Vanilla orchids can take up to 4 years for the first flowers to appear. Each flower only opens for one day a year, and must be pollinated by hand that same day! Vanilla Beans (or pods) then take up to 9 months to mature. Once grown and picked, the vanilla beans dry in the open...
It’s been a frigid and gloomy time for us here, and I can’t wait to escape. Only in the last week has the snow started to melt as temperatures finally rose into the 40s and 50s. We have rain in store soon, so I imagine the snow will melt and hopefully we won’t get any ...
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I tagged about ten different recipes in Kim’s book that I can’t wait to try. Given the winter weather, the merry season, the busy time of year when easy dinners are appreciated, and the larger crowds that come to the table for holiday celebrations, I thought it would be ideal to hi...
Tonka beans Native to South America, tonka beans are known for their rich, vanillalike aroma and are used in perfumery and flavors around the world. But the beans contain coumarin, a compound linked to liver damage in high doses. Consequently, the FDA banned the use of tonka beans in food...
exactly what it was, except that it was not the Irish Coffee it appears to be. Or it was, but with a Brennan’s twist. I want to say it had amaretto in it, but it doesn’t appear on the online menus. I do know that whipped cream on top was flecked with real vanilla beans. ...
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There’s no bar so we were straight to our table for aperitif cocktails; I can recommend the Blood Orange Negroni (£8) and the Women’s Washed Espresso Martini (£7.75) though we didn’t get to the bottom of its name. Over dinner we had carafes of red, white, and rosé wine ...
(for seats think of high stools that are arranged around the bar so you can see how all the dishes are made and served as well as being able to chat with the chefs. So you get the opportunity to ask what each thing is and of course think – well I would like to try that one ...
There wasn’t much turbulence which made it a pretty relaxing flight for me. The food on this flight was better than the previous flight. I had unagi rice and Tim had a tomato hamburger steak. They came around with Haagen Daz vanilla ice cream after dinner. A couple of hours before ...