Food, glorious food!

Bread – a global basic

“Let’s go for a walk with Wine and Bread”

Chocolate – the best food group!

We love Chocolate enough to give it a Page of yummy glory… Take a bite!

Netherlands

Scotland

Celeriac
Leeks

England

Pickles And Cheese sandwiches
Halloumi – the middle eastern cheese we found in UK

Spain

Just in time to enjoy the harvested Onions… inspired weeks of cooking dishes with… onions. I had lots of time to practice caramelizing onions:
with lentils, with cabbage, with feta…

Onions, onions, onions
Puff pastry with caramelized onions, fresh thyme and feta
And delicious FIGS!
Seafood Paella

Italy

Great timing! Surrounded by Olive harvesting in the hills and the last of the figs waiting for us in the garden. Wonderfully fresh eggplant was ready for grilling, roasting, stuffing, dicing or slicing.

Olives and Olive Oil deserve pages of paragraphs describing in detail the versatility and influence of this small, abundant fruit. Yes, fruit. Not a vegetable. As simple as a snack or delicious as a pizza topping (Focaccia flats make great, simple pizzas!) Freshly harvested, freshly extracted olive oil is a culinary highlight of our trip!

Amazing Carbonara and Rissoto!

Croatia

Burek – Börek – and all things Burek

PAPRIKA! And all things paprika shall be found…

Bosnia & Herzegovina, Srpska

Meat!
Pies – potato, pumpkin, meats…

On the road

Couscous – the greatest fast food!

France

Combine Bread and Chocolate!