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I like food. It's a well-known fact. I like cooking, I like going to restaurants, I like experimenting in the kitchen.

A combination of a new colleague asking me why I didn't blog about food and the fact that I spent an hour eating a salad last night has brought me to this - foodomnom. I have been told that I am a foodie before, but what exactly I hope to achieve with this blog, I am not sure. I will post some recipes, some pictures, experiments and the like and also photos of nice food and things like that. I am by no means an expert; it's just nice to write about something I like.

So anyway, I went to the market today. Having eaten the fridge clean of fresh food in last night's mega-salad, I decided a trip to the Isemarkt. The Isemarkt is a must for anyone visiting Hamburg. It takes place on Tuesday and Fridays under the U3 train line between Eppendorfer Baum and Hӧheluftbrücke. The train line in between these two stops is about 1km long and it is outside, so when the weather is nice (like it was today), it is a thoroughly pleasant experience. I only recently discovered it, and I am trying to make a habit of wandering through there, listening to people, smelling the smells and looking at all the beautiful colours – be they flowers, fruit or herbs and spices (this is just an example of the fabulous things on sale).

I met my friend Heather at Hӧheluftbrücke, and we took our time strolling through the stands, getting overly excited by all the flavours and things on sale, getting hungrier the further we went down the market. We each bought a punnet of the strawberries you can see in the picture and I bought some vegetables. The problem at markets when you are hungry is that you just want to buy everything, particularly when it looks so good! I bought some courgettes, aubergine and peppers at one of the vegetable stands –the guy was so smiley, I couldn’t help but buy things.

By this point, Heather and I were starving, so we stopped half-way down the market at a café two doors down from a shop called “snotty” (the name of this shop is very misleading, it actually sells clothes). I found this place through a friend who I met through the Hamburg International Women and it does the most fabulous sour dough bread. I’d never had it before, but I just can’t help myself when I go there – with goat’s cheese, honey and pears. It is a FABULOUS combination and brought about that wonderful feeling of satisfaction one gets when you’ve eaten great food.

Following this, we continued on our wanderings through the market, passing a mini cupcake stand. The actual shop is in Eimsbüttel, and I do believe I visited it with Talia. They are so cute and there is such a delicious looking selection. I bought some more other things, such as cheese (from the French speciality stand, and got to practice my French) and sweet potatoes.

I realised that there are plenty of other things I forgot to buy this morning – and I also need to decide what I am going to have for dinner tonight – there is an overwhelming choice! So off I go :)