Copenhagen’s Torvehallerne One of the things I love about travelling is other country’s food markets, whether it’s the relatively new Torvehallerne in Copenhagen, Munich’s Viktualientmarkt, an American hypermarket or a much missed English supermarket, I am at home in them all… I love the vast array of alien produce (and much missed things from […]
Food
Tarte au Chocolat Orange
Be careful what you wish for, as that old saying goes – it might well come true… And this time, come true it did – in the form of the traditionally festive (although excellent all year around I find!) Chocolate Orange! Between us all, we amassed the grand total of nine! A […]
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Tokyo Door, 2013 “Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.” Guy de Maupassant So, that’s that then… The last of the decorations have been packed away, the loyal and beautiful (it (almost) didn’t drop a single needle!) Christmas tree has been […]
A New Year
Sshhhhh…. There are currently still people asleep in our house which I consider an amazing feat in itself considering that all the children of the house have been up since well before 8am! A good night was had by all however, and as well as over indulging in both food and drink (in […]
Best Ever Bubble
It can be almost as big an event as Christmas dinner itself – deciding what to do with the left overs the next day! When it comes to up-cycling left over Christmas Dinner veg, in our house there is no contest, it has to bubble and squeak (so-called because of the bubbling and […]