Category: Food

I tried something new today for lunch. I roasted some sweet potatoes and red onions and tossed it with some tomatoes and avocados. Then I made a chimichurri dressing. Finally I grilled some Mediterranean cheese in some olive oil to top it all off.

A quick midweek lunch! Now it is unfortunately back to work…

I was thinking back today at all the amazing food we have been lucky enough to experience.

One of my favorites was on Christmas Day in Barcelona.  We went to Angle and had their tasting menu.  This was a Delta mussels curry with mini pumpkin and acidulate wild mushroom water.  The pumpkin bits just popped in your mouth!

Another great meal was. It was created by chef Melissa Logan.  It was beautiful!  A maracaibo chocolate pave with a hazelnut dulce sponge, passion fruit curd, praline ice cream and micro flowers.  A work of art!

There is a little dive bar on the east end of Cayman that makes the most delicious fish tacos.  I think part of their secret is the lionfish is fresh out of the ocean.

If I could eat anyplace in the world it would have to be my favorite restaurant in London- The Shed.  I have never had a meal there I didn’t fall in love with and it is always my first stop in London!

Street food (especially in Asia) can be amazing as well.  Traveling through Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Singapore we had some amazing treats!

I think we initially fell in love with food in Sicily during cooking school at the Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School.  I could live in Sicily in a heartbeat!

Tonight I made a salad with some local squash to put on top of my local lettuce I got at the farmers market.

The couscous dressing was really nice- some lemon zest and juice, honey, olive oil and garlic.

I really enjoy cooking so I am going to start to cook more now that I can get some better ingredients!

Tonight I made a pasta salad with a homemade yogurt and poppy dressing, sautéed asparagus and topped it off with red onions, strawberries, cherry tomato and fresh basil.

I have to say it was really nice, but I would probably put a few less red onions next time.

Unfortunately I used every dish I currently have and made a huge mess in the kitchen I have to clean up now!

As you know I applied for the Cook the Farm program in Sicily for 2018.  I read an interesting article this morning in the Wall Street Journal regarding cooking and the current attitudes towards it.  It actually didn’t surprise me, but it is still sad that so many people have lost touch with actually cooking their food.  This is one of the reasons I want to attend the Cook the Farm program.  I think that more people need to learn to appreciate their food and where it comes from.

Just a few facts from the article:

The trend is true across age groups, but is strongest among millennials, the nation’s largest demographic group. About 42% of millennials’ monthly food budget is spent on food prepared outside the home, more than any other generation, according to a survey of 1,500 U.S. consumers last year by Acosta. Millennials spent an average of $202 a month on food prepared outside the home last year, up from an average of $159 in 2015.

Baby boomers, who don’t often cook for large households, are also turning to prepared foods. Joan Shuman, a 68-year-old retired federal government employee in Eatontown, N.J., said she frequently buys prepared salads from Wegmans Food Markets Inc. to go along with her dinner.

The rise of dual-income and single-parent households too busy to cook has also fueled the trend. In today’s on-the-go culture in which people feel so pressed for time they rarely leave their desks for lunch anymore, consumers are increasingly grabbing small bites. “What we’ve uncovered is round-the-clock snacking,” Taco Bell Chief Executive Brian Niccol said in a recent interview.