While winter lingers still in the markets- roots, cabbages and bulbs, this clash of orange and green met me at the entrance to the petit marche aux Chat' D'Oc. It lifted my spirits enough to make a simple salad with frisee served with artichauts dressed in an zesty orange vinaigrette.
Cranes. Colors. And Shapes. Kitchen inspiration comes in all forms. But most often I am drawn by the natural world outside my galley window. Like those wild cranes flying overhead, I now hunt for spring along the garden paths and plan a Spring Green Soup and Sauce Vernal for tomorrow's Market=Table cooking class. Although we use the French Kitchen at Camont for classes, I cook in this little floating test kitchen- just one of a barge queen's great delights.
"Arrrh, matey. Burnt the soup? Throw it overboard to the fishes
and walk the plank to the pantry!" Captain Kate.
The sausage sitting on your counter looks simply divine. The plain simple good sausages of your region keep coming back to mind. I loved them, Kate.
ReplyDeleteone of the secrets of my mother-in-laws famous minestrone, was the just burned Soffritto which gave the soup a non-so-che!
ReplyDeleteI pass this little trick on to my students, to give the flavor of a Tuscan mother's cooking.
No plank for her!
First I've seen of the new galley! Looking svelte!
ReplyDeleteLove Jo