One of the reasons why Louisa and I created the blogging challenge – Four Seasons Food – was because we both enjoy eating seasonally and find the diverse dishes that you naturally lean towards making depending on the time of year intriguing. A joy of Spring for me is that I once again start to …
Layered Chicken & Avocado Salad with Lime & Coriander Read More »
April – and the subject at the heart of this months challenge – glorious, fresh, healthy, vibrant vegetables! I feel good just writing that. It’s somewhat cleansing after the rather heavier food of Winter. Living here in Gascony, much of the local cuisine is based around meat. Not that I am complaining as they do …
Four Seasons Food April Round Up – Celebrating Vegetables Read More »
This is a happy plate of food. There is something about the colours and all the spirally noodles intertwining on the plate, speckled with dots of red, black and green that makes you feel cheerful. And it smells pretty fantastic too! I must tell you I am a little in love with my Vegetable Spiralizer. …
Grilled Chicken with Vegetable Noodles, Tomatoes, Olives, Basil & Feta Read More »
One of my favourite childhood dishes from Sweden is something called ‘Pyttipanna’ – a dish usually made with left overs that basically translates as ‘little bits in a pan’. Cubes of potato, fried up with some leftover meat and pretty much whatever you have to hand! Wonderful crowned with a fried egg. I love it’s …
Pyttipanna aux Coeur de Canard or Duck Heart Hash! Read More »
I have been planning on cooking up some Oeufs en Cocotte for the blog for a little while now. It’s a dish that I love, perfect for a swish breakfast or even a light supper. Gooey, oozy eggs, baked with some cream, eaten with a spoon and lots of lovely fresh bread. I have made …
Spring has most certainly sprung! Fragrant blossom is on the trees, daffodils are in bloom and the Sun is shining a whole happy lot more. April is a good month to start planting things if you have the time and space. Planning what to grow this year in my vegetable patch has been done and …
Most weeks I fastidiously plan my meals and head out to the shops armed with a detailed shopping list from which I try not to deviate. It saves money and it stops me dithering over what to eat in the evenings. But lately I have found I have become a bit disorganised. I am going …
Some of you may or may not know that in a previous lifetime, before I came to live in SW France, a land of beautiful countryside, glorious Summers and relative isolation, I lived and worked in the heart of London. In fact, my job was in Camden town, utterly vibrant, eclectic and full of character…(s)! …
Smoked Haddock, Poached Egg & Cheesy Veggies with a Twist! Read More »
February – the month of love with Valentines Day smack in the middle of it! And so of course the theme for Four Seasons Food had to be ‘Food From the Heart’. But in all honesty, this was a super easy theme to participate in as I think all food you make should really be …
February Four Seasons Food Round Up – Food From The Heart Read More »
I know I am a bit late but never mind! This recipe was born as I was contemplating what might make a romantic meal for Valentines day…the usual things sprung to mind: oysters, fillet steak, lobster, caviar, champagne. All of which seemed somewhat clichéd and also expensive! It occurred to me that duck hearts, (popular …
