Foodie Friday: Shashlik

Foodie Friday: Shashlik

If you’ve been following this blog for any amount of time you probably know that we break one of the most widely recognized travel rules at almost every chance we get-eating street food. Now we’ve written about our adoration of street food before and certainly Danny’s constant attraction to meat on a stick, so its [...]

Foodie Friday: Biltong

Foodie Friday: Biltong

When we were at our first Braai a few weeks ago biltong was mentioned but we’d yet to try it. Similar to beef jerky, but made of just about anything, our CS hosts ensured we went to Mozambique with a good supply of the stuff. When we ran out, some other South Africans staying at [...]

Foodie Friday: Braai & Boerewors

Foodie Friday: Braai & Boerewors

One of the things we missed out on while we were in Argentina was taking part in an asado. This is the Argentine version of our Bar-B-Q and although we’d had enough meat we would have liked to enjoy one first-hand during our 6 weeks in the country. Imagine our surprise then when on day [...]

Foodie Friday – The Other Meats

Foodie Friday – The Other Meats

As we travel we obviously like to try the different foods an area offers.  Often this goes beyond just the cooking style or cuisine of an area.  In the Andes we were able to try Llama and Alpaca (even on a pizza in Bolivia) and weren’t permitted to leave Peru without trying Cuy (guinea pig).  [...]