Inspired by French cooking class to try this recipe.     My favorite part of France was walking around the markets that were in our neighborhood in Paris and also in the small towns we visited while in Provence. It is hard for me to imagine (except I was there and saw it) what it [...]

Just love those little sugar snap peas!     Are you old enough to remember your mother or grandmother sitting in a chair with an apron cupped in her lap and a bowl of peas. I remember my dad’s mother doing just that and she was in a rocking chair rocking away the afternoon shelling [...]

Pronounced chip-oh-LEE-nee. Another side dish to go with any meal. Not too many calories either.   These were great with the pulled pork sandwich and the cheese grits. You can’t see much of the onions in this picture but there were more onions than tomatoes in the dish.   While in Houston a few weeks [...]

Oh how I love mashed potatoes. Very good side dish for my roasted chicken.   I’m really trying to be good with this new year just beginning. I’ve been going to the gym 3 times a week and have drug out my Zumba tapes that I paid a fortune for and clumsily trying to do the [...]

Looking for a new carrot dish? Here it is.   Apricots and carrots compliment each other and look so pretty together.   Rainnnn, we finally got it yesterday and it lasted all day long.  I was stranded at the mall for an extra hour and while there discovered that to get the new iPhone I [...]