A couple sweet little meals out of a stranger's kitchen

When you require a home cooked meal on the road.

Cooking in a strange kitchen is a delightful task. It asks of the cook to limit what they might conjure creatively and focus in on simplicity - in both flavor and prep.

Meals cooked under these circumstances, in an ill equipped kitchen and typically on vacation, have been some of my favorites. Being on vacation no doubt adds a glossy film to my memories, but the constraints provide a clarity to meals I find rapturous.

With that in mind, I wanted to share two very simple techniques for cooking on the go.

These kinds of recipes are not necessary for a short getaway. A trip of only a few days means you’re likely in a hotel and eating your meals in a restaurant. But for longer trips (of which I am a fan), the accommodations may be an AirBNB, a rented home, or an apartment style hotel with a kitchen. Eating every meal in a restaurant when you’re away for a month is not only insanely expensive, but it’s taxing to the gut. Restaurant food is always going to be richer and more aggressively seasoned than the food you cook at home.