Deep fried oysters…
Part 3: Kyoto & Koyasan (Mount Koya)
The two tempura chefs, master and protégée, set to task, organising the different pieces that they would be using to create our tempura. Individually frying each piece.
Part 2: Matsumoto & Takayama
I thoroughly enjoyed this experience – dressed in my Yukata, sat cross legged at the table, sampling all the delicious components that made my extremely, healthy and well-balanced breakfast. A great way to start another hectic day of sight seeing and travelling. My only advice if having a Japanese breakfast is that you cannot be in a rush. There are so many parts of the breakfast to get through you need time to enjoy them all!
Part 1: Tokyo & Nagano
With my limited Japanese and pointing at pictures in a menu, I ordered a set meal with a bowl of ramen – a Japanese noodle soup dish which was flavoured with ox tongue – and spicy chicken pieces served over rice and the ubiquitous miso soup.
Japan 2015
As many of you know from following my regular posts on facebook, I have been holidaying away for three weeks in Japan. Culture was at the heart of the trip; with food playing a vital part of my journey; after all, you are going to need to keep your energy up if you intend on…
Calentita! 2015
Calentita! Street Food or Gourmet Nosh? The Spring Festival came to its climactic ending with Calentita! Gibraltar’s annual food festival. 40 stalls served food to over 6000 people throughout the evening spread between Grand Casemates Square and Market Place. The live kitchen with professional chefs was televised on big screens so that the crowd could…
The Best Pinchitos in Town!
Not to everyone’s tastes; the decor with its chintzy relics of Morocco, dusty souvenirs of the red fez, babouche slippers and mint teapot variety adorning the cobwebbed shelves above the bar, the sliding door for the toilet that hung on a hinge and the service that ran on Abdeslam-time but I liked it, as did many.
Baked Chocolate Puddings
As a cook, I compartmentalise chocolate into two groups. First: normal everyday milk chocolate bars full of sugar, biscuits, dried fruits or nuts that seduce us with glittery, colourful wrappers; appealing to the inner child. They serve as a mere sugar rush, a boost of energy to keep me going through the day. Second: dark…
Easter Eggs
Having just come out of the Easter Long-Weekend, what everyone is in agreement with is, that no matter what, Easter is all about CHOCOLATE! Even more so than Christmas, in particular, the now traditional chocolate eggs. But where did this tradition come from? There are two ideas here that intertwine to the point where we gift eachother…
Variety is the Spice of Life
My workday breakfast is a bowl of porridge with cinnamon and bananas, healthy; yes, exciting; no. Even though we try and be creative in the kitchen, we always go back to our kitchen favourites time and time again. The point is not to be so diverse that every meal requires discovery (as well as trying…
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