musings of a traveller and food lover

Tuna Empanadillas with Tomato & Onion Salsa

I have been sorting out the new shelves. All the books and magazines that have travelled Greece, UK, Norway, back to UK to Greece and some of them were even on the other side of Atlantic are ...

….those angelic cakes

Saturday’s culinary adventure left my palate satisfied and my kitchen looking like a war zone. Just when I was about to tackle the mess, I wanted something sweet, lemony perhaps. This ...

Tropical Fruits

I took this photo when I was in Lombok, Indonesia. Pre digital days and my tiny Canon Ixus was stolen on that holiday. I have posted some photos on my photo blog…click here, basically ...

English Breakfast

For two Sundays in a row we have been having a calorific laden breakfast. Please calorie police stay away from my page because after days and days of eating 2% fat yogurt, organic muesli, ...

Ensaymada

Finally I baked my own ensaymada, the Filipino sweet bread that taste like brioche, that is topped with creamed butter and sugar. When I was growing up in a small town, we did not snack on ...

SALZBURGER MOZARTKUGEL

Just before lunch was finished Swiss Cheese said, don’t order desserts, we will have MOZARTKUGEL later. Mozartkugel? Well he said it’s a rounded chocolate but I wont say more so you can ...

Lunch in Salzburg, Austria

This post was written end of June 2005 and was placed on draft on my blogger account just before I left for France last summer. Since then I never had the chance to post this. I have been ...

Nutella Cup Cake Swirls

Sometime a month ago, I visited 80 Breakfasts and saw her truffle cupcakes ( she had truffle left over the Christmas past). She used a recipe she dug from Baking Sheet that has been adapted ...

Loukoumades (lou kou MAH des)

Loukoumades… the Greek pastry sometimes called HONEY PUFFS, HONEY BALLS, FRIED PUFFS. Whatever you call them, its one of my favourite Greek pastry.