{"id":605,"date":"2014-11-23T21:38:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T05:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musingsandmosaics.wordpress.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T22:52:31","slug":"traveling-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">After writing yesterday&#8217;s post, I started thinking of the different dishes I have had on my travels that&nbsp;I&nbsp;started making once I got home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong>Gazpacho<\/strong> &#8211; 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&#8217;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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong>Potato Salad with Dill Pickles<\/strong> &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong>Sticky Toffee Pudding<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; From England obviously. It has two of my favourite flavours &#8211; toffee and dates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong>Tzatziki<em> &#8211;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>from my first trip to Greece along with the <strong>rice pudding<\/strong> I mentioned yesterday. I have also made&nbsp;<strong>spanokapita<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>(I often ate one of these for breakfast when I was there) as well as <strong>moussaka<\/strong>. Two most memorable moussakas &#8211; in Olympia and on the island of Samos.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong>Pouring Custard<\/strong> &#8211; England again. Great over desserts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong>Spaghetti Carbonara<\/strong> &#8211; I had this in Florence last spring and have tried to make it once, not completely successful but will try again.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong>Aperol Spritz<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">There are probably a few more that I&#8217;ve forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/kos-ancient-town-roman-villa-mosaic-europa-and-bull.jpg\" alt=\"Kos - Ancient Town Roman Villa Mosaic (Europa and Bull)\" class=\"wp-image-610\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After writing yesterday&#8217;s post, I started thinking of the different dishes I have had on my travels that&nbsp;I&nbsp;started making once I got home. 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