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King Cake – For Real This Time!

Posted in Bath, China, Chinese New Year, Cooking, Cultural differences, Cultures, Traditions on January 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »

A few of you may remember in September last year I posted about the tradition involving King Cake.  It’s a cake that is eaten on Epiphany, which is the 6th of January (so obviously is usually a Christian tradition – although I’m not necessarily religious, I just like cake).  A figurine is hidden inside the [...]

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Gaufres de Liège

Posted in Belgium, Christmas, Cooking, Liège, Recipes on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

That’s Waffles from Liège to non-French speakers.  During the months I spent living and working in Liège last year I picked up a waffle-eating addiction habit.
Belgium is known for its beer, for its chocolate, but also for its waffles.  Many of the bigger cities in Wallonia, the French-speaking region, have their own type of waffle [...]

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King Cake

Posted in Cooking, Cultural differences, Cultures, France, Recipes, Traditions on September 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about a plum tart I made, which started a discussion (look at the comments on the plum tart post) about the tradition of making and eating (well, mainly the tradition of eating) King cake. Wikipedia has an interesting entry all about the different cakes and practices in [...]

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Plum Tart

Posted in Blogs, Cooking, Food, France, Recipes on August 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »

A recent post by Sara on her blog Safari reminded me of one of the reasons I created this blog – to share recipes, whether they are common Western dishes, more exotic Asian, African, Mexican, etc. dishes that I’ve picked up over the years or simply local specialities from wherever I happen to be at [...]

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You can take the boy out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of the boy

Posted in Cooking, Flashback, Food, France, Me, Recipes, Roots, USA on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I decided to ‘go back to my roots’ (or at least to where I was born) this evening by making fajitas for dinner. It’s been almost a year since I last had them (they’re a summer-ish food anyway, especially in a relatively mild European climate), and maybe this is just my inner-Texan speaking (let’s [...]

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Liège under water

Posted in Belgium, Cooking, Recipes on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Apparently Liège was hit by flooding a week or two ago. There’s a video of the flooding and some interviews here: http://www.rtc.be/content/view/5199/166/
Also I thought I’d share a recipe for making chicken satay. I made Nasi Goreng to go with it, using a recipe in a book published by the UN which I picked [...]

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