Food, cooking, and travel
I love mussels. My love affair with mussels began in Paris with my first serving of moules et frites, which is basically a pail of steamed mussels accompanied by a small bowl of french fries (although we think of french fries as American, the first word …
So this is a follow up to Monday’s post about getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day. I finally settled for cockles & mussels steamed in a cider and bacon broth and it was delicious. I’m a sucker for mussels anyway but tasting them cooked with cider and …
My ethnic heritage is more Irish than anything else but I’ve always had mixed feelings about St. Patrick’s Day. In Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is a holy day of obligation and I can’t speak to how the Irish view St. Patrick or his day. In …