Nov 28
3
Meat & poultry | Rice & pasta | Traditional Spanish Recipes
I love cooking "fideus a la cassola" or paella on weekends for lunch, when there's plenty of time and we start eating between 15:00 and 16:00... There is nothing more relaxing than being in the kitchen with my thoughts, preparing the dishes for the family with some music on the ...
Nov 08
7
My monument to the Italian Risotto! What a delicious dish it is... that flavored creamy rice can make parents and kids delight. Those who follow this blog know about my rice weakness. I can't help it... when I see a rice dish in a restaurant menu; I have to taste ...
Apr 18
19
Rice & pasta | Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes
Let everything you are doing aside, please; pay full attention to this recipe/post! Still don't know what to do today for dinner? Pleaseeeeee, notice that this recipe is one of the easiest and fastest and "deliciousnest" you will find in the net! Let's see, do you have a lemon, an avocado, ...
Feb 23
17
Fish, seafood & shellfish | Rice & pasta | Traditional Spanish Recipes
Eventhough it's still February and this Winter has been loooooong, weeeeeet and cooooooooold, I just saw the first bloomed almond trees and swallows. What can this mean? Yes, Spring is so near now! Oh, sun, dear sun... I missed you soooooo! February is the month for Squilla Mantis, a delicious ...
Feb 02
22
Fish, seafood & shellfish | Rice & pasta | Traditional Spanish Recipes
I haven't been cooking with Cod lately... and you all know that I love it... so, when I saw Eating Club Vancouver's Spanish Menu, I knew my next dish would use Cod in it :D. You are my muses, girls!!! You know ...
Jan 19
16
Fish, seafood & shellfish | Rice & pasta
Sushi is such an harmonic, balanced, healthy, beautiful and amazing combination of elements! Please, Japanese readers and bloggers, forgive my impudence... I'm sure you prepare it better and you have the proper names for all its variations; I just can't help it: I fell in love with it, and I ...
Jan 09
14
Rice & pasta | Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | Traditional Spanish Recipes
These shell shaped pasta are called Galets here in Catalonia. They are the pasta we throw into our Christmas rich Stock. This year, the city of Barcelona has used them as an icon for the Holidays. They were giant and strategically set in different hot city spots! ...
Dec 10
26
Last week, after lunch and while watching TV, we bumped into the wonderful film: Gone with the Wind. I cannot help it, I must watch it... no matter how many times I cried with it... I have to cry and cry again and wonder how life and people has changed ...
Nov 28
22
Fish, seafood & shellfish | Rice & pasta | Traditional Spanish Recipes
My Chef's "Muse": Anthony Bourdain I've been hearing a lot about Anthony Bourdain for some time now, but never saw him on TV (I cannot see the No Reservations Tv program here), never read any of his books, never had lunch at his restaurant Les ...
Sep 23
24
Rice & pasta | Traditional Spanish Recipes
There is some confusion with Rossejat de Fideus and Fideuà. In Catalan, fideus means noodles, so both dishes have noodles as main ingredient. The difference lies in the size of the noodle, the way to cook it, the ingredients and the procedure of the dish....