musings of a traveller and food lover

FOOD

Lasang Pinoy Sundays # 25… Saucy

When Ces of Spices started hosting this weekly Filipino food photography, she always have encouraged me to join. After all I have been active with the Lasang Pinoy “Filipino ...

…when you miss home, cook!!! … fakes

It all started reading Jo’s blog… on her latest post, she wrote about Greek wines – pairing wine and food. Last week I emailed Laurie for a certain Greek recipe in which I ...

cinnamon & honey frosted banana cupcakes

Few bananas that are sitting inside the fruit bowls are rotting away. I thought of banana bread but I do not want to bore the crew with it. So I thought of muffins and for some reason I ...

heaven in my mouth…

I first had my taste of this dessert when my then boyfriend (now ex husband… yes the Swiss cheese) took me to an Italian restaurant up in the northern suburbs where he used to live. ...

panarea, aeolian islands

There is no day I do not think of all the travels I have done all over Italy, or rather all along the coast lines of Italy. One of the memorable trip we did was cruising the Aeolian Islands ...

mousse au chocolat

There is nothing I can describe such pleasure drinking a glass of merlot and licking a mousse au chocolate covered spoon on wet rainy evening here in Florida… while my mental state ...

blueberry muffins

I came back from Athens just a week ago. The following days was spent cleaning the galley. Scrubbing the walls, fridges and cupboards. One cupboard is full of baking goodies… nuts, ...

… storm season has arrived

Its been a week since we came back from the Bahamas and ever since then, there was only a day that it did not rain. The storm season has arrived. On a fine Sunday morning last week, I woke ...

saging pinaypay, a childhood favourite

“Your eating habit is not Filipino anymore!!”… Thats what my Filipina (rather Cebuana) crew mate had said after over a month of working and living together. Marica and I ...

…and we shall feast in the English countryside

Post long overdue again, my body finally took a toll after hitting thousands of nautical and air mileage.After the 5 weeks trip cruising the Bahamas, I found myself going through countless ...

dainty macaroons

Long way back January when I was working in Italy, I had a constant excess of egg whites from the weekly test and trials of different kinds of cheesecakes. Oh yes cheesecakes non baked and ...