Bath Christmas Market

This time last year I was traipsing through the Christmas market in Liège – this year it was the Christmas market in Bath.  After the Belgian take on Christmas markets (I also went to one in Brugges and one in Brussels) I have to say the one in Bath was a little disappointing.  To start [...]

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Plum Tart

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

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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La Cremerie du Lac

On the edge of the old town of Annecy is a little cheese shop called La Cremerie du Lac. They sell dairy products, primarily cheese although also eggs, milk, butter etc., as well as wine and jam. They have a wide selection of cheeses, local (e.g. Reblochon, Tomme, etc.), other French cheeses (e.g. [...]

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