Cooking recipes from "Thyme for Cooking" - page 144

Spinach Timbales with Fresh Tomato Basil Sauce, Holiday Cooking with Herbs

As a special Weekend herb Blogging Event, Kalyn, from Kalyn's Kitchen, is hosting Holiday Cooking With Herbs.

MOA - the Mall of America

Minneapolis used to be famous for its lakes, Minnesota being the ‘Land of 10,000 Lakes and Minneapolis having over a hundred of them in the metro area.

Le 14 Juillet, Bastille Day, and Summer Fruit Salad

Go directly to recipe Ten days after the Americans wave the Red, White and Blue to celebrate the 4th of July the French wave the Red, White and Blue to celebrate the 14th….

French Decorating

When we first talked about moving to France a friend warned us not to close the door when inside a room without taking careful note of positioning.

Carnac, Standing Stones & Vannes

We have been wanting to spend some time in Brittany forever, but, as it is so close, we never seem to get there.

Pickling the Harvest, Foods I can't find in France

One of the hardships those of us who live 'abroad' are assumed to endure is the lack of certain foods.

French Weddings

The streets and roads have been filled with honking cars and the night skies with fireworks lately.

Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Zucchini, Oh My! Using and Preserving the Harvest

After weeks of me fussing and fretting over it, the potager (vegetable garden) has finally started to produce.

The Hot Pink Shower

In French Decorating I described our 3 little pink bathroom 'rooms' before mon mari attacked them with his brand new sledge hammer.

Courgette (Zucchini): Go forth and be fruitful!

Could there have been a typo in the biblical story about the loaves and fishes? A word translated with the wrong nuance? If a food was going to multiply to feed the masses surely it was a zucchini, not a fish.

Irish Soda Bread, a Reward for Being a Good Geek!

Go directly to recipe Thursday I had a memory error on my computer (don't you just hate those things?).

Biking in the Venise Verte...and more Cucumber Salad

First the cucumbers: They are worse than the zucchini! They are dividing and cloning overnight! We're eating as fast as we can! What is it with the cucurbits (cucumber, zucchini, cornichons, squash, melon)? They produce like crazy, cross pollinate.

Shrimp on Avocado Cream - a knife and fork sandwich...

Go directly to recipe I don't cook for lunch.

Lawn Ornaments, aka: Garden Decorating....a French Perspective

On the drive to my mother's house in Wisconsin from Minneapolis there is always one house/yard that causes me to do a double-take.

Courgette?? Zucchini?? Whatever...they're winning....

Go directly to recipe Everyday I go down to the garden and pick all of the long, green things…and everyday there are still more to pick! I've fixed them in every way known to man (and woman), cold, hot, raw, cooked, shredded, cubed, sliced, sauced,.