musings of a traveller and food lover

Travels

Sukker Spinn

Another sugar rush for all of you but this time Norwegian way. I am just busy back home again, taking a break from cooking for crew!

zucchero filato

On my travels, I always notice cotton candies (evidence of my sweet tooth)… but what I always look for is how cotton candies are named on different places. Literal translation of ...

… mending fishing nets

After two days of slaving in the galley, I took a train ride to Varazze. It’s 36klms from Genoa and Savona its nearest city. Lost in calculating the klms I travelled it took me nearly ...

Travel Photos

travel the italian way Its either I have no time to post or have no internet, but I managed to upload few photos….click this link here and enjoy ….. lets travel

I tre merli

I was having lunch with close friends in Genoa at the restaurant called I Tre Merli when I thought how much I wished I can blog again. I have not have not stopped cooking nor discovering the ...

Isole Eolie o Lipari

time to clean those sword fish!!!! It is now confirmed that we will be cruising Amalfi, Capri and the Aeolian Islands for 3 weeks this coming July. We (just the crew) will travel for 3 to 4 ...

Can you follow a recipe?

marinated artichoke hearts over egg white, cherry tomatoes stuffed with mozarella, parmessan, olives and capers Well that’s what my boss asked me over lunch while anchored at San Fruttuoso ...

Village Market South Turkey

This was in south coast of Turkey is a small village called Kekova. The nearest town in the map must be Kas. Here not far from the harbour is a sunken city of the Lycian period. Eating wise ...

Le Oursin and life in Antibes

Other than not having my own “office” and my dsl connection… I miss my own kitchen very much. This life on a constant go, a life which I have been doing for past years. Well I arrived here ...

Durian

The good thing of independent travel is you can explore places not in brochures. When we were in Lombook, we hiked at the base of Mt Rijani. On our way there we passed few road side fruit ...

My Feet Itching to Go

Last month I had a call from a French Captain for a job offer cooking aboard a 28m yacht, newly built and the home port will be South of France. After a week of contemplating about the offer ...

Can I have extra chilli?

Oh that’s the Swiss Cheese enjoying his soup (can’t remember what it was but am sure that’s with shrimps). Taken in Singapore after an awful torrential rain that left us ...