This month for my guest blogger $5 feasts, I have not just one but TWO amazing recipes for you. My mouth is literally watering as I get this post ready, so as soon as I am done I am heading to the local market and grabbing the ingredients to whip these …
$5 Feasts – Smoky Black Bean Lettuce Wraps with Goats Curd
This month I am launching my new segment of guest posts from fellow food and travel bloggers who also try and find a way to create healthy $5 Feasts. A great way to get even more inspiration and ideas for cooking up a storm using different ingredients in different locations and …
Easy Rice Paper Rolls for your Backpacker Picnic
Packing something delicious, healthy and portable when you are travelling can be a bit of a challenge. When I know I have a full day of sight-seeing ahead or a hike I generally try to make a sandwich to take with me. However, I am not a big sandwich fan …
French Provincial Vegetables and Mussels Recipe
Looking for an easy, yet delicious Sunday night meal while you are travelling. Then check out my French Provincial Vegetables and Mussels Recipe. Although it is French-inspired, you can pick up these ingredients all over the world and many different markets. Markets! I can’t rave enough about markets, about the …
An Easy Breakfast Steak Sandwich on Portugese Bread
A big part of travel is about eating like the locals, trying out new dishes and flavours at different times of the day. A Portuguese breakfast steak sandwich has fast become one of my favourite foods. Every culture has a different breakfast food… every region in fact. Choosing what to …
Healthy Mexican Steak with Veg Salsa – on a camping stove
Cooking in hostels is always a challenge. Cooking something healthy and delicious is even more of a challenge… one might even call it an experiment. You have to deal with limited utensils, stoves that either burn too hot or not at all, lack of spices and oil and other people …
Lime and Chilli Chicken Salad
I am chilling out on the Mexican island of Cozumel in order to complete my open water PADI diving course… as you do. Cozumel is a relaxed place with the whole island revolving around the scuba diving trade – which is obviously why I am here. Most people visit the island …
From Pintxos to a Basque Style Chorizo Stew – San Sebastian has it all
As I wander through the old town in San Sebastian, all of my senses are pleasantly confronted by food. First, it is the sight of the cobbled streets – so different from anything we have back home in modern Sydney. Then its the sound of glass chinking, old friends greeting …
Singapore Stir-Fry: a Cheap Hostel Meal
Cooking in hostels isn’t always easy but it is always worth it! In Singapore, we stayed at the Green Kiwi Backpackers in Bugis. Which was only a short walk from Little India home of massive fresh food and wet market. Lingo: Wet Market, is where people kill (usually) and butcher …