I think mallards are beautiful. The male mallard with its green and blue shiny bits that is. The poor lady mallard is a bit drab. But they look like wonderful mums calmly floating around with the tiny ducklings in a tight little cloud behind them. There is something sympathetic about these birds although I read somewhere about their mating habits. Not very sympathetic,...
T'is the season to eat soup! Not that I say no to a succulent soup any season. This Provençal tomato soup is particularly great for any season, kind of fresh and light but creamy and warming all at once. And very inexpensive. It's one of my mother's recipes. Or probably not my mother's originally, but something she found in a magazine or in an...
Khoresh bademjan or Khoresht or Khoresh-e bademjan (my Farsi is not great - but I can say "thank you" which is "mersi" - ok that's a bit easy - and "khubi" which is "whattup?") eggplant and tomato stew is a traditional Persian dish that can be made with chicken, lamb or beef. It's a comforting and satisfying dish with lots of tasty sauce...
This beautiful venison with red wine served with buttery and herby gnocchi was our elegant Sunday dinner to celebrate our new dining table. Husband has for a long time now been complaining that our kitchen table is too small. The size of the table was really not the root of the problem I think. Table was the right size, the problem was the...
I made this fantastic Greek inspired one pot marvel for husband as an "Isn't it nice to have your lovely wife back" dinner last night. He agreed that it was nice and wife indeed is lovely. After two helpings he declared that "This food is very good". It is a pretty easy dish to prepare and full of taste with lemon and fresh...
