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: thanksgiving dinner
Thanksgiving Dinner with all the trimmings, Caramelized Parsnip and Carrot fries
For some curious reason, which I did not figure out, my Canadian family’s Thanksgiving dinner was hosted today, Saturday, in prime Haliburton cottage country in a solid wood chalet by chilly Lake Kushog (believe me, I actually had a short … Continue reading
Posted in Little help from my friends
Tagged food, parsnip, parsnip fries, recipes, thanksgiving dinner, trimmings, turkey, verygoodrecipe
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Brussel sprouts that you will love! and so green!
Brussel sprouts are not to everyone’s taste and that’s because, most of the time, they are not cooked properly,and are reduced to a mushy, smelly, yellow or even brown, horrible food instead of a bright green, delicious vegetable. Right now, … Continue reading
Posted in Side, Vegetables
Tagged brussel sprouts, chou de bruxelles, food, recipes, thanksgiving dinner, thanksgiving vegetable
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Six root vegetable gratin
Thanksgiving dinner is coming up soon and although mashed potatoes are always high on the request list, the root vegetable gratin would be a seasonal dish that would go very well along with a turkey. It requires no work when … Continue reading
Posted in Vegetables
Tagged Celery root, cooking, food, gratin, parsnip, recipe, recipes, root vegetable, thanksgiving dinner, turnip, yam
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