French Grill Fandango
Dateline:Hot Springs, Virginia. Eileen and Betsy are back… with their LABOR DAY FRENCH GRILL FANDANGO “No one really cares that OUR objective is to cook our way through French Grill,” Eileen said. “Every day we got the question “Are we having the Camembert burger today?’ More about that later. We grilled ourselves to…well I don’t […]
Grilled Bacon Wrapped Goat Cheese on Salad
BACON WRAPPED GOAT CHEESE – This is a quintessential entrée in the French household. You can even purchase goat cheese already wrapped in bacon at the épicerie, grocery store. Typically, the cheeses are heated in the oven until they begin to melt and the bacon softens. I’ve stolen this idea and put the cheeses on […]
Herbes de Provence
Herbes de Provence is the nearly mythical blend of green herbs from the Mediterranean landscape called the garrigue. When you walk the rocky trails in this region, it’s impossible not to think of pizza baked in a wood-fired oven, grilled eggplant with goat cheese, lamb roasted over the coals. HERBS DE PROVENCE PEDIGREE – LABEL […]
Red Pepper Essence
Every autumn for the past three years has found me dicing snaky sweet peppers and cooking them slowly in extra-virgin olive oil. The result is a condiment that brightens everything it touches. It’s simple – just peppers and oil without the encumbrance of garlic or herb or other spice. Why? Because the peppers have a […]
Favorite Meal of the Day
What’s yours? I love them all of course, but breakfast is my favorite. There is something so fresh and new about it. I find it fresh, because my favorite consists of freshly baked bread, fresh and lightly salted butter, and fresh coffee which fills the downstairs with its toasty aroma. It is new because it […]
