musings of a traveller and food lover

FOOD

a birthday lunch

A recap of a marathon of birthday celebration hosted by friends, one of these was lunch with Bea at Perch Hill in East Sussex, UK.It was a great lunch at the green house with the view of the ...

Captain Ben’s Spaghetti alla Vongole

Ben said we have been eating too much meat lately…. hmm and I said we are in Italy lets enjoy as much as we could the seafood after all when the family comes, we dont have the luxury ...

Irish Hazelnuts Biscuits

As they say some end is a new beginning….my life had turned upside down but I decided not to be put down with it. The pressure, the depression, sleepless nights and endless tears that ...

La Maisons des Desserts, Namur, Belgium

and yet another story that has been sitting on the draft charming post box Whats Namur? A town or village?I kept saying I really do not know, but my husband went on asking.. What made you ...

.. .oh no not…chicken again!!!

Well I finally resolved the internet connection, am now connected to a UMTS system (don’t ask me that cellular lingo, inspite the fact I love gadgets like cameras and laptops cell phones ...

Dinuguan: Pork Blood Stew LP#9

Pabumum our host for the Lasang Pinoy 9th edition had chosen the theme Lamang-loob: Odd Cuts and Guts. In Tagalog, laman [la’man] translates to “contents,” and loob [lo’ob] means inside–I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...