A Special Spanish Salad for Me!
October 3, 8:00 pm Only two days into the trip and I was already tired of the heavy meat and bread diet that we had been encountering in Spain. I […]
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World Spices Cooking Class 2: Burmese Melon & Lentil Salad
The first dish for this World Spices Cooking Class was a vegetarian Burmese salad. Consisting of peanuts, lentils, a mass of ginger and melon, this salad was an unusual combination […]
Blueberry & Blue Cheese Summer Salad
I went shopping along Main St. and came home with blueberries (two baskets for $3!) as well as a big wad of crumbly Gorgonzola ($5). Inspired by the superb salad, […]
Boat Tour of Maastricht and the Underground Tunnels
The highlight of a side trip to Maastricht was a boat tour down the canals to the underground tunnels… Under grey skies, we toured along the river, passing through the pastoral scenery of […]
A Stop in Hasselt, Belgium
May 06, 2012. Today we travelled from Dinant to Hasselt. It was pouring rain and although we passed by some interesting ruins, neither of us was willing to venture out into the downpour. It was […]
Green Papaya Salad, a Treat from South East Asia
Green Papaya Salad is popular in a lot of places in Southeast Asia; we found it in Northeast Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. This particular recipe is from my Laos Cooking Class. The […]
Food & Wine of Alsace Class 2 Part 2
For the first half of this meal see the Food & Wine of Alsace Class 2 Part 1. The second half started with ‘Grilled Munster Cheese Salad’ Following the richness of the ‘Flammekueche’ […]
the food & wine of Alsace: UBC Class 1, Part 1
Although the Alsace is a province of France, it is right on the border with Germany, and the food and wine has been heavily influenced by the Bavarians. Our first […]
The Food and Wine of the Rhone Valley – Class 3 Part 2
The finale for our Food and Wine of the Rhone Valley was Bouffade of the Rhone Valley and a Warm Goat Cheese Salad with Honey and Walnuts. This was served with the […]
Wine & Food of the Rhone Valley: Class 2 Part 1
Part 1 of our second class in the food and wine of the Rhone Valley we continued on with our ‘Epicurean Fish Consommé’. This soup took several days to prepare. […]
