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: vegetarian
Refreshing Arugula Salad
This salad was prepared for a potluck and served after a multitude of delicious dishes. We thought that people would eat very little after the gourmet meal but, surprisingly, the digestive benefit of this salad was evident as soon as … Continue reading
Posted in Little help from my friends, Starter
Tagged aragula, arugula, arugula nutrition, arugula salad, vegetarian, very good recipes
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Roasted Yams à la Canadienne
You might think that yams are sweet enough, but… if you are Canadian or leave in Canada and have to go through the Canadian winter, you might think that you can’t get enough calories from vegetables alone to keep you … Continue reading
Posted in Vegetables
Tagged food, maple syrup, recipes, roasted yam, Vegetables, vegetarian, verygoodrecipe, yams
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Green Bell Peppers stuffed with Fava bean Tahini
It all started at For Good Measure, my local bulk store and a great place. I bought two cups of dried fava bean, because of a sudden craving for bean salad. I was very careful with the fava beans as … Continue reading
Posted in Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged bell pepper, Fava bean, food, for good measure, recipe, recipes, stuffed peppers, tahini, vegetarian, vegetarian peppers
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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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Soupe à la courge at aux Châtaignes served in a Pumpkin for Halloween
Madeleine Montabert lives in the medieval village of Crillon-le-Brave in Provence. She is the owner and chef of “Cooking in Provence”, a sophisticated small cooking school. There, in a morning, you can learn how to prepare a genuine French home-cooked … Continue reading
Gratin de Poireaux
This is a nice filling dish and my vegetarian guest tonight seem to love it, I had no left-overs. Pick your leeks well, only young leeks that do not have a woody core in the centre. The centre should be … Continue reading
Posted in Main Course, Side
Tagged cooking, food, gratin, gratin de poireaux, leek au gratin, leeks, poireaux, recipes, vegetarian
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