I believe that you only really get to know a place by eating its food. I have been taking photos of colourful meals and interesting markets for awhile and thought you may like to share a taste of my culinary experiences.

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Camping Cooking, Cornwall

The cook
The fry-up


Camping without a camp fire is not really camping.

Tesco version of boerewors
Hmmm, mielies

Borough Market, London

Goodies gathered for an impromptu picnic and eaten sans-utensils

Sunday, 22 August 2010

Granada, Spain


Outside the bus station in Malaga


Paella
I love the colour and scents of these spices.



Tapas: meats and Spanish frittata

Crazy ice-cream

Friday, 20 August 2010

Sedgefield Market, South Africa

Mom enjoys a 7am breakfast roll


Homemade pork pies and scotch eggs






Plane food: Emirates first class on Christmas morning




Cyprus

Baklava and Cyprus coffee (not Turkish coffee we were told)

Good ol' English breakfast
Meze in 5 courses
Even the cat liked it
More baklava but not as fresh as the other

Paris in the Autumn

Mushrooms - not my favourite.



Farmers market


Hot chocolate - very good despite the face I am making :-)

Food and markets from SE Asia




Bangkok street food


Fried insects - yum! (Ok, didn't actually try these...)

Crazy fruit

Cambodian street market
Fried tarantula - eeek, didn't try these either!

Fried fish - not very good

Awesome Cambodian food in Siem Reap
Vegetarian restaurant in Siem Reap
Panini in Siem Reap
Tapas restaurant in Phnom Penh
Fancy restaurant in Saigon
We made an effort to try out the Pizza wherever we could.... The results were quite interesting.
Breakfast in Hue. No shortage of baguettes in Vietnam
Apparently these ribs in Hanoi were brilliant even if they did make Mark sit on the loo for two days!
A feast of meze food in Chiang Mai
Cooking classes in Chiang Mai
Starter nibbles while we wait for our creations.

Ingredients for cooking class
Last meal in Thailand - a pizza with cucumber!