
Our cruise boat has very nice food, served frequently. When I get home I'll post some photos. Meanwhile, watch maetravels.blogspot.com for a few wildlife photos -- my favorite is penguins.…
Our cruise boat has very nice food, served frequently. When I get home I'll post some photos. Meanwhile, watch maetravels.blogspot.com for a few wildlife photos -- my favorite is penguins.…
The land iguanas on Plaza Island (visited yesterday) eat beach plants, which store water in this season. The plants are very beautiful: some red, some green some with yellow flowers, which the iguanas especially like. Sounds better than their normal diet of cactus to me! See maetravels.blogspot.com …
Note: we drank coke with our lunch.Galley of the Eclipse where they actually cooked our foodFor pictures of some of the wildlife we saw today, see: Santa Fe Island.…
After our own breakfast we walked back to the Darwin Research Station up the hill, and saw the same turtles as before -- eating breakfast. We also caught a glimpse of Lonesome George, the last of his species, who lives in the reserve with two females that don't interest him at all.…
These must be fantastically fresh fish. But what really struck me was the baby sea lion begging -- and the fisherman (or fish monger, I don't know which) actually tossing him one. A big crowd of pelicans were also begging.…
On a beautiful walk this morning, I saw a most unusual sight: a heron who had a large eel in his beak, and was pecking and eating it. My excellent guide had never seen such a thing before. Along the 2 km trail to the wide sandy beach I also saw many beautiful birds, especially finches (see Beach wal…
The tour I took today had lunch at a small cafe on the island of Floreana, pop. 110, electricty entirely solar, maybe with more tortoises than humans. These fritters were quite nice.For much more interesting photos of wildlife and so on, see maetravels.blogspot.com for more posts later today.…
We have arrived in the Galapagos. Airplane meals are so scarce, I took a photo of this one. Mostly, I'll be posting photos of wildlife and whatever we see at my other blog, maetravels.blogspot.com ... so far I documented the trip from our plane window here:Flying to the GalapagosHello from Miami…
After making blintzes, I began to wonder how and when this dish and many other dairy foods became associated with the early summer festival of Shavouth. I posted some of my findings a while ago, but I've been reading further, so this is an expanded post.According to John Cooper's book Eat and be Sat…
Just a note to say that I made a Julia Child recipe for dinner, accompanied by the sides she recommended. A ragout of duck in which the sauce contained a whole head of garlic, accompanied by rice with mushrooms and steamed broccoli. A baguette from the store. Simple. Delicious.But I didn't take any …
This is my present. Miriam and Alice picked it out for me on a visit to the Smithsonian. I bet they are cooking something for Evelyn this morning! Such thoughtful little girls.…
In this week's New York Times travel section is a very wonderful article about the Cathars and the area where they lived in southern France. A number of years ago we visited this area, and I remember the mysterious and beautiful narrow winding roads in the rugged mountains.The author writes about th…
I knew by the floury, eggy smell when I whisked the crepe batter that this was really my mother's blintz recipe that I was making. The smooth, bland and very thin mixture was made from just water, flour, and an egg -- as called for in the recipe that you can see at left, in my mother's handwriting. …
Radishes came up in Miriam and Alice's garden and grew into delicious readiness without anyone doing anything this year. Did they reseed themselves? Overwinter? No one knows. The girls harvested them for lunch on Saturday. They were delicious.…
Last Friday we decided to go to dinner in downtown Fairfax. Here's Alice putting her car seat in our new car, and then Alice and Miriam in the back seat.The Wine House is in a courtyard in a beautifully designed modern building. Several other restaurants offer seating there as well -- and children p…