Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Have an artichoke lunch at Duartes Tavern in Pescadero, a few hours south of San Francisco. This is the first in a series of posts about our road trip down California’s famous Highway 1. The stretch of Highway 1 immediately south of San Francisco, before you hit Santa Cruz, is pretty but not as spectacular [...]
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 [...]
Borough Market is one of my all-time favourite places in London. It’s a gourmet food market right near London Bridge and South Bank and a definite must if you come to London and have even the remotest interest in cooking or eating. It’s not exactly a farmers’ market but there are plenty of farmers plying [...]
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 [...]
I’ve just finished a special meal for one. I went to Borough Market today and stocked up on goodies to help keep myself cheerful during the separation. My husband is vegetarian, so it’s also a chance to indulge my inner omnivore (though admittedly I do eat meat and fish when he’s here as well). I [...]
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 fantastic rustic lamb dish, from Jamie Oliver’s classic cookbook The Return of the Naked Chef. Now that the cold weather has arrived and the days are drawing in, I find myself craving hearty comfort food. With friends coming over for Sunday lunch last weekend, lamb seemed like just the ticket and I liked the [...]
* Lao-Ocean Girl has a review of Star Chef restaurant in Seoul, Korea. It looks mouth-wateringly delicious. * I love the sound of these vanilla-poached quinces from Spittoon Extra. Best of all that the fruit was free! Here in the northern hemisphere it’s definitely the season for cooked fruit desserts – we had baked apples [...]
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