a swesh swesh lunch, north london, uk
Saturday, October 13th, 2007My sister said if the kids will ask for swesh swesh… give them some lemonade. What? Swesh swesh… oh well these Japanesse kids coming for lunch calls the drinks swesh swesh.Why is that?You know when you open the lid the gas escapes and makes this swesh swesh sound. Haha…am so tickled but the kids turn out [...]
macelleria equina…venice, italia
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007I have so many files for some Venetian posts I wanted to share. The day before our boss arrived, I had to go shopping for fresh products. I found the most wonderful market ever in Italy. Thats some of you probably know which am talking about. I took Mick with me so he could [...]
a short break of my french life…
Friday, October 5th, 2007
few days away from boats and antibes , just a short break to london.
both bakeries are here in antibes…the first bakery (they are from corsica) , sells great cinammon rolls that by 10am its all gone!!!!
open market… trogir, croatia
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007dainty macaroons
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Long way back January when I was working in Italy, I had a constant excess of egg whites from the weekly test and trials of different kinds of cheesecakes. Oh yes cheesecakes non baked and baked ones. My Ukrainian stewardess whose sweet tooth equals mine, is simply addicted to cheesecakes. One of my favourite [...]
…slowly getting the blogging mojo back
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Few knows the existence of two other blogs I keep. I am slowly working on my other blogs
where I keep a photojournal and a photo gallery. I know I am better, my creative juices just keep flowing….
Took that photo yesterday… Antibes, France more of these here….
impromptu lunch by the seaside … south of france
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Today I cooked one of the almost perfect risotto. I have been slowly emptying the boat’s fridges these days so I used whatever vegetables I could find. I chopped yellow pepper, courgettes and carrots and served lunch with steak and risotto ala primavera Shalimar’s recipe what ever she could find in the fridge.
The boys said [...]
a norwegian breakfast and trip to the fjords
Sunday, September 9th, 2007Today is the kind of Sunday that I just want to chill and take time to enjoy breakfast. I am already on my 3rd cuppa and some toasted muffins buttered and topped with strawberry jam. A rare moment of day off which in this work am in we hardly know.
It’s also the kind of Sunday [...]
charlie
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007all endings are new beginning
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
I know many of you have changed links and I discovered more wonderful blogs as well. However its been donkey years I have not really done any updating on technical side of webs.
Ever since my marriage ended, I managed to crawl out from that dark pit (many thanks to many of [...]
Cap Taillat, South of France
Monday, August 27th, 2007 Season is almost over, last week we cruised for few days and so far this is the best place we anchored off for lunch just west of St Tropez.
We were 3 yachts cruising together and I had to cook lunch for the family….my famous tomato basil sauce which I add some capers and sun dried [...]
the wanderlust behind this blog
Monday, August 6th, 2007
Oh its meme time…and my friend Thess made it clear I must do this, or else she won’t send me chocolates and wont let me kiss her baby Charlie the pug.
that was over a week ago when we were in Italy and was cruising back to Antibes, France. But work has caught up with me.
The [...]
a birthday lunch
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007A recap of a marathon of birthday celebration hosted by friends, one of these was lunch with Bea at Perch Hill in East Sussex, UK.
It was a great lunch at the green house with the view of the rolling hills of East Sussex.
After harvesting the vegetables, Bea and I cooked our [...]
warm broad bean salad
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007My dearest friend Bea will never forget the evening when she scanned the gardening magazine looking for a new job. In the ad was gardener who has a love for food and will assist the owner of the estate. She looked at me and I said well gardening and cooking… why not indeed? Its [...]
….too many stories to share, but just busy
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
too many cooks… Ben, Clive and Mick these 3 men I work and live with, this was taken when we were in Trogir, Croatia.
I went out with Clive to check the market and indeed it was full of bounty of the sea. We bought some mussels.
The mussels are cooked with lots of ginger, garlic,cream and [...]
Venezia, Italia
Sunday, July 1st, 2007…La Serenissima, the Queen of Adriatic, the city of canals and palaces. And on the 7th day of our passage we finally arrived on such magnificent place to be especially when the yacht stern is facing St Mark’s Cathedral.
contemplating how good life is….
Captain Ben smiling after our safe arrival!!!
…still recovening from a [...]
Captain Ben’s Spaghetti alla Vongole
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Ben said we have been eating too much meat lately…. hmm and I said we are in Italy lets enjoy as much as we could the seafood after all when the family comes, we dont have the luxury to enjoy a decent quite meal let alone seafood or shell fish.
We are kosher well almost [...]
Greengrocer at Vibo Valentia, Italy
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
After another ride over the swells when we left Naples, we arrived at Vibo Valentia of the Calabrian region of Southern Italy.
As soon we were done with the wash down and clean up, I told the crew we need to get some fruits and wine for our clams.
Came along Mick and Ben… this photo [...]
going away soon
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 for those who wonder I am back here in France and in few days a passage to Venice… then Croatia.
a passage back to France along the coastline via Sicily Capri Ischia Rome…..
will be back soonest
artichokes
Saturday, June 9th, 2007 I spent my day outside London yesterday to visit a friend and we boiled some artichokes for lunch. The artichokes were from the garden and nothing can compare to homegrown vegetables… freshly harvested and prepared.
But nothing can compare the joy of pulling each leaf off the choke, dragging the leaf between teeth and once all [...]
Irish Hazelnuts Biscuits
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
As they say some end is a new beginning….my life had turned upside down but I decided not to be put down with it. The pressure, the depression, sleepless nights and endless tears that took my life into a different state was too much to bear.
But then I thought of Dr Seuss words “Don’t cry [...]
just busy
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 i was in courchevel…
then back to athens
back to antibes
now in portofino italy
will get back…
La Maisons des Desserts, Namur, Belgium
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007and yet another story that has been sitting on the draft
charming post box
Whats Namur? A town or village?I kept saying I really do not know, but my husband went on asking.. What made you choose the place? Well I said it’s a town on the east side of the autobahn when we turn right [...]
oh sunny day @ plage keller
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 certain posts have been lying dormant on my drafts that are worth posting.
this restaurant we visited last june 2005 but hey I passed the place last summer and its still packed!
so enjoy…
Inside dining and its view.
We just left Antibes after a morning of going rounds seeing agencies. We have not decided yet where to [...]
…danke, just to say thank you
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007This post is long overdue. I have this post sitting on my draft for a while now. I realized then(oh this was written long way back December) that its almost two years with few dry spell on past two summers when I was busy with work that this food escapades been over two [...]
pranzo prefissato -leciri, italy
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
The first few weeks after I arrived in La Spezia last October and was literally talking to the cranes for days, the boat was out of the water and outside the yard is just darkness.
After 6pm it was an eerie silence, when done with work around past 8pm, I would walk towards the sea [...]
Photo Food Essay
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
long before i have this blog, i always have a camera with me and always take photos of food.
let the photos speak for themselves….
Table Arrangements
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007My work is related to services. Other than being Jeeves to my bosses, I am a first class domestic diva… expert with polishing silvers, taking care of cashmeres and understanding food itself.
On my work am always close to the chefs I work with.
First I understand food itself, secondly because I know how [...]
a very tuscan lunch
Monday, January 29th, 2007
One first word I learned when I joined the yacht in La Spezia was mangiare: to eat!!!
Eating is considered one of life’s great pleasure in Italy.
And what about eating somewhere above the Tuscan hills just outside Firenze (Florence)?
I spent my weekend off in Firenze. A long lost batch mate from my [...]
satay
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Just outside the Sheraton Hotel where we stayed in Lombok are where the locals hang around.
The beach was full of kids and I found out that it was a holiday. As we walked farther I could just smell the wonderful grill aroma…. satay!!!
Lombok, Indonesia
Sukker Spinn
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Another sugar rush for all of you but this time Norwegian way.
I am just busy back home again, taking a break from cooking for crew!
zucchero filato
Saturday, January 6th, 2007
On my travels, I always notice cotton candies (evidence of my sweet tooth)… but what I always look for is how cotton candies are named on different places.
Literal translation of zucchero filato is spun sugar. I still like the way the Greeks call their cotton candy.
Varazze, Italy
.. .oh no not…chicken again!!!
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Well I finally resolved the internet connection, am now connected to a UMTS system (don’t ask me that cellular lingo, inspite the fact I love gadgets like cameras and laptops cell phones never been my priority).
But the only way to get connected here at the yard is to get the latest cell phone [...]
… mending fishing nets
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
After two days of slaving in the galley, I took a train ride to Varazze. It’s 36klms from Genoa and Savona its nearest city. Lost in calculating the klms I travelled it took me nearly 2 hrs to get there.
Wings on feet as usual, I went all the way there to meet this Chinese stewardess [...]