Recent content by Franca

I also suffer from mild depression. Some days I really have to kick myself in the rear to get anything done. Here's hoping tomorrow is a great day for everyone!

We get both here. In fact, we get the yellow ones (my favorite), medium orange ones where the outside is really quite similar to the yellow ones, and very dark orange ones where the exterior can be almost purple. Heck, I don't know - maybe the almost purple ones are a fourth variety, LOL. But to...

Ooh, thanks! I always bake ours, but you've given me something new to try. Those sound great!

Yes, Toots, we are really going to the Le Mans race! It will be my fourth time, and my husband has been one more time than I have. My waistline is always a tribute to the good food and wine (oh my gosh, the cheese) when I return home.... I never quite shed the pounds I gained last year and here...

You are right - that is an absolutely wonderful restaurant. We ate there three years ago and have been trying to get back to it ever since! The trouble is that it's closed on Sundays and Mondays, which tend to be the days of the week we have a chance to escape to the old town. The past two years...

Cool - thanks for all the leads. Regarding tourists, I don't have a problem with the individual tourist but I'm not all that fond of large crowds, be they tourists or locals for that matter! I'll be seeing plenty of crowds at the race track and would rather not encounter "beaucoup du monde" on...

Looks lovely! Thank you! They're on my list. I'm hoping places aren't all booked up already....

Au Secours! My husband and I are going to France on business in June (the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race, for those who don't know us). I have a "significant" birthday coming up in July and we thought we would use our 6 days off between qualifying and the race to do something really fun. Ideally...

Right this very moment I'm drinking rooibos tea. ;) Earlier I had a Tsingtao beer. Your "GSM" sounds lovely, kitchenelf. Red wines are my favorite, but my husband prefers to spend less than $8.00/bottle on "everyday" table wines so if I want something nicer I have to give it to him for...

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That's pretty much what I do. Although I don't do any deep frying. I can throw a steak onto a naked sizzling hot cast iron pan but I'm too wimpy to deep fry. :rolleyes: Anyway, I keep ordinary EVOO (Star), somewhat tastier EVOO (Colavita) and Canola oil around. (We are occasionally gifted with...

I can't imagine using anything but a gas stove. Have been forced to cook on electric stoves on occasion and they drive me nuts because they don't respond instantly the way gas does and don't have the same ability to fine-tune just the right amount of heat. I remember having to turn on two...

Still working on it ... please do have a look at my Aioli update message in this thread and let me know if anything comes to mind after you read the latest news.... :ohmy:

The recipe said to use it up within three days, but I have to think it might keep a bit longer than that. ?? I hope so because I'm not sure I can use all of mine up quite that fast. Which brings up another question: I made the aioli for lamb panini sandwiches - fabulous - but we're out of the...

Aioli Update Well, I'm still not 100% what is going on with aioli and me. I tried again tonight, and used my blender. It's possible I still didn't get the egg yolk mixture adequately beaten before I started adding the oil ... but I dunno. However, on another BB I got instructions for "rescuing"...