A nice meal

After a surprisingly hot walk from Ottawa to Gatineau across the Alexandra Bridge, it was a pleasant to find that the beeline for the nearest bit of shade was the Café du Musée, part of the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Lunch consisted of cold white wine, vichyssoise, baked salmon (with a kind of tasty foamy sauce, dauphinoise potatoes, summer veg) and a pretty good view of the Ottawa River and Parliament Hill.

Best Pizza in New York

On a food tour of Greenwich Village, one of our first stops was the "best pizza" in New York. It's all to do with the water, apparently. Oh, and that they cook pizza fresh. Two pizzas max on the counter top. Oh, and it's also where Spiderman is fired from in the second film.

Bananas in Hanoi

Yum yum chilli!

One of those kind of shots














Kashgar Sunday Market

A story from Kashgar Old Town

Taken in Old Town in Kashgar, we stopped as I noticed fire reflecting off the panels in a dark alleyway and peered in. Looking up, he grinned and gestured for us to enter. At first glance we saw a young man cooking something over a fire. At second glance, we saw a pile of white goat skulls in one corner and a pile of charred goat skulls in another.

Goat Head Soup is sold throughout Xinjiang, but why char them over a fire first?

Nigel Slater's Double Ginger Cake

Absolutely foolproof, even I could make it.

Hot and Sour Soup

My first attempt at hot and sour soup, excuse the rubbish food shot. Aside from over running the cooking time by about 40 minutes, it was also not "hot" enough. However white pepper definitely brought the soup together. Looking forward to the next attempt.
















Just found out about Tastebook. Definitely a more practical alternative to photo albums!

I'd like this for dinner