Desperate Anglo Housewives : Bordeaux > she's back and dating in her 50s

more salad ideas... Freezing cold mid-July. As the east coast of the USA suffers a major heat-wave France has pulled out its Winter woolies.  My thermometer has dropped down to 14°! Actually feel more like a plate of steaming boeuf bourguignon but here is another salad idea, as promised. I remember the first time I ate a warm salad...baby spinach leaves tossed around in a hold pan, thrown onto a garlicky dressing, topped off with hot hot lardons and their pan juices. I LOVED it! Although salads are a must for we desperateanglohousewives, the cold weather is making my body call out for something a little more comforting than a lettuce leaf. Here is an easy, but healthy, warm salad with a heart. I use Ravioli du Daphiné -  tiny, exquisite, flavour-bursting ravioli stuffed with fresh parsley and cheese.  You can find these in the gourmet fridge in most supermarkets. They are a real bind to work with as they come in "sheets"..to separate, rub your hands in fl

In search of freshness, ranting! Lately, this DesperateAngloHousewife has become rather despondent at the lack of decent salads. I am finding salads either totally lacking originality, misrepresentative of their promised content, limp with age or dripping and greasy, floating around in industrial vinaigrettes. I am on the warpath! Like alot of other desperateanglohousewives, I kid myself into thinking that ordering salads will be a great way to induce nymph-like slimness. I would of course do better by spending more money on scarey support knickers and togs with inner panelling!! Too many salads are full of "bad" ingredients...sweet corn,pre-cooked potato chunks,croutons, high salt content charcuterie, etc -  all of which have the cunning habit of sliding down to thighs and waistelines.  Other ingredients can be simply cast as "sad"....industrial vinaigrettes, processed cheeses, precooked saline-injected chicken breast, nasty shrivelled bacon-bits

Anyone for pigeon pie? My girlie love of pigeons and other flying litter flew out the window years ago when I was viciously shat upon by a flock of oncoming pigeons... Scenario : 20 year old student walking up a romantic cobblestoned street in Lausanne. Flock of pigeons ahead, successful dive-bomb of unsuspecting antipodean tourist! Revolting. I used to love the electric repulse-pigeon cables at the Chamber of Commerce in Bordeaux.  There was no other daily highlight quite like watching an incoming "flying rat" attempt landing on the window ledge only to be propelled off via electric shock. Wonderful! Gotta give the French some credit for this system for it has certainly got rid of thousands of inner-city pigeons here. A much quicker system than the anglo-saxon "humane" version of pigeon food injected with contraception. If you think I am absolutely rotten, just remember that pigeons are not only dangerous to certain endangered wild birds and poultr