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I Learned How to Make a Layered Cocktail!
Something I have always wanted to learn how to do. I took a class in the Culinary Center on Marina, my Oceania Cruise. The drink, “Galway Blazer Fence Reducer,” has only 3 ingredients: coffee liqueur, Bailey’s Irish Cream and Vodka. It is all how you pour them in….
Cooking in Mallorca
Got to prepare escalivada, an egglplant, red pepper side dish with Joan Abrams at Sonmo Olive Estate on Mallorca. He also treated me to a local favorite dessert called Ensaimada, a spiral lard pastry, in this case stuffed with pastry cream. So tasty!
Made the Mallorcan Version of Dirty Rice
over an open fire at the Sonmo Olive Estate in Valdemossa. Here are all the ingredients.
A Blue and White Town in Tunisia
This is the entrance to a tea house called Cafe de Nattes in the town of Sidi Bou Said. Reminds me of Greece.
Gin and Tonics in Barcelona
It’s a thing! After dinner!! But, when the ingredients are so stellar (special local gin, special local tonic) it all makes sense.
Wine Tasting in Santorini
Went to a beautiful winery, Venetsanos Winery, on a cliff in Sanotorini with an incredible view and drank the local dry white wine and vinsanto – the very tasty dessert wine that is only made in Santorini.
Vermouth and Tapas!
Vermouth is a big deal in Barcelona. I visited a popular bar, Morro Fi, to have a taste with Sam Zucker, an ex pat American and local tour guide. I thought of my Dad, the negroni king.
