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Crete – Food & Travel Diary

Beautiful Crete was one of our last stops in Greece before we headed off to explore more of  the rest of Europe.  Situated south of the  mainland, it is the largest Greek island and filled with so many places to explore. We spent eight days in total and split it up between Rethymno and Chania. [...]

Napoli – Food & Travel Diary

Stop two of our Italy adventure brought us to Napoli, creators of my favourite food…Pizza. We only spent two days here so we tried to fit in as many places that we could. Napoli as a city is pretty crazy, the drivers on the road are ruthless, trying to cross the street felt like a life threatening decision, [...]

Fig Crostata | Recipe

On the weekend my Dad brought home a huge box of figs from the markets. Taking the opportunity, I found a recipe on the Gourmet Traveller website for a Fig Crostata which I used as the base. It seems like my measurements may have been slightly wrong in the recipe as my pastry mixture was too [...]

Poppy’s Birthday Lunch

To celebrate Poppy’s 22nd Birthday, we decided to throw her a casual lunch filled with yummy food on a lazy Saturday afternoon. My group of friends are great in the sense that we all have large appetites and love to eat good food. We always go overboard and ended up having a mini feast. Each [...]