You may know from reading my blog, that earlier this year a group of friends and I started a Food Safari, meaning that each month we get to travel the world using our kitchen and taste buds.
Each month one of us chooses a country and we all get get cooking to make a dish or two plus drinks. Then we get together and eat! So far we have travelled from India to Cambodia to Peru. And today, I’m going to be sharing our Italian and Mexican evenings with you ~ spoiler: they were delicious!
Italian night
Usually we get together as a group of six girls but for this occasion we invited our partners meaning there was a huge quantity of food and it was all divine. Ready?!…
Erin and Kito’s bruschetta to start. Served with artichoke and mint dip.
… and Leah’s tomato and basil salsa.
Carlos’ veggie lasagne made from scratch
Florence’s beetroot and goats cheese salad
Florence’s flavorsome aubergine salad
Steph and José’s sweet potato gnocchi 
My aubergine and ricotta cannelloni
All washed down with Dayan’s amazing cocktails
And finished with Erin’s pana cotta 
And Leah and Alex’s Zabaglione
As if all of that wan’t good enough… the month after we travelled to Mexico for another delicious evening.
Mexican evening
My black bean and poached egg soup
Florence’s kidney bean dip
Steph’s Fish a la Veracruzana
and her veggie version with tofu
Florence’s salsa…
… and guacamole!
With tacos and cheese
Leah’s soy mince tacos
YUM! And I’m already excited for this month’s edition, where we will be cooking middle eastern food.
Where are your cuisine suggestions?
Check out our previous food safaris: India | Cambodia | Peru
Marcella xx
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My coworkers and I will so have an international food night! I can’t wait! #WanderfulWednesday
Enjoy it! It’s a great way to socialise 🙂
looks delicious! though we have Mexican food safari at my house at least once a week 😉
Ahh nice! That sounds like a delicious idea!!
Oh yum! I really shouldn’t have read this post when I was hungry! I used to have party packs for international food nights. We took things one step further and dressed in traditional dress, and in the party pack there was a CD with music from that country, a trivia quiz about the country and some really fun games. We had such a laugh. Mexican, Indian and Italian were our faves!
I got hungry putting this post together too! That sounds so fun! 🙂 I love the idea of adding games and things too.
great idea! yummy!
Thanks! It’s always delicious!
That’s such a great idea. When I was at the uni, we occasionally did similar thing. Though, our potluck dinners didn’t look as delicious as your food safari. 🙂 #WanderfulWednesday
Pot lucks sounds fun! I haven’t done one of those in a while.
This is such a great idea Marcella. Yum, yum and yum… 🙂 #wanderfulwednesday
It’s always so delicious and the cooking is fun too!!
This is such a brilliant idea! I’m going to arrange something similar with my friends, my mouth is already watering…
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Yay! I’d love to see what you guys cook up, we can share country ideas 😉
This is actually the coolest thing I’ve seen all morning!! A food safari is a fantastic idea. And you can never go wrong with Italian night 😀
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Aww thanks! I’m so so glad my friend suggested starting it as I look forward to it every month 😀
That Mexican night looks absolutely divine! If I could eat chips and salsa for the rest of my life, I know that I’d be so happy! I love that y’all do this and I think that it’s such a fun way to experience food from around the world with great friends!
It’s so much fun and we get to cook and eat such a wide variety of yummy foods! 😀
Such a great idea, although now I’m hungry!
Thanks! I got hungry writing this post too!
The lady that prepared the guacamole knows what she is doing (she left the avocado pits in the guacamole). I love reunions like these. In my experience, I have been able to try delicious food in gathering like this. Sometimes you would not even find this stuff in restaurants.
Yes!! I only learnt that trick in Chile, it keeps it fresh for so much longer 🙂 And yes, I love the variety of food as it means we get to taste much more than in restaurants!
I so love this tradition! It’s so fun and such a great way to “Travel” without traveling and learn to cook a variety of different foods. These two happen to be two of my favorites too- I think I could live on Italian food and Mexican combined! Can’t wait to see what you come up with for Middle Eastern! I imagine there will be some yummy hummus involved 😛
They were both soooo yummy! And yesss, there is going to be so much deliciousness for the next food Safari, so much hummus!!
My two favorite cuisines 😉 I once again love this idea – I think once I’m settled in one place again I really need to start my own food safari! (Also – I am in Italy atm and see aubergines served evvvverywhere, and you had a lot of them too at your food safari, but it’s taken me all these years to realize they are an italian food!!)
Definitely do it! It’s so much fun and you can have a gluten free one 🙂 You are so right, I don’t usually think of aubergines as Italian either! Hope you are loving Italy!!
What a fun idea! I’m curious to see what y’all make for Middle Eastern night. I love eating it out but we never make anything middle eastern at home.
Yay, I’m so excited! I have a feeling it’s going to be delicious 🙂
YUM. These all look so great and as ever I love how many veggie options you have! Especially for the Italian night, so often that can be a total meat fest and it doesn’t need to be at all. The sweet potato gnocchi look divine, and any chance you’d post the recipe for the black bean and poached egg soup…??
There are two veggies in the group so we tend to make everything meat free, yay!
I based my soup around this recipe: https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/costa-rican-black-bean-soup/
Enjoy!!
Italian and Mexican food is the best! Looks like foodie heaven to me 🙂 We recently discovered a cultural cafe here in Stavanger where they serve food from around the world every Saturday on the cheap and it’s an amazing experience, much like your evenings I reckon 🙂
Ohh yum! I hope you get to explore lots of delicious cuisine! 🙂
Love reading about your food safaris, Marcella. The food always looks so appetizing and I love the overall idea so much 🙂 xoxo
Thanks Nano! They are always a highlight of my month!
Oh my gosh that looks so delicious!! I told my friends about this and we want to start doing it too every month 🙂
You should! I’m excited to see how it goes for you 🙂
Love all the food! Such a great idea too 🙂
Thanks! It’s always a fun highlight of my month 🙂