The weather so often a topic this summer is finally warm creating an overabundance of ripe summer fruit. Unfortunately the prices at the market haven’t really dropped and fruit remains too expensive to make jam or simple fruit sauce with. Luckily I live near endless banks of blackberry brambles offering succulent juicy berries for the ...
Ever since reading Fiona Maclean’s post “Chocolate Ganache and Fennel Pollen Tart” I have been enchanted with the idea of using pollen in my cooking. Until then I didn’t even know that such an exotic ingredient existed! Pollen makes me think of bees, flowers, spring, buzzing, green, and delicious earthy smells – all thoughts that can immediately ...
I am about to embark on a journey. A journey to myself. A time has come in my life where I have to put everything and others aside and look inside myself to find me. And so my dear readers and my beloved foodie friends, we must also part for 8 weeks. What better way ...
Having decided to go to Rhodes on Easter vacation in April, the pre-excitement got the better of me and I just had to have lamb and orzo to enhance the anticipation. Usually I marinate the lamb in oil, lemon juice, mashed garlic and rosemary, but I had wonderful bunches of fresh mint and cilantro so ...