10 Things to Eat and Experience on Your First Trip to Peru – From Ceviche, and Empanadas to Coca Tea and Lomo Saltado

10 Things to Eat and Experience on Your First Trip to Peru

Peru covers desert coastline, high Andean valleys, and Amazon lowlands, and a first visit rarely fits all three comfortably.

Most people arrive with Machu Picchu at the top of the list and then find the food, the markets, and the smaller ruins competing for the same limited days.

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Sizzling hot, crispy, and full of flavor and texture, a bite of properly made banh xeo is what I dream about.

Everything you ever wanted to know about fish sauce, plus my secret recipe for the best fish sauce you’ve ever had.

I am starting a new series on Lavender & Lovage, for Regional British Recipes, and the first recipe I’m sharing is for Melton Hunt Cake

An Historical Regional British Recipe from Leicestershire

I am starting a new series on Lavender & Lovage, for Regional British Recipes, and the first recipe I’m sharing is for Melton Hunt Cake.

Melton Hunt Cake originated in Leicestershire, and this scrumptious, very rich fruit cake was made by John Dickinson in Melton Mowbray, home of the famous pork pies, for the Melton Hunt in 1854.

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It’s Aug-tober and this pho is here for it.

Very Cheesy Scones with Kefir – A special cheese scone recipe that I created using Fen Farm Dairy’s kefir, and with extra cheese in them too.

Cheese Scones made with Live Culture Kefir

Very Cheesy Scones with Kefir….a special cheese scone recipe that I created using Fen Farm Dairy’s kefir, and with extra cheese in them too.

Their NEW traditionally fermented kefir is handmade on their Suffolk farm, using fresh milk from their happy Montbéliarde herd of cows, and live cultures from Normandy.

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Dumpling lasagna is an easy to make version of classic xiao long bao, but lasagna.

Baked Gooseberry Pudding – this recipe based on the late, great Jane Grigson, from her fabulous book, English Food.

A Classic British Baked Pudding

Baked Gooseberry Pudding……this recipe based on the late, great Jane Grigson, from her fabulous book, English Food.

Memories can be fickle, the good times are nearly always better and the bad times sometimes fade, hopefully, but I do think that memories of my time spent with grandparents are an accurate recall of precious moments that I enjoyed with them.

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Hatch chile season is here: it’s now or next year!

Ploughman’s Lunch Rolls – Another idea for a cricket tea, for a picnic, or a packed lunch

Cheese, Ham, Salad and Pickle Sandwiches

Another idea for a cricket tea, for a picnic, or a packed lunch, Ploughman’s Lunch Rolls.

I make these fairly regularly for lunch or when we’re going on long car journeys, as well as for light lunches.

Although I’ve used wholemeal bread rolls in these photos, this lovely sandwich filling works just as well in crusty white bread rolls.

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