About last weekend …

Birthday brunch with Bill

Ingredients:

1 kg of home-grown / organic limes (I use the sweet, yellow-skinned variety that we grow at Hōkio Beach) 2 kg of sugar 4 cups of hot water

Recipe

• Slice the 1kg limes with a mandolin, and chop roughly; reserve the juice created.
• Place chopped limes in a large casserole dish with the 4 cups of water and bring to the boil; then add the reserve lime juice. (If you want you can add extra squeezed juice of 2–3 limes for extra tartness at this point).
• Add 2kg of sugar, stir in, and hard boil for 5–10 minutes - ensure you reach 104C (the sugar set point)
• Pour the hot liquid into pre-sterilised preserving jars, seal and allow to cool. You will need around twelve 250ml jars.

You can adjust all the quantities - e.g. 500g of limes; 1kg of sugar; 2 cups of hot water; 6+ jars - as needed.

Hōkio Lime Marmalade.

Spring flowers in the Eketāhuna country cottage garden.

#garden #spring #flowers #eketahuna #eketāhuna

Spring in the Eketāhuna country cottage garden.

#spring #blossom #garden #eketahuna #eketāhuna

Sliver moon, Wellington NZ

Leeds Street, winter’s evening.

Eating Lima July 2024 crew:

Bill, Linda, Rodrigo, Janice, Catherine, Jonny, Sue and Scott

Exquisite dining experience at Mérito restaurant. Exceptional decor, assured expertise from the staff, deep food and beverage knowledge from our head waiter and sommelier, and truly inspiring, delicious and memorable food and drink.

Undoubtedly one of the best anywhere.

#food #wine #restaurant #dining #experience #service #equisite #exceptional #barrancolima #lima #perú

mi ángel, mi diablo 🥰

Lunch at Isolina, Barranco district, Lima, Perú.

isolina.pe

A walk in Barranco district, Lima Perú

Segunda cena - second dinner - at Panchita - www.panchita.pe

Bill at the Larco Museum

Larco Museum , Lima Perú - www.museolarco.org/en/

Lunch at La Mar - lamarcebicheria.com/en/Lima

Streets of Lima - wonderful architecture of the Miraflores district. Bill points out the interesting points.

First archaeological site in Perú - Huaca Pullcana adobe-brick pyramid of the Lima culture (cAD200-700).

Delights of the Surquillo Markets. Incredible food diversity.

Extraordinary dinner at Osaka Nikkei restaurant.

Bill enjoyed his grilled sandwich

Bill arrives in Lima, Peru 🇵🇪

Brief stay in Miami at the fabulous Mr C Coconut Hotel - with a wonderful 2pm laaaate checkout to match out 10 hour delayed arrival at 7am.

Amazing pool & swim too!

10 hour delay in Houston Airport due to the global CrowdStrike IT outage. Great G&Ts from a fab bartender still working at 2am!