Teurgoule (Norman Rice Pudding)
What is the matter with Mary Jane? She's crying with all her might and main, And she won't eat her dinner - rice pudding again - What is the matter with Mary Jane? From ‘Rice [...]
Ranch Dressing Chez Moi
Living abroad for an extended period of time inevitably means missing—and craving—many foods you once took for granted. Many wouldn’t even make your top ten list of favorite [...]
Ballymaloe’s Irish Soda Bread
If there is one thing you should make (or learn to make) for Saint Patrick’s Day, it is Irish Soda Bread. In fact, you should make (or learn to make) Irish soda bread, period [...]
Frisée Salad with Lardons
If you've had one, is there anything better than a salade frisée aux lardons – the French bistro classic that’s a tangle of frisée lettuce tossed with bacon (lardons), shallo [...]
Green Rhubarb Lattice Pie
As I do my best to get through the hungry gap, I’ve been digging into my freezer to see what treasures I stashed there last summer. And….score!! Two pounds of frozen rhubarb [...]
Why is my rhubarb green?
I will never dispute the superior quality of the rhubarb I buy from *my* vegetable stand at the farmers’ market in Saint-Malo, but I’ve always found its color disappointing. [...]
Harissa-Spiked (Sunshine) Squash Soup
In Ireland and the British Isles, they call this time of year ‘the hungry gap’ –those turning-point weeks when winter vegetables have passed their prime but spring produce ha [...]
Homemade Ginger Beer
Two ginger beer bottles. On the right, a heavy, well-worn, barnacled specimen dredged from the deep off Saint-Malo... a little research showed to be a ginger beer bottle from [...]
