Food glorious food

Glorious is a great word isn't it - I don't use it enough - expect to see ' I saw a glorious cathedral' more than once in the coming week's.

Anyway so where was I? Oh yes a favourite topic of mine- food. I'm on another bus trip today -heading ( finally) into El Salvador. That's country number quatro readers. These bus trips give your mind time to wander, and the one my mind seems to get to pretty often is what is next going to pass my lips.

For some people ( although admittedly not many of my friends - you are all greedy guts) food is just something
to give them energy. Not me - for me it's something to look forward to, get excited about and simply enjoy. I've always loved food - I love cooking, baking bread on weekends, making cakes for friends and as most of you know there's nothing I love more than having people over for dinner. So it's no surprise that I love eating local foods when I'm in new countries.

There are limits to this experimenting- I left the snake alone in Vietnam and cow's testicles were a bit much in China but on the whole I'm game so to speak.

Some of my happiest memories involve food. My top 5 food memories coming up:-

1. The Wolseley - boxing day 2011- fruit salad to die for, amazing company

2. My first steak in Buenos Aires - with Sharon - bife de lomo which utterly melted in my mouth. Estaba buenisimo

3. Yang Sing in Manchester - a graduation pressie from boyf at the time. Happy times. Beautiful food.

4. A strawberry Mochi in Gion train station in Tokyo with Maartje. Served by a blind lady - I expected this typical dessert to be good - but my god I'll never forget this - kind of like a raw floury doughnut filled with Cream and a whole strawberry. Light, fluffy and fresh.

5. Zuma with Dr Robby/ Robster or just Robby. My oldest, dearest friend and I have a continual battle over expensive restaurants. He loves them/ I find them pretentious. We agreed to go to Zuma. I was skeptical. I was very, very wrong. Sensational.

This trip some of the things that i've been loving have included:

Prawn ceviche made by the crew of the Ragga queen in Belize. Unbeliezable ( sorry I'm not going to tire of that one).

Tuna steak in Utila - at La Porchetta £4 for the biggest hunks of beautifully fresh tuna. Steaky, firm and delicious.

Felafel from Utltralight cafe, Utila. The sign said authentic Israeli food. If that's the case get me to Israel.

Anything served at Cafe Barista in Antigua.

El Salvador should give me lots of opportunity to try Pupusa's - round cornmeal dough filled with meat, cheese and that old favourite of refried beans. Come to Gemma, and bring a bottle of Golden beer along - we've got to celebrate these border crossings.

It's fair to say though that generally excitement levels over beans and rice have peaked.

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