After writing yesterday’s post, I started thinking of the different dishes I have had on my travels that I started making once I got home.
- Gazpacho – My first memory is from a trip I took to Montreal when I was 19. My oldest sister and I had dinner at the Beaver Club in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. (When I googled to see if the restaurant still existed, I found a press release saying it was now just for private functions.) I can’t remember what I had for the main course but for a starter I had gazpacho, which I had never had before. I have definitely made it many times since.
- Potato Salad with Dill Pickles – When I make potato salad, I add chopped up dill pickles. This is from my memory of the potato salad I had in Russia when I was 14.
- Sticky Toffee Pudding – From England obviously. It has two of my favourite flavours – toffee and dates.
- Tzatziki – from my first trip to Greece along with the rice pudding I mentioned yesterday. I have also made spanokapita (I often ate one of these for breakfast when I was there) as well as moussaka. Two most memorable moussakas – in Olympia and on the island of Samos.
- Pouring Custard – England again. Great over desserts.
- Spaghetti Carbonara – I had this in Florence last spring and have tried to make it once, not completely successful but will try again.
- Aperol Spritz – Also from Italy this past spring, first in Verona, then in Milan, Varenna, Basel, Switzerland and then on a Rhine River ferry. After I came home, it was my go-to cocktail of the summer.
There are probably a few more that I’ve forgotten.
Now here it is your moment of mosaic. From Greece (the island of Kos) because it seems that a lot of my dishes come from there. It is Europa and the Bull (Zeus in disguise).
