Healthy food, fresh ingredients, simple reci[es

Every Sunday I haul myself up the treacherous barn stairs to do the weekly photos – and check-up on mon mari’s work.

Herbs and spices, part II and Slow Roasted Leg of Lamb

Note: This is a reprint from Valentine's Day, 2008.

It was a busy week, as they all are, but with a bit more variety (and tragedy).

Spicy Sausage Ravioli, Chicken Spinach Ravioli

Risotto with Chicken Livers, Madeira and Sage

Carl Sagan once said: “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch you must first create the universe.

Those of you who have been meditating in a Tibetan monastery may have missed the fact that I recently had a recipe published in the Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook.

Did I ever tell you about the time I was chased out of a restaurant by a really pissed off Chinese chef brandishing his favorite, very large, very sharp, cleaver? I ran across this post when I was reorganizing the Recipe Index… Thought I'd share again….

I get three American magazines delivered to me here in France.

‘White chocolate is what’s left after you take the chocolate out of chocolate.

You may have liked Kermit the Frog, or Miss Piggy, but the only Muppet that ever interested me was Cookie Monster.

There are over 40 different types of dry-cured ham in the display case at my supermarket: Prosciutto from Italy, Serrano from Spain, Westphalian from Germany, Bayonne from France and a few dozen more better and lesser known varieties from all over Europe.