Feb 28
7
Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | Traditional Spanish Recipes
These are our famous sweet early onions called Calçots that we eat dipped in salsa romesco after they are cooked on the grill in special outdoor grills. If the weekend is sunny and you have a piece of land where you can set a grill, then get some ...
Feb 23
8
Have you tried to do this sushi upside down? It's called Uramaki and it's harder to roll than futomaki because the nori algae is not wrapping the rice here. Uramakis show the rice grains on their surface and are coated in fish roe or sesame seeds. It was hard ...
Feb 21
6
Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | Traditional Spanish Recipes
We, hot blooded animals; we, warm hearted Spaniards; we, passionate people; we... the ones who probably have more bars and terraces per square meter in the world; we have suffered this Siberian freezing snap that has left us shivering, freezing, trembling, cowering and afraid to go outside... Thank God we ...
Feb 16
7
Cakes, pies & tarts | Traditional Spanish Recipes
Today is Dijous Gras - Shrove Thursday (don't know if I got the good translation) and I nearly run out of time in performing this traditional Catalan sweet recipe. It's very common here in Catalonia to buy this "coca" in bakeries and have it for breakfast, as a dessert after ...
Feb 14
5
Magdalenas are our Spanish Muffins, although I see some differences between Magdalenas and Muffins. First of all, muffins look huge to me, magdalenas can be eaten in two bites :D. Also, there seems to be a great variety of muffins and if we add cupcakes then possibilities are endless; ask ...
Feb 09
7
Meat & poultry | Traditional Spanish Recipes
This is one of those veal's pieces that are sold in a special market shop. The meat shop where I buy calf, pig, lamb and colt doesn't sell these other special parts such as: tongue, liver, brain, lungs, guts, blood... In order to get them, you have to go to ...
Feb 03
7
The day I was born, a heavy snow storm whitened Barcelona. That was many years ago, and yesterday for my birthday, the snow showed again to say hello! Like a cake covered with iced sugar... everything looked so beautiful and sweet... it felt like Christmas again :D. We adults behave ...