These posts cover our experiences of entertaining in our holiday rentals during our travels.
This velvety scrambled eggs with truffles recipe makes a decadent dish with fresh winter truffles. The extra creamy scrambled eggs should be silky and sensuous, which means not skimping on the butter for this dish. You can go back to your egg-white omelette tomorrow. After a run. Winter in Europe… heavy overcoats, crunchy snow, rosy … Read more
Our spicy Turkish lamb chops with bulgur recipe makes juicy lamb chops marinated in spices and grilled. I serve the chops with bulgur, which I’ve flavoured with stock and a little of the spice mix used to flavour the lamb, and smoky eggplant and bell peppers, yoghurt, and fresh continental parsley. This spicy Turkish lamb … Read more
In our years of being semi-professional barflies and checking out bars around the world, purely in the name of research of course, we’ve developed a repertoire of favourite cocktails that we always order to test out the skills of a barman. One of them is a Latin American classic so during our recent stay in … Read more
This soft-centred chocolate cake recipe was inspired by our visit to the Villa Vanilla Spice Farm. Seeing fresh vanilla and cocoa beans was a real treat. Seeing the flowers that lead to the formation of a cacao pod and seeing the cocoa beans out drying in the sun was amazing. It was so inspirational that … Read more
Our michelada recipe makes the spicy Mexican beer cocktail that has a kick. If you haven’t tried a michelada before, you need to make one now. We sampled our first michelada at Mexico City’s La Lagunilla market and fell in love with this summery thirst-quenching drink for spice lovers. One of the best things about … Read more