The height of our culinary experience in Prague was TRDLO. That’s right. Trdlo. I didn’t miss any vowels there! LOL (Some other Czech words do not have any vowels at all like zmrzl – frozen solid, ztvrdl – hardened, scvrkl – shrunk, blb – fool, vlk – wolf, etc.) What is trdlo? Very simply – [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Food’
The culinary capital of Spain….no, Europe!
We’ve travelled a fair bit since living in Kuwait and when travelling to a new place, I usually research the place and its attractions well before the trip so that I can picture the holiday, so to speak. Hubby usually plans the excursions and activities. I had known about our trip to San Sebastián for [...]
Touring San Sebastián
It was our first day in San Sebastián. Maria and Iñigo picked us up at our hotel at around 10am to start our tour of San Sebastián. It was such a lovely day with NO RAIN in sight! Clear skies and a soft breeze, certainly not a day for boots and umbrellas. We were so [...]
Tapas and pintxos
Maria and Iñigo drove to our hotel, the Astoria 7, to meet us and take us out for tapas nearby. Spanish tapas, the plural of “la tapa”, has an interesting legend behind it and stories that “explain” the eating times and afternoon “siesta” associated with Spanish lifestyle. Some authors assert that the tapa was born [...]
The rain in Spain….
It was 7:30pm when we arrived in San Sebastián. It was raining lightly and we had been amazed at the sudden weather change as we drove into Euskadi (Basque for “The Basque Country”, in Spanish: País Vasco) earlier in the evening! It had gradually gone from perfectly sunny when we were approaching Burgos to cloudy [...]
Vamos a España!
Three weeks ago we left Kuala Lumpur and came back to Kuwait. Unpacked and wondered whether I should put away the suitcases…ummm…well at least one of them because I knew I had to start packing for the trip to Spain! I actually put them away because I hated the mess of having suitcases where they [...]
Celebrating Eid a.k.a. Raya
Hari Raya Aidil Fitri or Eid al-Fitr is the festival that follows the completion of Ramadan observance and its celebrated quite differently depending on where we are. While living in Malaysia, we would traditionally hold our “Raya open house” on the second or third day of Eid. Many of our Muslim friends would usually be [...]
Cooking in the new kitchen
Ramadan is a time when, despite fasting, people go out of their way to cook something special for family, friends and neighbours. Sometimes we invite people over for fast-breaking (berbuka puasa in Malaysia or iftar in the Middle East). If we don’t feel like entertaining, we have the food sent over in good time for [...]
The fridge and the omelette
Bosch called me two days ago to deliver the fridge yesterday but I wasn’t available so an appointment was made for 11am today. I called Bernard the same day to let him know so that he could arrange the installer. I waited and I waited and I waited. It was 11:45pm and still no fridge. [...]
