We love tea. We’re a family of tea lovers – always experimenting and trying out different types and flavours. For me, visiting a tea shop is always a learning experience. For instance, it wasn’t till I visited a tea shop in Leiden that I knew blooming teas existed! So when we planned a short trip...
‘Wake me up for the weekend’ were words emblazoned on a night shirt I had when I was as teenager! Now, I’m saying….wake me up for the winter! And it is about time too for summer’s gone, winter’s almost come. And I’m enjoying autumn in between!
Is it just me or are there other people who love a particular magazine, maybe even subscribe to….but have one edition that’s their absolute favourite????
….yesterday, and today…and I suspect forever. M from the Epicurean’s market gave me two blog awards! When I saw her September Harvest post, I knew we were ‘siblings’! Thanks M I would like to pass this award to some of my favourite bloggers Celia of Fig Jam and Lime Cordial who has wowed me with her...
Thai curry pastes are generally made up of a combination of fresh and dried ingredients. I find it a very therapeutic and fragrant way to relax on a Saturday afternoon. Now, if subjecting yourself to this kind of torture is not something you like to do with amazing regularity, by all means plan to make...
Forgive me…but we agreed when we first met that this would be the place to share our thoughts, our hopes, disasters, successes and of course kitchen tricks!
My son is neither Chinese nor Japanese, and yet he’s constantly lifting his bowl to his lips…not to cool his noodles or soup, but mostly to drink up the milk in his cereal bowl. Forget that he’s only 2.5 years old, this could be the start of him morphing into a worldly guy – complex,...
Stroopwaffles are a common sight in shops, stalls and even vending machines all over the Netherlands. The average dutch person consumes 20 of these waffles each every year. To think that like most other specialties, it was borne of a conglomerate of leftovers by a Gouda baker in 1784. In its infancy, it never cost more than...