My first step into a global kitchen
If you’d told me ten years ago that I’d be standing in my kitchen whisking ,french butter, marinating Greek chicken chopping Irish herbs and day dreaming about saffron fields in northern Africa all in the same week .
I would’ve laughed and asked if you were writing a Netflix script. But here I am ,welcome to my kitchen part passport ,part playground., and entirely fueled by curiosity, courage and an unreasonable love for melted butter.
This blog is the beginning of my journey cooking my way through France ,Germany, Ireland, England, Switzerland, Greece, India,Italy Mediterranean and Africa one recipe, one spice ,one story at a time.
Because food isn’t food is memory, culture,storytelling with ingredients and sometimes food is simply the only thing that makes a rough day feel a little softer around the edges.
Why I started this journey I didn’t go to culinary school I didn’t grow up with a silver spoon or a grandmother who measured every ingredient for a recipe. What i did have was a deep longing to understand the world not from textbooks or documentaries but from the simmering pots and sizzling pans of everyday people who love to cook.
Every country has a signature aroma every dish carries a piece of history and every bite is a little window into someone else’s world.
So instead of buying a plane ticket , I’m traveling through taste. My promise to you this isn’t going to be one of those food blogs where you read fourteen paragraphs about my house plants before you get the recipe. No absolutely not, here is what you will get flavor without pretension stories that feel like sitting at a friend’s kitchen table, global dishes made doable for real people in real kitchens. A journey that invites you to taste along with me.
Where we begin first France of course France is first you can’t travel the world with your taste buds without starting in the country that treats butter like a sacred birth right. My first recipe will be a simple Iconic French classic.Poulet a ,la cre’me creamy chicken with white wine ,shallots, and herbs with mushrooms and spinach. It’s humble ,it’s heavenly and it’s the perfect dish to whisper ” welcome to the adventure “
