Vegetables, precipitation, and an arachnid

We made another batch of roasted vegetables yesterday, using a parsnip — un panais [pah-NAY] — and a big turnip un navet [nah-VAY] — left over from the first roasted vegetables we made a few days ago. This time I used the air fryer to cook the vegetables and I think they were better than the batch I made in the oven. Those were delicious, though, and the leftovers from them went into a delicious soup a couple of days ago.

This morning when I got up and went downstairs to the kitchen to make a pot of tea, look what I saw on the wall over the stove (below).

Légumes rôtis au four [2]

Before roasting them in the oven, we cut the winter vegetables into approximate one-inch cubes, tossed them in a small amount of olive oil, and seasoned them with black pepper, allspice, and herbs (thyme, bay leaves, and oregano).Toward the end of the cooking time (45 minutes, we added a few chicken tenderloins and drizzled some honey over everything.

C'est quoi qu'on mange à midi ?

Des légumes. Je parle de légumes d'hiver — des navets, des panais,  des oignons, de l'ail,
 des pommes de terre, une patate douce, et une carotte. On va les faire rôtir au four
avec de l'huile d'olive et des fines herbes, et peut-être un peu de miel et de poulet.

Bon appétit...

Now, and in 1989

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I don't often post pictures of myself. This blog isn't so much about me as it is about France. Anyway, on the left above is me today. On the right is me in a photo that was taken in 1989. I was 40 years old.

Walt and I had left Paris (where we met) in 1982 to go live and find jobs in Washington DC. For a variety of reasons, we ended up leaving DC for San Francisco in 1986. In 1989, I was working as managing editor of a computer magazine in San Francisco, and Walt was in graduate school at Berkeley.

In 2003, after 18 years there, we left California for Saint-Aignan, in the Loire Valley in France. We're still here.