Belated: ingredient of the month : apples!
Apologies for forgetting to post this some time ago, but October’s Ingredient of the Month is most definitely apples! They are in the prime of…
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Lazy Sunday
…. means eating creme de marrons with a spoon and contemplating what to do with my bagful of fresh chestnuts. Happy Sunday, everybody! ETA: Have…
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Spicy Vietnamese chicken noodle soup
I did eventually make it back from France and one of the first things I did was make the stock for this week’s French Fridays…
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Cassoulet, part deux
Improvisation is the mother of cooking invention. Earlier this week, I was challenged to make an unexpected, relatively fast dinner given about 10 minutes to…
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Breadless Italian sandwich
I like to call this the perfect breadless Italian sandwich. This dish combines three things I love: Tomatoes (cherry, about a dozen) Cheese (sheep’s milk,…
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Market salad & French cooking
The French general strike means that I am stuck in France, but I think we can all agree that there are worse places to be! The…
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Experiments with spice box(ing)
Thanks, everyone, for indulging me during my month of crazy travels. S&H will now be up to normal operating speed! One of the first things…
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Patty pans with ground mustard and oyster sauce
Patty pans (a small type of summer squash, though they can grow to be quite large!) are almost embarrassingly underused in my kitchen! I used…
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Supper club: remix
For Supper Club: International remix edition we wanted to take each dish and make it a spin on a classic. The menu, managed by this…
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Simple cassoulet
Sadly my obsession with cassoulet, which started a few years ago, predates this blog. I think it was two Christmases ago that I decided I…
