A Rainy Day Chickpea and Spinach Curry

I think spring got it all wrong this year.

March was beautiful, soft, sunny and warm. Which we totally deserved after the big freeze of February.
So I figured the worst of it was over.

Well, April has had other ideas.


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Les Tomates Farcies

Every summer, gardens explode with an abundance of tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant and string beans. At the same time every food blog and cooking website explodes with an amazing variety of tomato, zucchini, eggplant and string bean recipes.

Boredom is not an option.

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Summer

sangria

cerises

sea and sand

Serrano

cerulean

Saint Félicien

cigales

salad

 sun (and siestas!)

 scarlet

succulent

shade

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Photo du Jour - Over the Canal du Midi

Blue skies and hot, sunny days. Summer in the Languedoc is here with a vengeance!

Too hot to turn on the oven except for the early morning. Summer recipes are keeping us cool.

melon and serrano ham
panzanella
cold tomato soup with basil
pasta with cherry tomato, garlic, arugula and feta cheese
fresh peach tart
cherry frozen yogurt

A glass or two of icy cold rosé doesn't hurt either. Pin It

Photo du Jour - Heirloom Tomatoes

It was a colorful CSA Basket this week. Pin It

Real

Sincere
Pure
Flawless
Genuine
Simple
True
Honest

Real



Tomato, Red Onion and Basil Salad



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le Jardin

tomatoes and nasturtiums



Never thought I would be one of those people who got excited about gardening. Well, maybe excited isn't exactly the right word. I should say I'm satisfied with gardening.
Surprisingly, the apricot tree produced some fruit. We thought it was sickly, so we're happy to report that it isn't. Apricot clafouti this weekend!
Everything else is coming along. S L O W L Y it seems, when I look at the size of the gigantic tomato plants in the other garden plots around ours. What are they using on their plants to get them to grow so freakin' huge?



little olives


baby grapes


the dog, passed out after running around the garden Pin It