This post is long overdue, but we didn’t want to miss the opportunity to have a little overview of some of the best places we tried during our holidays in Menorca.
Where we ate… in Menorca
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Matcha tea and white chocolate biscuits
We returned from our holidays to Japan with quite a few packets of matcha tea. Many sweet recipes in Japan use matcha tea, I would say it’s their cocoa, except it’s healthier, I guess!
Apple, date & ginger chutney
I had never tried making chutney before, so when a colleague turned up with 2kg of cooking apples from her garden I thought this could be the best opportunity to try. Even if my favourite is onion chutney, you can also make it with mango, tomatoes, pineapple, and of course apples! Chutneys are made in a very similar way to jams, but the vinegar and spices turn it into the perfect companion for strong cheeses, rather than buttered toast.
A KitKat Cake
I am not really into beautiful or spectacular looking cakes. A cake is supposed to taste good, not to look like you could display it at the museum of architectural design. That is one of the reasons, the other is because my patience is very limited, so I can´t cope with hours of piping and decorating. However, one day I saw a Kit Kat cake somewhere online, and I couldn´t help but wondering if I could make one myself. After all, the one covered with Maltesers didn´t go against my rules of ‘no supernatural colours’ and ‘no edible clay on cakes’, so I decided to give it a go. It was also my first time using buttercream, and it went pretty well! The cake looked awesome and was very tasty. Done and dusted!
Guinness chocolate cake
A chocolate cake made with Guinness doesn´t necessarily sound very appetizing. That is until your eye meets the actual cake, dense, moist and very dark in colour. I had heard that the best recipe for this cake was Nigella´s, and it really was delicious, I don´t think I would bother trying any others. The recipe method is quite different to most cake recipes too, which made the experience of making it quite fun! (Well, I enjoy cooking!)
my tailor is cooking 