One of the things I like most about traveling is the food. Getting exposed to new restaurants, new dishes, new ingredients, etc. Sampling everything from the simple to the exotic: from grilled tomato toast in Spain to reindeer meatballs in Finland. Upon returning home from our trips, I am inspired in the kitchen and try to replicate some of the more…
Freezing watermelon may be my favorite food discovery of the year! I don’t know how many times I’ve bought a whole watermelon and unless we’re entertaining a crowd, after 3 days of sliced watermelon with dinner we have all hit the wall. Then I still have at big chunk of watermelon taking up valuable fridge space and after a few days…
Happy Cinco de Mayo!! “Cinco de what??” That’s the reaction from friends here in the UK when I mentioned that I was working on a post for Cinco de Mayo. It’s not exactly a UK holiday; nor much of a Mexican holiday for that matter. Widely celebrated in the US, and parts of Mexico, it’s a national pride day for Mexican…
Nearly 10 years ago I was lucky enough to get a publishing contract with Chronicle Books out of San Francisco for a hot drinks cookbook. The result was “Some Like it Hot: 50 Drinks to Warm Your Spirits” which I co-wrote along with my dear friend, Holly Burrows. We had such fun developing those recipes from her kitchen in San…