I have a dear friend, Estrella, who lives in Gibraltar, whom I don’t get to see enough but we keep up all the time. Aside from being a holy riot and great fun to spend time with – she is a wonderful and spiritual person and certainly not last, or least, a renowned cook. (Yes, […]
Often, DH and I visit various and sundry countries for various and sundry reasons (my that feels like a land and time and place far, far away right now in the time of Coronavirus). We had gone to Hungary and feasted on many wonderful and different things (still dreaming of the hot kyortush we had […]
There are those days when you simply need a crunchy sweetly spicy snack and there are times you want it NOW not in a half hour. So, the joy of these lovely spicy aromatic biscotti is that they freeze so well they can be eaten fresh and freeze half a batch for those NOW moments. […]
This is another one of those meals that was caused by my dear mama. She gave me a bag of black beans (uncooked beans) and said, I don’t know how I got this but you should take it and do something with it. Hmm, this ain’t the first time. But that’s okay, I wanted to […]
I found some giant beautiful salmon fillets in the supermarket and since it’s warm outside, decided to make a poached dish out of them, to be eaten cold. DH and I particularly like salmon cold and it’s convenient since once prepared, you pop it in the fridge till your ready and it soaks in the […]
I had a ton of plums I had bought, planning to snorf them down with DH (I love summer fruits!) and to my dismay, discovered they were super tart/sour. So what’s a woman to do? Why, cook and bake with them, of course! This was fine since I love fruit cakes and so does DH. […]
I saw a picture in a Waitrose magazine (an English upscale supermarket, has it’s own publication) of gorgeous stuffed purple onions and I loved how it looked so much I decided to do this. I didn’t copy down the recipe and sorta winged it but aside from the spectacular presentation this makes, it tastes fab!! […]
My beloved mama, may she live and be well, was never into food, I got that from my father and my mother’s mother. As DH likes to say to her, so are you filling up on 95 or 98? (gasoline/petrol over here) which is fairly accurate. Eat to live not live to eat. So, I […]
I was in the mood for a simple cake without too much effort involved but didn’t want a plain vanilla cake. So I added a bit of spice and orange juice to snazz it up, and decided to make something between a pound cake and a butter type cake but without the butter. This cake […]