musings of a traveller and food lover

My Feet Itching to Go

Last month I had a call from a French Captain for a job offer cooking aboard a 28m yacht, newly built and the home port will be South of France. After a week of contemplating about the offer ...

Lasang Pinoy 8 Kusinang Bulilit part 2

I have learnt many about cooking. A friend of my mum named Shalimar has taught me cooking, baking etc. The first time that I try to bake was chocolate fudge, it wasn’t really difficult for ...

Menudo ~ Lasang Pinoy # 8

When I was young, cooking was an obligation. There were times when I just hated it. I was told off a few many times for either over cooking or undercooking the rice. Those were the times ...

Can I have extra chilli?

Oh that’s the Swiss Cheese enjoying his soup (can’t remember what it was but am sure that’s with shrimps). Taken in Singapore after an awful torrential rain that left us ...

…tender juicy tasty

Ok Filipino readers of this page…can you still remember the tune of the advert of Purefoods hotdogs? Well, when I picked up those mangoes on my previous post, the lady was unpacking ...

Mango Fool

Stop Baking!!! Those are the words that came out from Swiss Cheese mouth while we were having lunch on baked macaroni. When I arrived from Germany last Tuesday, I went to an auto mode of ...

Cotton Candy

What happens if you heat and spin sugar into thin threads? Cotton candy… But where is the cotton? Guess what they call cotton candy here in Greece?

creme de yaourt aux fraises SHF 17

Well Andrew of Spitton Extra our host this month’s for the 17th edition of Sugar High Friday wrote… Encompassed by the Dairy theme we are looking at milk, cream, yogurts and ...