Recipes

My mom is my favorite travel partner, something I discovered when I was 8 years old and we skipped a second day at Disney in favor of eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on a beach and bobbing in the ocean. Now that I’m an adult, our travel preferences and idiosyncrasies remain largely in sync — with the exception being that I prefer an Arctic blast in a hotel room and she’s comfortable in temps more suitable for a reptile terrarium (love you, Mom). Since my mom’s birthday is just a few weeks before Mother’s Day, I’ve gotten creative with...

This Harissa Hummus recipe will have you hooked with its spicy, smoky, and wonderfully aromatic flavor. Last September during the International Food Blogger’s Conference we had a breakout session discussing the up and coming food trends. Among those? Cultural fusion, cauliflower (“It’s the new kale!”) and harissa. The first two were right up my alley – ... Read more The post Harissa Hummus appeared first on Platings + Pairings.

Bali Seminyak food guide The bustling beach town of Seminyak is a good place to explore if you’re visiting Bali for the first time. Besides being one of the nearer neighbourhoods to Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, it’s also chock full of famous restaurants, cafes, and warungs. While a short one week was definitely not enough for us to savour everything this place has to offer, we’ve shortlisted nine best food places in Seminyak you should visit for a start. 1. Made’s Warung Made’s Warung is my favourite Indonesian restaurant in Seminyak for good reason—their fried rice is super delicious,...

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Back row: Clive Ruddock, Tasha Cyril, Sim Walker, and Glenn Wilson. Front row: Yusef Walker and Sopeak PangPhotograph by Melissa Alexander I am the daughter of a Jamaican immigrant mother who cooks almost as instinctively as she breathes. No one ever goes hungry around her. It’s why I had always shied away from Caribbean restaurants: None ever came close to matching Mom’s home-cooked concoctions. But I couldn’t help being curious about the oxtail hummus served with roti at APT 4B, an Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Buckhead. The dish is an amalgamation of one of Mom’s best traditional recipes and one of...