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rosh hashanah lunch, cap d’antibes, france
As many of you know I am Filipina, partly grew up in Greece, raised Catholic, was married to a Swiss Protestant, understand the Greek Orthodox way and very tolerant to different culture and religion.
Also posted in France, Food, Travel & Culture
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…when cooking takes over your life
Most of my food I have posted on this blog are recipes I tried or something
a birthday lunch
A recap of a marathon of birthday celebration hosted by friends, one of these was lunch with Bea at Perch Hill in East Sussex, UK.
It was a great lunch at the green house with the view of the rolling hills of East Sussex.
After harvesting the vegetables, Bea and I cooked our lunch.
Other than the broad bean salad on my previous post, we had boiled artichokes which I posted weeks ago. 
We also gathered some beetroots from the garden,which we boiled and sliced, messing her stove with red blots of stain everywhere.Speaking of beetroots it was Bea who made me love this vegetables. Having grown up in the tropics then pummeled to the Med in my youth the first beet roots I tasted was pickled. Long way back then I hated anything pickled. At Perch Hill there were 3 varieties. Beetroot Boltardy ,Beetroot Chioggia and Beetroot Pronto that made a spectacular salad served with parsely.
herbs she collected that add zest to the saladFor our main course….
Pasta which she tossed with spicy sausages, beans and some swiss chard, incredibly delicious, topped with roasted tomatoes.
Mixed salad harvested from the garden of course which she added dill and some other herbs.
salad leaves with Nasturtium flower 
Our lunch was accompanied by white Hungarian Pinot Grigio of Nagyrede Estate and also had some homemade elderberry cordial which I missed so much!
Our table was decorated with sweet pea which I picked from the garden. We had such a pleasant lunch when she realized the dogs were very quite….
Oh dear they have ran away. They could not resist the lambs thats why! an excuse to lighten our tummy we went out to look for them. But we could not find them at all….Bea said not to worry they probably gone too far away someone will eventually call.They finally came back midnight
I was back in north London wishing I had stayed overnight at Perch Hill where Bea would have pampered me!!!!Thank you Bea.
more of perch hill
Also posted in British Food & Culture, Pasta & Rice
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Table Arrangements
My work is related to services. Other than being Jeeves to my bosses, I am a first class domestic diva… expert with polishing silvers, taking care of cashmeres and understanding food itself.
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Ice Bowl
We went to visit our friends Bea and Momo at Bricket Wood, St Albans, UK. My husband and Momo went for a walk around the garden where Momo works. They came back with some beautiful flowers of BORRAGE or BORAGE
Here is a description of this flower from a botanical site I found
The plant is rough with white, stiff, prickly hairs. The round stems, about 1 1/2 feet high, are branched, hollow and succulent; the leaves alternate, large, wrinkled, deep green, oval and pointed, 3 inches long or more, and about 1 1/2 inch broad, the lower ones stalked, with stiff, one celled hairs on the upper surfaces and on the veins below, the margins entire, but wavy. The flowers, which terminate the cells, are bright blue and star-shaped, distinguished from those of every plant in this order by their prominent black anthers, which form a cone in the centre and have been described as their beauty spot. The fruit consists of four brownish-black nutlets.
Borrage flowers, preparing the ice bowl, frozen ice bowl and ice cube with borrage.
These flowers are great on your salad bowl or for desserts. You can crystallize them and imagine a dainty cup cakes with these flowers?
Anyway I mentioned to them I never made that ice bowl you see on magazines. Bea immediately look at her cooking décor books and immediately we swung into action.
To add colour leaves of PINEAPPLE SAGE were added.
Borrage photo from botanical.com
Here’s how to have some fun:
1. Take two glass bowls, one slightly smaller than the other.
2. Place the smaller one inside the larger bowl.
3. Put two strips of heavy duty tape across the top of the bowl to make a cross shape.
4. Using a jug, add some water to the gap
5. Slide the flowers and the leaves, use a stick to place them
6.Add more water, watch how the smaller bowl rises. Stop adding water when the smaller bowl has risen and is level with the big one
6. Place your bowls in the freezer until the water has frozen.
7. When the water has frozen, take the bowls out of the freezer and run under cold water. This will loosen the bowls around your ice.
Fill the bowl what ever you fancy!
Oh we made some ice cubes too.
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