Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Monday, November 6, 2017

Old Okinawan soba house

This was a very nice standalone Okinawa soba place near the peace museum. They had this black garlic paste you could add to the soba, which was delicious. This soba cafe was housed in a traditional Okinawa house with a beautiful patio.






 


屋宜家
Address: 〒901-0502 Okinawa-ken, Shimajiri-gun, Yaese-chō, Ōton, 1172
Phone: +81 98-998-2774

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Albergo Cavallino



We loved this place! They serve hand made pasta with thoughtful appetizers, and super nice atmosphere and service. The peach dessert may have been top 5 desserts in my life (although Kurtan ate most of it). The only thing is that unless you are staying at a hotel nearby this part of Lake Garda, the driving needs care. If you take the wrong road (or the local road through the small old towns), the non-driver will have to stick his/her head out for more than 10 minutes (especially with a German car) - go into the village through the further route aiming for the golf course, and park your car near the big church (if you know which one I mean).



Albergo Cavallino
Address: Via Cecina 10, 25088 Toscolano Maderno BS, Italy
Phone: +39 0365 642072

Monday, June 13, 2016

Fiori Chiari Restaurant in Milan

My colleague Paola who is from Milan recommended me this restaurant Fiori Chiari. It is in the Berrera District which is more local (it looked), and each restaurant was small and in the back streets. It was more new style food and super fresh and clean (as if you're going healthy in Italy).

We walked there from the Duomo, which somehow matched the time of the very well dressed Italian workers coming out to the streets in mass for lunch, so it was great sightseeing as well!

Fiori Chiari
Address: Via Fiori Chiari 13, 20121 Milano
Phone: +39 02 3663 0635

No words needed



A breakfast sandwich at the Windsor Hotel's Clotilde Bistrot in Milan. The place was so good, we went both mornings we were in town. The great thing here is that while it looks new and a place for the young(-ish), there are plenty of old local men and women with a newspaper or a dog that (seem to) come everyday (which is what a tourist to Italy would like to see!).

Clotilde Bistrot
Address: Via Galileo Galilei 2, 20124 Milan, Italy
Phone: 02 634 6804

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Monday, November 30, 2015

Nice coffee shop in Strasbourg



There are so many nice cafes and cake places everywhere in this town. This one was in front of our hotel and good for picking up coffee. Cute slogan.

What the Cake
Address: 51 Rue du Fossé des Tanneurs, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Phone: +33 3 69 08 21 41  

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Blueberry picking on the side



Wild blueberries were everywhere in the forest when we went to pick chanterelle mushroom. You just needed to have some patience to pluck them one by one, otherwise I heard there is a scraping tool that will get all the blueberries on the branch in one scoop. A must have tool when in a Swedish forest.
 

Mushroom picking in the Swedish forest

 
For the first time in my mushroom picking history (I count 4 times), I was able to pick more than 1 mushroom! It was a true adrenaline rush (but more relaxed and magical) once you get into it. The target mushroom was the yellow chanterelle that are really yummy in white cream sauce. I was so into it,  I had to stay on for 3 hours. As I remember the plucking bit now, I already want to go back to this magical forest tomorrow.
 
 
This will all be sauted in a cream sauce pasta or risotto. Mmmmm... 
 

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Grand Cafe und Restaurant im Coselpalais in Dresden


This place was particularly strong in dessert, and the crepe with blueberry, ice cream, and cream we had was just perfect.


The inside had many differently themed rooms, like the below blue room.



Coselpalais - Grand Café und Restaurant anno 1765
Address: An der Frauenkirche 12, 01067 Dresden
Phone: +49 351 4962 444

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Best food ever in Greece



The aubergine salad and the greek salad have been a combination we never missed to add to our meals here. Who would have known aubergine is to be had everyday! These are from a nice restaurant called Johnny's, right by our beach (the 17-minute place from our hotel). Really, good, honest, Greek food. I must also say most places in Greece have extremely pleasant services (they say thank you for everything nice they do for you!).



Monday, April 27, 2015

Good stuff of Germany



The sausages you buy and eat on the streets in Germany never betray you. Such a luxury!




Saturday, March 7, 2015

Kloster Eberbach's winery


Who would have thought monasteries are for making and drinking alcohol. Kloster Eberbach has preserved well its old institution of wine making.


Sunday, February 8, 2015

Sexy blueberry buns

I made blueberry buns improvising Jamie Oliver's sexy Swedish bun recipe. These are really, really, really good. Have one each night with a glass of cold milk and you will stay happy.!


Ingredients: A) For the dough - 20g of fresh yeast, 60g of butter, 500g of milk, 80g of sugar, 1 tea spoon of salt, 800g of flour, 10g of sour dough, 2 eggs, 12g of fresh cardamom. B) For the filling - 300g of frozen blueberries, 1 lemon worth of juice, and 2 lemons worth of lemon zest. C) For the oven pan - butter and brown sugar.

Steps: 1) Melt the butter over heat and mix with milk, to make a body temperature medium. 2) Break the yeast into pieces, and mix with 1), sugar, salt, 500g flour, sour dough, eggs, and crushed cardamom; then after dough becomes elastic, add the rest of the flour to make it into a dough texture and let it rest for 1 hour. 3) In a separate bowl, mix to make the filling (leave 1 lemon worth of zest). 4) Knead the dough flat and fill with majority of filling mix; fold it 3 times, then cut into 1.5-2cm strips to be rounded up into rolls. 5) On an oven pan, put some butter and brown sugar, then line up the buns and add the rest of the fillings on the rolls and sprinkle with the remaining lemon zest.  6) After letting it rise for 30-45 minutes, bake in a 180 degree oven for 20 minutes.

It is important to separate adding the flours to make an elastic dough. Once you bake these, freeze them in a plastic bag at night, so that you can enjoy a warm microwaved one everyday for the next few weeks.

Monday, January 12, 2015

Perfect cafe break near Nikko Toshogu

 

This Lancatlague Cafe in Nikko was a perfect break from the sightseeing and the sequence of nice Japanese food.



Lancatlgue Cafe Nikko
Address: 4-1 Yasukawacho | 2 Fields, Nikko 321-1432, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Phone: +81 288-53-1193

Friday, January 9, 2015

Kosaku in Yamanashi

I have been the most committed customer to this place Kosaku since childhood. It used to be one of the few options in Isawa Onsen, where we own a hotspring place. Now it's become one of the few more places to go to. They serve hoto, a thicker version of udon noodle in a miso based soup. My favorite is pork hoto, but I also like their ozara, which is a colder version hoto with tempura on the side. Yum!


Kosaku
Address: 73-3 Isawacho Kubonakajima, Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi
Phone: +81-55-263-5421

Friday, January 2, 2015

Japanese new year food "osechi"

 
Like during Christmas in the west, you are not supposed to cook food the first few days of January once new year starts.  This is one example of such food called osechi with a lot of festive colors.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Fiket in Gränna, Sweden

 

On the way back from Stockholm to Gothenburg, we made a pit stop in Gränna. This is apparently one of Swedish kids' favorite shool trip destinations, as they could visit a candy stick factory. Here, we had lunch at a 50s cafe called Fiket. They had a perfect shrimp salad and very yummy pancakes!



Fiket
Address: Brahegatan 43, 563 32 Gränna, Sweden
Phone:+46 390 100 57