musings of a traveller and food lover

Toad in the hole …. Done Steve’s way!

I was telling an American friend that I I did not have to cook the crew’s meal that day as we were all given the day off after the boss left. But I did mention that we had a very ...

breakfast at the inn at tilton place

There was something beautiful about the name , “Jensen Beach”. I first heard about the place from my ex-captain when he attended a wedding there last year and it stuck in my mind since ...

MITseaAH’s Apple Pie

It all started asking Stephen suggestions what to bake. Of all crew mates he is pretty much involved with food ideas what to feed to the crew. Perhaps because he loves food and cooking ...

a birthday celebration… lemon pancake cake

For weeks I racked up ideas what cake it should be… …. he does not like frosting so there goes the wicked chocolate cake I had in mind layered with cream frosting.I even dreaded ...

A Pancake Feast

Ghene Snowdon…. “oh dear me. Sha, take a photo before passing it to your crewmates. That way you have something to blog about” This post is long overdue, today is already ...

exquisite pleasures… madeleines

I wanted to do something special to mark this special date…. who would have thought that five years ago just around the holidays I was digging for some recipes that I stumbled to a ...

Moments…

While we were in the main port of Ischia the crew went out for dinner with the kids…

comforts of home…cassava macapuno cake

Home is where my kitchen is, where I can create what ever I want to try. The kitchen where I would spend hours pouring into cookbooks, or sitting with close friends having a pot of tea and ...