My name is Nanette and Gourmet Worrier is where I write about food, family, life and travel. You can also connect with me on Facebook and/or on Twitter. You can find all my recipes here, subscribe to my RSS feed or you can choose the 'Daily Feed' option and have posts delivered to your inbox. If you wish to contact me directly you can do so via the contact page.


I dislike small mindedness, ironing, being stuck in traffic, gossip, waste, cliques, clichés, landfill and offal.

I love stillness, serenity, simplicity, Fussy & Hoover, lemon tart, organic chocolate, taleggio cheese, parma ham, stone fruit, berries, Maltese bread, the miraculous, Hilliard Ensemble, salt, lemons, pomegranates, slow food, cloudberries, popping bubble wrap, Prefab Sprout, ilma zaghar, Portofino, Sorrento, Capri, The Amalfi Coast, white washed walls, Santorini, The Blue Nile, Gaudi, Barcelona, olive oil, Campari, Ramla, Mdina, St Juilians, Sicilian olives, conversation, Mother Teresa, the communion of saints, mosaics, blood oranges, Rome, St Francis, Miffy, Spanish food, Kinnie and an old villa in the Mediterranean where I can plant olive trees that will out live me.