Healthy, French, Home-cooking, always fresh, (almost) no cream required!
This is about simple cooking for my kids away from home, family and friends and friends of friends. Not quite recipes, just inspiration.Often, no exact quantities, certainly no scientific potions, but a bit of magic and lots of love! and you could always ask for more details.
Share my love of cooking, enjoy the Pacific West Coast bounty and help me pass along the French Heritage from my Grand-mothers and my Dad who taught me.Salt and Pepper
Even when I don't say so, use Baleine sea-salt and fresh ground pepper from your Peugeot pepper mill, goes without saying!
Category Archives: Lunch
Orange Recipes for Halloween Dinner
https://thecookingfrogblog.com/2011/10/30/halloween-squash-or-pumpkin-au-gratin/ https://thecookingfrogblog.com/2010/05/06/carrot-salad-summer-crudite-may6-2010/ https://thecookingfrogblog.com/2011/01/31/roasted-yams-a-la-canadienne/ https://thecookingfrogblog.com/2010/11/02/soupe-a-la-courge-at-aux-chataignes-served-in-a-pumpkin/ https://thecookingfrogblog.com/2010/06/12/stuffed-orange-peppers/ https://thecookingfrogblog.com/2010/06/16/roasted-butternut-squash/ https://thecookingfrogblog.com/2011/03/31/blood-orange-tart-with-pistachios/
Posted in Appetizer, Dessert, Lunch, Main Course, Side, Soup, Starter, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged food, halloween recipe, orange, recipes, squash, verygoodrecipes
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Black bean salad to replenish your magnesium!
Black beans are very rich in magnesium, a very beneficial mineral and they make a delicious warm salad in about five minutes. It is a wonderful menu item on a day when you are home-bound by a snow blizzard as … Continue reading
Posted in Lunch, Side, Vegetarian
Tagged black bean magnesium, black bean salad, black beans, canned beans, cider vinegar, very good recipe, warm salad
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Stuff the pork loin to take on a picnic!
I don’t know what got into me when I offered to give a pound of chanterelles to all the friends who would help me with a pledge for The Run For The Cure, coming up October 2nd. But It is … Continue reading
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Tagged chanterelles, food, pork loin roast, recipe, recipes, run for the cure, stuffed pork loin, stuffing pork, verygoodrecipe
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Peppers of all colours
The Bell peppers are really sweet right now. They are sweetest in July/August when they can fully ripen before harvest. The local red, orange and yellow peppers are the sweetest of all and they also contain the most vitamin C, … Continue reading
Posted in Lunch, Main Course, Vegetables
Tagged bacon, bell pepper, cooking, food, green pepper, orange pepper, recipes, red pepper
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Soupe de moules aux légumes (mussels in vegetable soup)
Months including an “R” is the best time to eat shell fish, the saying goes. This is not only a safety recommendation, the hot months have no “R”, but also a matter of taste. The colder the water, the better … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Lunch, Main Course, Soup
Tagged food, French mussels recipe, mussel soup, mussels in sauce, recipe, recipes, soupe de moules
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Quiche with spinach
There is a good idea for a quickly prepared impromptu lunch. Pretty much your regular “quiche lorraine” recipe with added spinach. We had that today with a fresh beet salad on the side. It was a perfect winter lunch. For … Continue reading
The green vegetarian quiche
This is a smooth quiche and it does turn out a nice green colour. All the ingredients can be stored in advance which is nice if you are renting a place which is far from grocery stores. This is also a … Continue reading
Posted in Lunch, Main Course, Vegetarian
Tagged artichoke quiche, food, leftover salmon, quiche, recipes, salmon quiche, spinach quiche, vegetarian quiche
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Ceviche de Pescado
This is a most refreshing lunch on a hot day, I just had this in Barra de Navidad, a small town on the Pacific Coast of Mexico just North of Manzanillo. We sat right on the sand beach, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged ceviche, ceviche de pescado, food, marinated fish, mexican recipe, recipes, sierra fish
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Chanterelle and onion tart, could be my best chanterelle recipe? tell me!
Saturday November 6 was probably the last good day to pick chanterelles, as the heavy rain wants to turn them into mushy fungi. The rain, however, did not stop Michel, Dunnery, Jules (the mushroom sniffing Jack Russel) and … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Lunch, Vegetarian
Tagged chanterelle tart, cooking, food, onion chanterelles tart, recipes, vegetarian
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Chanterelle Omelette
It was quite foggy and it rained a lot yesterday, but it was not a bad day to go mushroom picking on Vancouver Island. My friend Sharon and I covered miles and miles trying to identify new picking grounds without … Continue reading
Posted in Lunch, Main Course
Tagged Chanterelle, chanterelle omelette, chanterelles, cooking, food, mushroom, omelette, recipe, recipes, white chanterelle, wild mushroom
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Ratatouille quiche
With all the fall vegetables so plentiful at the farmers market, I made a huge amount of Ratatouille and of course, I had extra I saved for a quiche and a nice lunch. Click on ratatouille for the link to … Continue reading
Posted in Lunch, Starter
Tagged cooking, eggplant, food, peppers, ratatouille, ratatouille quiche, recipe, recipes, zuchini
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Chanterelle Quiche
I have been picking again last week-end and found a few chanterelles. It was too dry up until now and they were small and scarce, the good thing being that the flavor is very intense. I decided to make a … Continue reading
Posted in Lunch, Main Course
Tagged chanterelle quiche, chanterelles, food, quiche, quiche aux chanterelles, recipe, recipes
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Tarte aux poireaux
Leeks are so tasty and so healthy that, in France, cooks almost always add one or more leeks to vegetable soup. As a filling for the tart, they have an intense flavor and are a nice way to get all … Continue reading
Macédoine de légumes or Russian Salad
The question is : have you eaten your seven vegetables today? The answer is likely negative unless you had Macédoine de légumes for lunch. Let me explain, the name comes from Macedonia, the country formed by a bunch of smaller … Continue reading
Posted in Lunch, Vegetables
Tagged carrot, cooking, corn, food, green bean, lunch, macédoine de légumes, mayonnaise, nutirtion, peas, recipe, recipes, turnip
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Onion Quiche (really tarte à l’oignon)
I got help today. When my husband makes apple pie, there is always enough pastry left for a small quiche for lunch the next day. The dish is only 8 inches in diameter and the amounts given below for the … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, food, lunch, onion, onion quiche, onion tart, quiche, recipe, recipes, tarte a l oignon
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Beet and potato salad
This salad makes a really nice lunch and may be prepared in advance. It does take a long time to cook beets though, even in the pressure cooker, so I would advise selecting small beets of even size rather than … Continue reading
Posted in Lunch, Starter
Tagged beet salad, beets, cooking, food, french, lunch, nutritious, recipe, recipes, tuna
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Belgian Endive Salad à la Grenobloise
This is a nice change for a salad, it is easy to make in advance and bring along as a potluck contribution. All the ingredients are gathered in a large salad bowl and the dressing is added at the last … Continue reading
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Tagged belgian endive, food, gruyere, recipe, recipes, walnut
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