Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Recipe for sophisticated Middle Eastern-inspired, gluten-free cake with rose geranium I was browsing in the farmers’ market at the San Francisco Ferry Building the other week when I found a stall selling bunches of rose-geranium leaves. For those not in the know, it’s a specific type of geranium with rough leaves that smell like roses. [...]
The peach season was in full swing when I arrived in California and two and a half months later it is still not over. Some of the varieties have changed but peaches are still plentiful and relatively cheap. My absolute favourite kind so far are the Arctic Snow white nectarines, which are fabulously sweet and [...]
I can’t believe August is nearly over already! Ever since I arrived in San Francisco, I’ve been devouring summer fruits, especially white nectarines and peaches. I’ll be sad when peach season is over, but I have a cunning plan to extend it a little further. I bought an entire box of organic white peaches for [...]
I have decided to make the ‘best of the web’ link collections a weekly event, alternating each week between the Gooseberry Fool (foodie links) and Roaming Tales (travel). I hope you enjoy it! Recipes An intriguing idea for salsa – a blueberry salsa! The recipe, tested by Alanna from Kitchen Parade, also includes serrano chilli [...]
After months of dealing with immigration paperwork and organising packing and shipping, I have finally made it to California. I’ve been living in San Francisco for a week and I’m loving it so far. We have a great green grocer right around the corner from our house and I’ve also been to the farmers’ market [...]
We have returned to London in the glorious throes of spring, with blue skies and brilliant sunshine and the signs of new life throbbing all around us. As we walk through the parks, the lawns and canopy of new leaves in the tree tops seem unnaturally green in their jewel-like hues. The meadows are alive [...]
The top 10 most popular posts at the end of 2008. 10. Recipe Road Test: Nigella’s rhubarb tart Guest blogger Pixie tests out Nigella Lawson’s rhubarb tart recipe from How to be a Domestic Goddess. 9. Recipe Road Test: Fried aubergines with chilli and salad onions I test out Simon Hopkinson’s aubergine recipe from Waitrose [...]
A Christmas Day discovery leads me to invent a tart in honour of the Oranges and Lemons nursery rhyme. On Christmas morning after a delicious brunch of Scandinavian pancake and opening the presents under the tree, we went for a walk. In serendipitous fashion, we discovered the Bells of Stepney from the children’s nursery rhyme [...]
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