Lil’ Chef Wannabe’s

2nd Session during Carnival break During today’s session the young chefs made:potato soup; pork belly tray bake with onions and tomatoes; chocolate pudding. Knife skills were used here while cutting the onions. The knife point is sharp and one wee chef did manage to draw a little blood on the finger holding the onion! The…

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Easter Egg Snorkle Hunt Divi

The 6th annual eggsnorkle took place on Easter Monday. What a grand event it was. This fundraising event was well attended – better than ever, in fact – and The Nature Foundation will receive much needed funds. The egg hunt has changed little over the years except for one big improvement – no actual eggs…

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Azul – Sonesta, Maho

Chefs Night – dining supremely. Chefs Night event returns for the 4th time to the all-inclusive, adults-only Sonesta Ocean Point Resort. Hosted by Chef Görgen Tiden and Chef Jimmy Stening these events are delightful, to say the least. This year the Chefs Night had lots of meaning – it was a celebration of gastronomy from…

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L’Astrolabe – Chaine

Chaîne des Rôtisseurs Dinner Amicale Nearly 25,000 members make up the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs family world wide. The Chaîne des Rôtisseurs is an International Association of Gastronomy, established in over 80 countries. It brings together enthusiasts who share the same values of quality, fine dining, the encouragement of the culinary arts and the pleasures of…

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Be Kool

#Foodporn of SXM Fun in Marina Royale Righty-oh! At “Be Kool” we enjoyed a wonderful evening of friendship and really amazing food and service. I so enjoyed the evening, I forgot to take pictures of all the plates we had. I will need to post pics that others (who were there) took. We parked on…

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Sheer – Philipsburg

Foodporn evening at Sheer in Philipsburg SXM The restaurant Sheer has been in Philipsburg for many years and during that time we have seen a change of chefs. We had heard that there was a new chef (actually 2 new chefs) there now and so an evening at Sheer was on the cards. We were…

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Ladies Lunch on Enigma

Honestly, we do still have the best fun as we get older! The SXM Yacht Club had a lunch outing for the ladies on one of the best day-sailing catamarans on island. Enigma is run by Captain Neil. He happens to serve one of the very best on-board lunches. We eagerly headed out to enjoy…

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Lil’ Chef Wannabe’s DEC 2018

Four days of cooking, two before Christmas just in time to make cookies and two just before New Year perfect timing to make a little special something to celebrate with. The little chefs were thrilled to make and eat such an array of sweet biscuits from the biscuit baking workshop. Biscuit Making The Lil’ Chefs…

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Scratching off the Bucket List

Good Life, Good food, Good drink, Good places, Good people! Doing what I haven’t done before! Irma (the hurricane) is to blame! Doing what I haven’t done before I entered a chilli cookoff at The Yacht Club. I am not a chilli aficionado but coerced into the occasion I decided, after much deliberation, to do…

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