There’s nothing as fresh and healthy as a nice homemade meal that uses local products and specialties. Living in Nice, France, we are very close to our Italian neighbours. So close that one third of what we eat on a daily basis is similar to the food in Italy. Only we don’t have the exact…
Category: Inspired from my Trips
Fish’n’Chips. UK
About 6 weeks after the 2020 Confinement started in France, all I could think of after long hard days at work was to go to our local Irish pub and eat a delicious Fish’n’Chips. Obviously, doors were closed, and all I had left for dinner were my fingers and a glassful of bitter tears, regrets…
Chirashi. Japan
Japan, again. It seems that we can’t help it but eat Japanese food all the time in our house. It’s so good. And so healthy too. No guilt. Just pure love and pleasure. The Chirashi bowls are very trendy at the moment. Chirashi litterally means in Japanese “not assembled sushi”, which lets us understand that…
Homemade TWIX
About a month ago, my husband felt an irresistible urge to try making a homemade version of the worldwide known Twix chocolate bar. We had a piece of that delicious treat in a small café of “La Petite France”, a famous district in the city of Strasbourg where is held every year the world’s largest…
Lobster Pasta, Tuscany style.
Last Summer, my husband and I went for fabulous family holidays in Tuscany, Italy, with my sister, brother-in-law and nephews. Only a few hours away from Nice, France, where we live, we stayed in the small town of Donoratico, in a former Club Med that is now owned and managed by an Italian group, and…
Coriander and Lemongrass Beef. South-East Asia
I have been having a lot of thoughts lately about Thailand, Vietnam, and all of the other countries that are located in the South-East Asia peninsula. However not for the reasons one would expect. It’s been raining awfully lots in Nice, France, during this de facto uninteresting month of November, and I don’t know if…
Bibeleskäss
I have recently grown to like more and more the food from Eastern Europe and Northern Europe, somehow as if my new taste for this food directly translated a craving coming from a reminiscence of my mother’s family habits, roots and culture. And by that, I mean yogurt-based platters, cured cold meats, smoked fish and…
Soy Chicken
I am always on the lookout for new cooking books, leaflets, dictionaries and anything readable about food, local traditional cooking techniques or – the opposite – trendy and new combinations of flavors. Ten years ago, when I moved out of China and met my husband’s family in France for the first time during the week…
Eating Pintxos in Barcelona, Spain.
Barcelona is such a vibrant city that it makes a perfect destination for tourists all year round. I have already been there a couple times with my family or friends, but this year for the first time I went with my hubby. We specifically wanted to experience Barcelona from the inside, and as Jérôme likes…
Bretzels, Germany.
First and foremost, to the precision maniac that I am, I think it is essential to state that Bretzel and Pretzel are not the same thing; it’s not a matter of wrong letter or pronunciation, they are just different foods. Click this link to catch the differences. Bretzel is from Germany. I’ve eaten the real…
Soba Noodles in Broth with Shrimp Tempuras
This dish clearly has been inspired from my trip to Japan in 2016. It’s something I have loved eating since I have found out how easy soba noodles are to digest. Indeed, they are made of buckwheat and don’t make the stomach swell while it processes the food down. The clear broth makes it a…
2 Days in Alassio with my Girls Band
It’s been 9 years since I have left China, and with that, it often feels like I have also left behind me the good times with people who were both amazing friends and enthusiastic travelling buddies. I don’t deny the fact that returning from expatriation has been tough for me, especially in regards to making…
Spring Break for Adults in Dubai
I have finally travelled to Dubai! Voilà! Dubai is so shiny that you can’t just cross-check it from your bucket list without telling all about it. I stayed four days and had plenty of time to enjoy the city. It is very extended though, but the local transportation system offers multiple options for all budgets….
Egg Tarts, Macau.
In the Spring of 2004, when I was living in Guangzhou, my best Chinese friend Gisèle and I went for a weekend away in nearby Macau. It was only a couple hours drive away from home, and the perfect getaway for anyone who needed a break from the craziness of China without totally leaving the…
Creamy Squash Soup
Winter is coming, they said. Hell, yeah! It’s freezing cold these days. And in the South of France, it is not a nice dry cold like the cold you can enjoy in the mountains. Nah, it’s the distasteful humid cold, the one that penetrates your bones and haunts the inside of your apartment’s walls for…
Flemish Carbonnade. Belgium.
A few months ago, I visited my good friend Marie in the countryside of Louvil near Lille, in the most Northern part of France, not far away from the border with Belgium. It’s only many years after Marie first invited me over that I finally decided to go there last Spring, given that such a…
Udon. Japan
Since our trip to Japan in 2016, our love for everything Japanese has been an ongoing phenomenon. My husband and I have recently been experimenting new foods in several Japanese restaurants that opened in Nice lately. We are always curious about tasting new flavors, and beyond that I am myself very much into trying to…
Stir-Fried Beef with Greens and Scallions
Time for a new challenge. I read so many blogs that sometimes, telling myself I’d love to cook this or that is too overwhelming. I often get the feeling that I see a lot but don’t do as much. So I’ve made the decision to regularly make a selection of the dishes I “like”, whether…
Prawns and Avocado Quinoa Salad
Some time ago, I have tried quinoa and made a fried patty with tuna inclusion, Bolivian style. It was very nice but – I must admit – was not the healthiest version of what one could have done with quinoa. Since I have come back from my holidays in Mexico, my palate has been craving…
Po’e from Wallis & Futuna
A little dessert for us, fellas of the Northern hemisphere who refuse to give up on Summer and want to continue living the dream (!!!). This dessert is as well dedicated to my friends in the Southern hemisphere who are now approaching Summer for real, especially those living near the Pacific Ocean, whether in Australia…
Mexican Ceviche Mixto in Puerto Morelos
Puerto Morelos is a fishermen’s village located right between Cancún and Playa del Carmen. It is also known for being a quiet bay in which the flat lagoon hosts the World’s second biggest reef barrier, thus a great abundance of marine life, just 500m off the shore. Along the beach, no big resorts, no tall towers,…
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