The butcher had a nice halved rabbit and the neighbours had brought us tomatoes from their harvest, so the combination seemed logic.
Guinea fowl with apples and cider, in a bag
A relatively easy recipe for fillet of guinea fowl with cider and apples, cooked in a bag in the oven. It almost cooks itself.
Free-range chicken in a casserole
There is free-range and free-range.. The poultry on sale at the butcher’s or in the supermarket may be labelled free-range but that does not mean they could roam about the farm as their ancestors. There are some poultry farmers around here with large barns where the birds can actually move around and are not squeezedRead More
Poached free-range chicken with nettles
Faced with a plump free-range chicken, I used this delicious recipe for slow poaching in a stock with nettles.
Pigeon aux petits pois – pigeon and peas
A simple version of a classic French dish with pigeon and peas.
Melva with garlic, ginger and soy sauce
At the fishmongers there was a “Melva”, a sturdy fish that looked like tuna but much smaller. I never saw one before. It is also called “false Bonito” as it is the same family as the Bonito but it bleeds more and has a more pronounced flavour. I took it and ended up with aRead More
Bird in a bag, guinea fowl with fresh garlic
A great and easy recipe for a succulent guinea fowl cooked in a bag with garlic and tomatoes.
Garlic and pepper sauce for roast lamb
The other day I had ordered a leg of milk-fed young lamb at the butcher’s for Easter, but he provided an older and heavier animal and I ended up with 2,5 kilos of meat.We decided to invite four people over for an impromptu Easter Sunday lunch.
Lemon jam, confiture de citron
An easy recipe for a great jam made from locally sourced untreated lemons.
Winter soup with lentils
There is nothing better than a soup to chase the winter cold and this beef and lentils soup does the trick very well.