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!
Tag Archives: soup
Cream or not Cream of Wild Mushroom Soup
Saturday, I picked wild white chanterelles in the pouring rain and tonight the forecast is warning against frost. The Indian Fall is not that hot this year and I am making mushroom soup to warm up. The best way to … Continue reading
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Tagged chanterelles, chanterelles soup, food, mushroom, mushroom soup, recipes, soup, verygoodrecipe
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Gratinée Lyonnaise sounds much better than just onion soup
This is probably the best comfort food on a cold day, a great way to stave off the anxiety of a looming dark and stormy night, and assurance to bring rosy cheeks and smiles to all. Most of the time, … Continue reading
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Tagged beaujolais, food, Gratinee, gratinee lyonnaise, gruyere, Le Creuset, onion soup, recipe, recipes, soup, soupe a l oignon, verygoodrecipe
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Cauliflower Soup in less than 10 minutes
This is a light soup, no cream! Local cauliflower is at every vegetable stand right now, it is a good time to enjoy it really fresh. This recipe is one of the most simple soups to make and is a … Continue reading
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Tagged cauliflower, cauliflower soup, food, nutrition, potage chou-fleur, quick soup, recipe, recipes, soup
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Penny Pierce’s cold squash and zucchini soup
This recipe and pictures were sent by Penny Pierce from Lakefield Ontario. The vegetables are from her own garden. Here is what she did: “I used one green zucchini (this light green variety is nice and buttery) and the yellow … Continue reading
Posted in Little help from my friends, Soup, Vegetarian
Tagged cold soup, food, recipe, recipes, soup, squash soup, zuchini soup
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Gazpacho
It is so hot in Spain in the summer that it is almost impossible to eat solid food at lunch time. The best thing to do is to have a refreshing Gaspacho before the siesta, a light tasty cold soup … Continue reading
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Tagged cold soup, food, gaspacho, gazpacho, recipe, recipes, ripe tomatoes, soup
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Duck noodle soup
No one is sick but I don’t like freezing much, so after the duck, comes the soup. I still had both carcasses, the wings, and necks so I cooked them in the pressure cooker with a clove garlic … Continue reading
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Tagged duck soup, food, health, nutrition, recipe, recipes, soup, udon noodle
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Wild Stinging Nettle Soup
First of course is getting to the country to pick your own nettles*. They don’t appear at the market although they are a great “100 mile radius” wild food for most of us. Beware not to pick road side where … Continue reading
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Tagged nettles, pressure cooker, soup, stinging nettles, wild nettles
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