2 posts from day 07/09/2015

Cat Island & Conch With Egg Sauce & Caviar

I live on a remote island in the Bahamas called Cat Island. Not to be mistaken for Cat Key, an upscale expat development close to Bimini. Cat Island is a big island with few people. 60 miles long and very narrow with 1200 inhabitants. Paradise on earth, as far as I am concerned. Turquoise water, swaying palms, pink sand beaches and summer all year long. But even paradise has its serpents. We live a long way from a decent supermarket, and although the grocery stores on the island - ... Continue Reading

About Me

The first time I tried to cook, I was 18 growing up in Sweden. I was never in the kitchen as a kid with my mother or any other relatives like the famous chefs of today. On the contrary, I was more or less told to stay away, since my family had a very strict, stubborn and unimaginative help in the kitchen. She boiled the cod until it fell apart in the pot and the macaroni she served could easily rival the stuff in the school dining room. So the first time I tried, I was trying to impress a ... Continue Reading