Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
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 [...]
We all think we know what Chinese food is but the truth is that it’s incredibly diverse. The most common style of Chinese cuisine in the West is Cantonese but China is an enormous country and even within the majority Han population, there is vast regional variation in the cuisine. When you take into account [...]
I am keen to try out more healthy and diet-friendly recipes and also expand my knowledge of vegetarian cookery. I also love lasagne and believe that a good vegetarian lasagne is an essential dish in any cook’s repertoire. This recipe for lentil, mushroom and ricotta lasagne comes from The Low GI Vegetarian Cookbook by Dr [...]
Everyone is familiar with Mexican food in some guise but usually what we get in the English speaking world and Europe is actually Tex-Mex – an Americanised version of Mexican food. I’m told that nachos, for example, is not traditional in Mexico, that the burritos are usually smaller and skimpier on the fillings, and that [...]
In Washington DC we stayed in Hotel Rouge, a luxury boutique hotel about 10 minutes’ walk north of the White House. I found the hotel online via searching on Google and the New York Times, checked out the reviews from other travellers on Trip Advisor, and then booked via the hotel website. It’s a good [...]
This week’s recipe is for fried aubergine with chilli and salad onions from the September 2007 issue of Waitrose Food Illustrated. It’s a vegetarian dish by guest chef Simon Hopkinson. Fried Aubergine with Chilli and Salad Onions A surprisingly rich vegetable dish here, considering the relatively restrained ingredients. Perhaps it is down to the remarkable [...]
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