The recession has hit everyone in Britain badly and there’s nothing more depressing that seeing the value of the Pound Sterling plummet week after week.
What does this all mean? To me it means not being able to visit friends and family in South Africa as often as I would have liked. Also, I have been slightly obsessed with the Far East after I visited Singapore and Kuala Lumpur when I was 13. I dream of exotic fruits and vegetables to be discovered at bustling markets and devouring seafood to my heart’s content. Alas, for now I’ll have to carry on daydreaming about visiting far off places like the heavenly beaches of Thailand, eating Pho in Vietnam, admiring Singapore’s clean sidewalks and pondering whether I would actually eat whale meat in Japan.
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Lobster caught fresh from the sea in Bridport, Dorset.
Mine just has to be Crispy battered cod and chips with mushy peas eaten in any seaside town Im sure its the sea air that makes it taste so good!
Tom Kha Gai in Thailand
Fish and chips where the fish has literally just been landed
Grill freshly caught Lampuki with salad on a balcony overlooking the Mediterranean in Malta
Spicy prawn Tom Yung Goong soup in Thailand after a long haul flight to wake me up and prepare my tastebuds for the assail of heavenly flavours in the markets.
Casu Marzu in Sardinia
stuffed vine leaves, sitting in a cypriot taverna overlooking the sea
Cornish clotted cream, with home-made scones, delicious!
Fresh crab at Cromer ahh….. heaven
Australian MEAT PIES
Lavender ice cream in Provence.
Calamari in a taverna by the sea.
Piri piri chicken – yummy
Haggis
Cornish pasties from The Lizard
hungarian goulash eaten in a local hungarian restaurant
Magerita Pizza with the tastiest thin freshly made base, and tangy cheese topping, followed by freshly squeezed pure orange juice, in Spain. So lovely i craved it when i was pregnant, except i live in Scotland!!
fresh crab at Brixham harbour
Either large fresh doughy seasame American pretzels or papas arrugadas con mojo when in Fuerteventura.
Nothing beats a holiday in Blackpool – a plate of fresh fish, chips and mushy peas
Full traditional breakfast in Scotland complete with black pudding and tattie scones
Moussaka
I would always recommend trying local food on holiday instead of heading to the nearest McDonalds. One of my many favourites is grilled scampi in Italy
Lobster.
tortilla in Cordoba, Spain
Paella in Gran Canaria
A superb TBone steak from the Outback on the 192 just outside Kissimmee
A REAL CORNISH PASTY FROM CORNWALL
BIG MAC AND FRIES IN NEW YORK
White beer and goulash in a cafe at the bottom of a really snowy mountain
HOT PIE AND MASH IN WHITBY
Squid Ink Paella at my parents near Alicante in Spain
Sea food buffet at Harrahs in Las Vegas
FISH AND CHIPS
Zeeland oysters and mussels from Amsterdam….yum
paella
prawns
curry
oyster
Moussaka – the way that my partner’s old grandmother makes it – she misses her old country
fresh clams from the Algarve cooked in portuguese wine
Moules mariniere avec frites(!) down by the port in Brittany, France. I look forward to eating them every summer!
Croque Monsieur from a stall in St Tropez
Moules frites in Ostend
HUGE TRIPLE PANCAKES WITH STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM ONLY IN MIAMI
Locally caught octopus served simply with potatoes, olive oil and paprika in Galicia, I’d wash this down with the region’s peachy, floral white wine, Albarino. Pulpo Gallego – delicioso!
Lincolnshire sausages, best enjoyed whilst staycationing at home here in wonderful Lincolnshire
Fresh Cromer crab, when visiting the lovely seaside resort of Cromer in Norfolk.