The railways in East Africa have a long history, the railway was built by the Brit’s with the help of Indian labour. The rail line opened up the interior of East Africa for commerce, during construction the famous man eater lions of Tsavo caused a spot of bother, added to that a pesky tribe of [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Caramel Popcorn, Liquefied
This was my first crack at cooking from the Alinea cookbook. Flipping through this massive book with beautiful food porn(photographs), I am filled with a sense of awe. This is not every day cooking, Grant Achatz & his team are really pushing cooking as we know further. by the way he writes a great column [...]
Chilled Pea Soup, Mint Chantilly & Parmesan Crisp
This lovely soup is about all the peas you use, so taste the peas raw before deciding if you want to use them to make the soup. Tasting will also help you decide if you want to tweak the sweetness with some sugar. The method I used to prep this soup is loosely based Thomas [...]
Alinea & French Laundry cookbooks
Hey my tiny cookbook collection just got bigger, I just got gifted the Alinea & French Laundry cookbooks. Both books are by chefs I have admired from far, Grant Achatz of Alinea and Thomas Keller of the French Laundry. Grant Achatz has worked previously for Thomas Keller at the French Laundry. Both books feature great [...]
Dinner at Sarova Whitesands Resort Mombasa
Last part of my Whitesands food review, this is dinner. Dinner at the hotel’s main restaurant is a massive buffet, & every night their is a theme. My first night there was Mediterranean, second night was Kenyan & final night was Italian. The chefs & cooks did a great job of producing great food every [...]
Lunch at Sarova Whitesands Mombasa
Plans plans plans…… Most great plans seem to come unstuck at the last moment. I think it’s a way the great beings in the heavens mess with our little earthly minds. So on this given day, I woke up at 5:00am all set & ready for a day of snorkeling, beer & seafood at Wasini [...]
Breakfast at Sarova Whitesands Resort Mombasa
Breakfast at Whitesands is a massive buffet, you could literally stuff yourself silly & not eat for the rest of the day…. First plate, waffles, bacon & maple syrup. Discovered this combo during my uni days in Australia, we used to have pancakes served twice a week at the student residence. This combo makes sense, [...]
Chicken ballotine, potato puree & carrot jus
08 Apr 2009 at 23:31
Kiplagat
French Lessons by Justin North, La Technique by Jacques Pepin, Random Recipe
Sometime last year I had lunch at Caveau a great little restaurant in Wollongong. Head chef at Caveau is Peter Sheppard, a protege of Liam Tomlin. Anyway, the lunch special on that day was a chicken ballontine with potato puree, mushrooms, buttered spinach & cepe(porcini) sauce. The chicken was cooked perfectly, I am still trying [...]
Simplicity: Gooey chocolate brownie with creme anglaise
Brownies are supposed to be easy to make but the three brownies I have had recently at different cafes here in Nairobi have not done it for me. First one was very dry but very buttery(a good thing for me! hehe), second was dry with almost no chocolate, & third was a dry brick. I [...]
