A week. Views and landscapes flitting rapidly by…..my eyes, taking it all in. Welcome to America.
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Green Chile Soft Pretzels For St Patrick’s Day
This post is a tribute to St Patrick, the saint I’ve never met.
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March On With The Daring Cooks: Salmon Ceviche & A Wedge Salad
This month’s Daring Cooks challenge is brought to you by a very weary Traveller Jane. Weary in body but not in mind, soul or belly. So weary and a touch under the weather, that this daring cook stayed in on Saturday, fresh off a flight from the US of A, huddled on the couch watching...
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Coming to America & Coconut Jam Drops
So I teased you in my last post about ‘Coming to America’. Its all part of my bubbling excitement because the fartherest west I’ve been is Barbados – I know, its not a bad bookend. Now, I am glad, just like Eddie Murphy was in his film version ‘Coming to America’.
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A Week In The Life of (Momofuku’s) Ramen
aka The Noodle Diaries When my phone rang, I jumped out of bed. It was 4am and my colleague P was on the phone. ‘We’re downstairs’. ‘OK, I’ll be down soon’. I didn’t hear my alarm clock go off. Did it? Anyway, it was too late to process all that right now. I dived under...
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A Platter of Savoury Turkish Delights
Our gastro travels on this week’s culinary tour brings us to Turkey, a country I love for its yogurt – a pot is always on stand-by in our fridge.
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Bucket List #12: Go to Berlin
Vague. Undefined. Free. At liberty to do anything on arrival. All I wanted to do was go to Berlin and I did. It was a last minute trip – new Nigerian legislation called for all citizens, home and abroad to have the new electronic passport. For me, this was critical with business trips planned which...
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Pan Micha from Panama, Une Miche from France
A bridge A connection Worlds. Hopes. Dreams, woven Destinies united Over water Across land Cultures, cuisines, language & skin United in humanity Separated by oceans and seas Mountains and valleys The Brief Welcome to the 2011 Culinary Tour, organised by Joan of Foodalogue. Traditional: make one of the country’s national or traditional dishes. Contemporary: take...