musings of a traveller and food lover

FOOD

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 ...

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 ...

vermicelle with sauteed pumpkins

Having left France a month ago, I found myself back in Florida, renting an apartment and looking for work. The original plan was I should have been mid Atlantic ocean now cooking for a crew ...

…captain don’t fire me

Yesterday as we went to St Laurent du Var for crew dinner, I was almost choked with my emotions. I am actually leaving again… the thought of leaving this crew just make my heart ache. ...

…”best pasta in the world”

With the summer fading away, I made the last lunch for the family today. One of the kids left for London while the rest of the family are leaving on Friday. This means too, I leave France ...

… ricepudding (rizogalo) & a birthday

I took him to the Greek restaurant, the Greek Islands in Ft Lauderdale. When selection of the dessert came we had baklava and rizogalo ( rice pudding). He loves it.. then it dawned to me I ...