Adventures in Traveling the World
Whenever I could, I would drink this delicious, watermelon thirst-quencher. It would just hit-the-spot and was a decadent delight from water. At my first sip, it became an instant favorite. Cold, refreshing, sweet watermelon soothed the heat in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Still the best on hot summer days. Ingredients: 2 cups cubed watermelon 1 cup ice cubes 2 Tablespoons Simple Syrup* In a...
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” Maya Angelou
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
Ingredients 100 g Seafood, 3 large prawns, deveined 1 Lemon grass, slice on angle 3 cm Galanga, similar to ginger and turmeric 2 Kaffir lime leaves, tear out center stem 1 Shallot peel and smash 1 Chili, small, slice longwise 1=mild, 2=medium, 3/5=spicy 3 Straw mushrooms, cut in pieces Tomato, ½ cut into four long slices 1 Spring onion, cut into 1” pieces 2...
Ingredients 200 g Rice noodles, cover with water and soak for two hours 100 g Bean sprouts, 1 handful per person ½ Tofu, extra firm, cut lengthwise into 3” strips and cut into 1 ¼ “cubes Chicken, uncooked and cubed 50 g Cabbage, ¾ cup sliced thin 2 Spring onions, Green onion cut into 1’ slices 2 Garlic cloves, peel, slice into thin slices...
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series...