Sorry for not being in touch lately – been hanging out and about in Nice. Here’s my photo to prove it! After a long, hot and frustrating trudge west along the Promenade des Anglais checking out various beachside establishments we descended on the Blue Beach Bar & Restaurant and were more than pleasantly surprised by [...]
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brandade fumée – a mash of smoked fish
Posted in Autumn/Fall, Summer, Winter, credit crunch, fast food, ingredients, recipes, shopping, tagged Lidl, recipe, smoked fish on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my all-time favourite dishes is brandade de morue – salt cod whipped up with olive oil and mashed potato plus a wee hint or more of garlic and a scatter of parsley. Much as I adore the taste, though, I’m not about to pack in my suitcase a whiffy hunk of dried North Atlantic [...]
rata-tata-touïlle retro
Posted in Autumn/Fall, Summer, ingredients, recipes, tagged ratatouille, recipe, vegetables on November 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well hey, I’m not going to pay a visit to our place in Nice and swan about its perfect little kitchen, brave the snooty sales ladies at Alziari for a tin of their unctuous olive oil, fossick about the farmers’ stalls for vegetables and forage for fresh herbs on the Cours Saleya and NOT idle away an [...]
if it’s yellow let it mellow
Posted in Summer, wine, tagged limoncello on September 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Limoncello – what’s not to like? For me it conjures up memories of a certain bijou hotel bar just off the Spanish Steps in Rome, we nuzzling and snuggling into the velvet sofa to the sound of our multi-talented and heavily-accented Italian crooner twiddling his Moog synthesizer while giving us his vocal stylings of Captain of [...]
one fine day
Posted in Summer, recipes, wine, tagged whitebait, wine on August 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
With hot sunny weather forecast for Saturday all other plans went on hold so we could seize the chance to soak up every available ray of sunshine on the deck of our new penthouse apartment. Thanks to the frankly not great British summer it was our first opportunity to bask under an open blue sky [...]
Servus interruptus
Posted in Summer on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Gastroplod is in transit, so my apologies for any inconvenience. Normal service will resume shortly, once Mr T’s had a bit of rhinoplasty… ◊ transformation is the buzzword this year ◊ Subscribe to my feed and be the first to know when I’m back on the block
would the real Mr T please sit down?
Posted in Summer, food politics, tagged Mr T, Snickers on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News reaches me my husband is at the eye of a storm of controversy in the States, but I don’t know how that can be, we work hard to keep his secret identity SECRET so we can carry on our gastro adventures privately; don’t want to draw a crowd, not keen on being mobbed by paparazzi either. [...]
of all the gin joints in all the world…
Posted in Summer, overseas, shopping, wine, tagged gin, Mahon, Menorca, Xoriguer on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
… we walk into a Menorcan distillery: undaunted by our desultory lunch at Cafe Baixamar we stuck to our plan and headed west for the Xoriguer Gin distillery tasting showroom, not much further along the Mahon waterfront. T had the purchase of a bottle of G in mind and I tagged along: gin gives me shivers and [...]
Campari
Posted in Summer, wine, tagged aperitif, Campari, summer drinks on July 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Oh how I miss those apéritif adverts of the 1970s …anytime anyplace anywhere, there’s a wonderful drink you can share, it’s the bright one, the right one, thaaat’s Martiniii… I’ve been yearning for the fabulous life ever since. But it turns out Leonard Rossiter was an arrogant egotist - he referred to Joan Collins as the [...]
sopa Menorquina
Posted in Summer, overseas, recipes, restaurants, vegetarian, tagged Baleares cuisine, Ciutadella, food, Menorca, Minorca, recipe, sopa, soup on July 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mr T opted for sopa Menorquina as his set-menu starter at La Guitarra in Ciutadella de Menorca one rainy lunchtime and its simple, straightforward heartiness really hit the spot. Unlike Cafe Baléar, however, La Guitarra is one place I wouldn’t advise opting for the menu del dìa; for although the restaurant has a great reputation for local [...]
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