Welcome to my winter wonderland. After two years, my brolly wants to become a parachute, lured by the attraction of stormy weather, when autumn’s golden leaves slowly dance, passing the baton on to pretty bare branches and gusts of snow.
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Churros and Chocolate
Globalisation. My seven year old daughter knows all about it and we had to go to Barcelona for her to let us know. This is the same daughter who asked, ‘Papa, why is everything made in China?’ And yes, he responded. Right or wrong. As a parent, I’ve learnt the hard way, not to promise...
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Yogurt in Paris, Damsons in Autumn
It’s a strange and wonderful life when all a girl thinks of in Paris is yogurt. Pots. Because the French are up there with the Greeks and Turks in making super delicious, thick-set yogurt as this young lady (me) found out recently. In my fine opinion, they beat all the competition primarily because of the...
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Things I’m Thankful For in October
Maple leaves and carnet tickets in Paris. Along with great foodie shops…
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Apples and Orchards
See these photos? Allow them tempt you…a teeny weeny bit. The recipe for this Tarte aux pommes et sucre will follow someday soon – I promise. As will that of the apple curd!
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Bounty of Deliciousness in a Box: My First & Last CSA box
It took me a while to find out what CSA meant and why people were so excited about it. Eventually I found out it was ‘Community-supported agriculture’ referring simply to a partnership between (small-scale) growers and consumers where by an exchange was made of cash or produce, for produce. I like it. Everything about it...
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The Ackee Tree Restaurant, Barbados
We journey to a place Bringing pieces of our heart with us And as we make our way through We discover yet another new place We wish to journey to. When we leave We take a piece of the land And plan our next journeys To a distant land So it was that I discovered...
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On being 1: How to become a blogger
Kitchen Butterfly is 1! One! I (roman numeral). Actually, a bit older than one is she. He. It.
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Chocolate and Orange Meringue Tarts
It could have worked out. For days before I made it, I dreamt and searched for recipes which used meringues instead of pastry pie shells. No dice. Still I went ahead, I could see it, smell it, taste it. The individual elements were great – meringues, orange curd and chocolate ganache.