Taste With Colour

Wow! What an epic citrus tasting 🤩🍋‍🟩🍋🍊

I’ve always wondered… how do you describe the flavour difference between a lemon and a lime? Or a grapefruit and an orange?

From octopus-like Buddhas hand to finger limes, we tasted 20 different citrus varieties from thanks to .london 🤩

I’ve always thought that calamansis would be the next yuzu, but instead I was blown away by a shikwasa which was far more intense and complex with vegetal, bell pepper and tomato vine aromas and a super juicy mandarin and green pepper flesh.

Another standout was the flying dragon (or trifoliate orange) with a peach-like fuzzy skin and notes of sulphury tropical mango and passion fruit. 🥭

The Buddhas hand has no juice and the pith isn’t bitter. It’s has a crunchy apple-like texture with a perfumed, floral and slightly candied peel. I enjoyed the leftovers with some sea salt and olive oil as recommended by Shrub 👌🏼

The finger lime was slightly underwhelming in flavour complexity compared with other more aromatic limes like the makrut or rangpur. It was literally bursting out of its skin as soon as it was cut open. It was like eating a citrus popping candy with its sour caviar pearls. We agreed it was more of a textural experience.

Thanks so much Sam and Harry 🙏🏼

Do you stop to smell the roses? 🌹

Here I am, leaning over people’s front garden walls to smell different roses on a summer evening stroll. 👃🏼😅

Some smelled fruity and peach-like, while others had a fresher, greener aroma. The intensity of each rose’s perfume varied, too.

You become a sensory expert through experience, not certification.

Every day, we’re surrounded by opportunities to build our flavour “libraries.”

Did you know that “stop and smell the roses” is an idiom that reminds us to slow down and appreciate the beauty (or flavour, for us 😉) and little joys in life, rather than rushing through it? Building our sensory libraries is an opportunity to practice being present and to find moments of peace in our bustling, busy lives.

Heading to Amsterdam for a weekend at .nl! 🇳🇱✈️🌈💕

Taking a few prints with me. If you’d like to grab one without shipping let me know!

I have:
- English
- Dutch
- Spanish
- German
- French
- Portuguese
- Japanese
- Cacao Rainbow Watercolour Print (A4)
- Orange Cacao Pod Watercolour Print (A4)

Hope to see some of you there 🥰