A simple and straightforward Summer dish. We buy fresh green beans (haricots verts) at a grower nearby, and I just blanch them for later use in salads or other.
Wonton are Chinese filled dumplings to use in a soup or steamed, either alone or part of a dim-sum assortment.
This is a simple recipe with shrimps, vegetables and herbs.
At the end of the summer we have a good harvest of vegetables in our village and neighbours brought me crates of tomatoes and zucchini. I stuffed them and baked them in the oven.
The farmers where we buy vegetables had returned from a short week off to visit their family and when they re-opened there were a lot of fresh new products among which several kinds of beans. Borlotti beans look nice with their purple etchings on a white background. Hariciot coco Borlotti in French, they can be used in stews and dried for later use in winter. […]
A quick recipe for a healthy vegetable side dish of spinach and apples.
A simple version of a classic French dish with pigeon and peas.
On the farmer’s market here in Mirepoix, I found fresh kale just had to take it home. Kale, chou frisé, is called boerenkool and the Dutch eat it as a healthy and cheap vegetable in winter.
I am trying out a new online fresh retailer, Tauziet et Co, that allows me to buy goods direct from the producer in southwest France. There is plenty available around here, but not everything. The more you order the smaller the transport fee, so when I do order it is a full carton. That is how two rabbit legs ended up in my freezer. I […]
One Monday morning on our weekly farmers’ market in Mirepoix, the poultry lady had chicken livers. Not the soggy reddish things in a plastic container at the super market – which are more than decent – but, well, big livers. The point is that most “chicken” killed and sold are in fact still chicklets – boiler, broiler, pullet, roaster – that hardly reach one year […]
At a market nearby I found a man selling fresh fish from his small fish farm in the mountains, using clean spring water, as many fish would prefer. He used a net to catch the fish from plastic containers on the back of his car. I prepared the fish in the simplest possible fashion to appreciate the taste and presented it on a bed of […]