A quick look back at last week’s dinners – four of them, and with quite a few past guests returning to the table. We also had one night without power (2½ days actually, but only one dinner affected) – candlelit in both dining room and kitchen. Thank goodness for a gas stovetop and a couple… Read More Dinners Galore
I’m going to be delving deep into some baking research over the next months. It will be near like Heston Blumenthal’s In Search of Perfection as I explore every nook and cranny of one baked good or another. Or, I may just try out a few different recipes, see what I think, and come up… Read More Scone Wars
“The moment you say, ‘Please, give me a reason for this’, then you are being impossible and temperamental.” – Monserrat Caballé To see a place and a people through someone else’s eyes is often what photography is all about. You go to a gallery and stare at a picture and think, “I wish I could… Read More View Finder
First, a note – for those of you who read this in a blog reader or via a feed, you may not have seen that SaltShaker has been nominated for an expat blog award. I hope you’ll support me and leave a little love on the voting site! We both had a couple of other… Read More Last week. Dinner.
Picking up after a particularly good club sandwich on our Great Sandwich Hunt, we’ll start with a little delivery action. Everyone’s favorite local online delivery service, BAD for short, came up with a listing of intriguing sounding sandwiches from Brie, Delicias al Paso, Arenales 2599, and we decided to give a shot at their two… Read More The Great Sandwich Hunt 7
The pancake mood has struck again, and for some odd reason I’m still sticking with the idea of finding recipes for really good vegan pancakes – which for the most part just means pancakes that use baking powder or soda in place of egg for lift. I have no particular reason to avoid eggs, it’s… Read More The Vegan Short Restack
No, I haven’t changed orientation, not to worry, or speculate – in fact, you’ll see that at the end of this post. Originally much of this last week looked devoted to Google. Yes, Google. They were having some sort of international team-building event hosted here in BA for their engineers, apparently an annual happening. Upfront,… Read More Five Nights Straight
Now that I have your attention, which I probably did anyway since you didn’t, likely, stumble on this page by accident, it’s time for the write-up of last week’s dinners. I mean, enough about other restaurants, right? I’m not even going to venture a guess at the hit of the menu, the jury of guests… Read More Two Fish Swim Into a Sand Bar…