It’s sour cherry time - or rather, sour cherries are just over here in the Virginia Piedmont. A kind cherry tree owner offered me their tree to pick, and I gratefully enjoyed the privilege. But as the garden is going gangbusters (with planting, harvesting, cleaning and maintaining - ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!!), I have [...]
Read More..>>We eat plenty of fast food here - especially for lunch. Don’t believe me? well… take a look at the picture of one of our not unusual lunches.
Green salad from the garden (Pick early in the morning, wash, dry, refrigerate, ready to go in seconds) with hard boiled eggs from the hen house (hard boil, [...]
Read More..>>Roasting a whole lamb in the spring is the epitome of the outdoor party (although a whole pig comes pretty close too).
We just did that this week-end for the benefit dinner organized by Flavor Magazine to benefit the Rappahannock Food Pantry.
I had never eaten homemade sauerkraut until I started to make it last year.
I can’t say that I really like the store-bought canned stuff - but I really like a Reuben sandwich, and you do need sauerkraut for that.
In my quest for more local homegrown or homemade food and in learning new (to me) [...]
Read More..>>I have to confess that I do not have the proper respect for Thanksgiving.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy that food-centric holiday. It’s just that - not having grown with it - I am not enough imbued with its traditions, and I am trying to make it… well… gasp! too… French. You see, many of [...]
La Cigale, ayant chanté
Tout l’été,
Se trouva fort dépourvue
Quand la bise fut venue. *
Jean de LA FONTAINE (La Cigale et La Fourmi)
While I don’t think you have to toil the entire summer to put some food by, this [...]
Read More..>>Summer has been cooler here than in prior years. So while tomatoes are really just starting to ripen and yield - finally!!!! - for real (a good 2 weeks past my usual tomato target date though), cabbage, kale (kale!!! in July! edible!) and lettuce greens are doing just well. On the other hand, the [...]
Read More..>>Purslane: I call it a nutritious easy to grow crunchy little green (now officially renamed par moi a “super gourmet green” !). Add it to green salads, or - my favorite - to potato salad. Other people like it too: El - of course! (go to this post for a picture … if you need [...]
Read More..>>A plant of our hedgerows and abandoned fields that are being reconquered by the forest, the elder favors the sides of ditches and embankments - especially those with a bit of shade. Oh, it grows well enough in full sun, but it seems to appreciate the extra moisture that accumulates in ditches.
Elder is a plant [...]
That’s “Brittany” as in “French Brittany” the westernmost maritime province of France.
Following my recent post on making Petits Pots de Yogurt With Strawberry Compote, Paula and Mary both asked about the golden cookie pictured next to the yogurt, and would I please provide the recipe?
Glad you ask.
The cookie is called Galette Bretonne in French and [...]
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