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!
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Pork tenderloin in mustard cream sauce minus the cream
The mustard sauce is perfect with the tenderloin as it keeps it really moist. Tenderloin being very lean would tend to get dry easily, so a short cooking time and a good sauce are required. I start by chopping about … Continue reading
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Tagged Dijon Mustard, dinner, food, mustard sauce, pork tenderloin, recipes, sauce moutarde
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Bison Bourguignon
This does not sound right, no bisons in the Bourgogne, that’s for sure! This bison meat stew though was better than any genuine boeuf bourguignon. I know you are already thinking Julia Child and all the trouble involved with cooking … Continue reading
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Tagged Bison, boeuf bourguignon, bourguignon, cooking, dinner, food, healthy stew, recipe, recipes
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Petits pois à la française
French for… green peas a la French! Green peas are a staple of British cuisine. Curiously enough, the French thought they should have their own way of cooking peas and serve them neither steamed nor mushed. This is what they … Continue reading
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Tagged butter peas, dinner, food, France, green peas, peas, petits pois, recipe, recipes
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Beurre Blanc sauce on Spring Salmon Steak
Tonight was Father’s Day dinner and we had wild Pacific Spring salmon, also called Chinook or King salmon. It was served with a sauce au beurre blanc, fresh peas, and Ravioles de Romans. Ravioles are a small herb ravioli from … Continue reading
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Tagged beurre blanc, chinook, cooking, dinner, food, France, king salmon, recipe, recipes, spring salmon
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Roasted Butternut squash
We seem to have had a cold snap with fierce winds here in Victoria and felt like a lamb roast dinner to warm up. One of the vegetables was a roasted butternut squash. I used to make this the traditional … Continue reading
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Tagged butternut, cooking, dinner, food, maple syrup, recipe, recipes, roasted squash, squash
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Morel cream sauce on Roast Chicken
In Ontario, we used to go Morel picking in the Ganaraska Forest and come back with baskets full of the delicious spring fungi. My luck has not been good here in BC, I have not found my own spots and … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken, cooking, dinner, food, morel, morel cream sauce, morels, recipe, recipes
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Stuffed orange peppers
This is an easy thing to make, it looks amazing, the ” but” being that it takes time to make. Mostly time to cook though, not a lot of work, so a pretty good menu choice. Most people will eat … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, dinner, easy, food, orange peppers, recipe, recipes, sausage, stuffed peppers
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Sweet salmon dinner in 15 minutes
Running late today and a million excuses for it. The best one is that I got a new PC and I am still setting it up, so bear with me. That does not count as a valid excuse for not … Continue reading
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Tagged dinner, food, main course, mango, orange peppers, recipe, recipes, salmon
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Lamb chops on the Grill
Any kind of lamb chops will work well, so long as they have about the same thickness. Remove most of the fat strips on the sides. One hour before cooking, prepare a paste with half a cup Maille Dijon mustard, … Continue reading
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Tagged bbq lamb, dinner, grill, lamb, lamb chops, Maille Dijon prepared mustard, que, recipes, rosemary
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