+ Going Grapey
I found grapes, a green plant, one lemon, a clove of garlic, and some bacon bits. Add it to some pasta and one’s got a miracle. It’s a light hearted dish for an easy evening with a glass of something tangy and crisp.
+ Eurasian Lifestyle
There is perhaps nothing so sublime as a glass of wine at sunset by the water in the company of a dear friend. Would you disagree? We enter the garden at the luxurious THEHOUSE CAFÉ in Ortaköy and sit at the water’s edge. My former desire for Turkish coffee fades to that for a glass...
+ From China to Texas
It doesn’t matter really where you perambulate in this world, one can always find a culture of tea drinking can’t you? Some are content with electric kettles, styrofoam cups, and a tea bag swimming about. Others hold to bowing over a cup and waiting patiently for tea leaves to softly whisper their drinkable status into...
+ Kinfolk Volume Seven
NO. SEVEN is here, just in time to compliment my morning coffee – a perfect duo as the opening act to the weekend. And this one even promises ice creams! I’ll keep this one brief as a teaser for the latest issue of Kinfolk: A Guide For Small Gathering. Stay informed here for a lengthier...
+ It’s a Risotto Night
This one’s got a long name: MUSHROOM and GRAPEFRUIT ZEST RISOTTO with rosemary sweet potatoes and an acorn squash purée (topped with seared scallops). Refer to above image for ingredients. You’ll definitely need an entire bottle of white wine for this. Or if you can manage, a bottle of rosé from Provence. I also HIGHLY...
+ Going Scandinavian at KINFOLK
It seems like just a week back that I had returned from London with memories of Speakeasy Espresso, talking beer crafting with Evin O’Riordain of The Kernel Brewery, and exchanging witty banter with the VW+BS team. I then found myself in Berlin drinking prosecco in the company of fashionables in the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week tent....
+ Gather Journal
From the racks of Do You Read Me?, it was Gather Journal asking to be plucked this time. Though meant as a gift, I couldn’t help but photograph the pages created by Michele Outland and Fiorella Valdesolo. It brings together concise recipes with delicious imageries and instills the inspiration to wine and dine in the...
+ Herbs & Eggs
Waking to a cold January morning – especially with scotched brains – demands steaming coffee and something piping hot out of the oven. So I’ve decided to forensicate some baked eggs for a continuation to the previous night’s warmth and coziness of close friends, dinner, cake, red wine, and whiskey. The hardest part is always...
+ Nude Espresso, London
A reddish-brunette with tightly swept back hair sits dead centre on the long leather bench. NO, this is not about chattin her up! Her one hand holds a red felt pen. With the other, she balances her cup of double espresso and a packet of A4 editorial images. Occasionally, her left eyebrow slightly arches before...
+ Eggs Brusselois
Pedro is cute and furry. He knows this. Given his esteemed self-regard, he sits at the head of the table. Literally ON the table. And watches and waits. For the coffee being hand ground, milk being foamed, bread toasting away, Hollandaise sauce being whipped up and drizzled atop the chicken. Breakfast of champions and Pedro...
+ Until Gabe Returns
A 2006 Chateau La Tour Margaux calls for an egregious DINNER so a “black-toed” chicken with butter-soaked rosemary stuffing was thrown into the oven while the evening witnessed aperitifs, mashed sweet potatoes, ginger carrots, and steamed cranberry sauce. But far be it for winos to restrain to one bottle so the competitor that rose to...
+ XX Into Bruxelles
Excruciatingly bad coffee saved by a bag of exceptional M&Ms, KFC as the only remotely edible source of consumption, and outrages against drivers cruising less than 200kph sums up the majority of the trip from Berlin to Bruxelles. But as backs stretch in anticipation of destination, Calgary switches to Sunset and the lyrics draw two...
