Apr 14
4
Fish, seafood & shellfish | Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes
Here you have an easy and impacting dish to do for a celebration, a holiday, a party… Vichyssoise with Lobster soup! You know that I rather prepare my food at home, but sometimes I get lazy and take advantage of modern life and huge supermarkets with all kind of canned ...
Dec 06
2
Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | The bases | Traditional Spanish Recipes
In my opinion, some of the most joyful aromas you can smell during Winter time are: The burning wood’s smoke going through the village house’s chimmeneys. The scent of the pine trees while wandering through the Christmas street markets. The wonderful and comforting aroma of a winter boiling stock as you enter the ...
Sep 23
2
Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | Traditional Spanish Recipes
Summer is over! I'm welcoming the cold, the blankets, the jackets, the boots... and the wild mushrooms, the comfort food, the pumpkins... but before that, and seeing that our weather doesn't care about Fall rules (we are having beautiful hot days) I want to show you one of our Traditional ...
Sep 10
1
Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes
What Color Is Your Diet? This is the tittle of a book published in 2001 by David Heber, MD, where he wrote about the benefits of a colored diet... 12 years later, I have started to hear ...
Jul 23
0
Rice & pasta | Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes
It's taken me a while to write a new post... it's just too hot in here! Thank god air conditioning has been invented because my brain would probably melt if I had to live without it. Why kitchens are not taken into consideration when we think about installing air conditioning... ...
Mar 11
5
Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes
Yes, I'm going back to the Winter dishes. March is usually like this in Barcelona: one day looks like Spring and next day, temperatures go down and we have to get our thick coats on again. My parents are coming home tomorrow for the day and I made this one specially ...
Jul 04
7
Fish, seafood & shellfish | Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes
Raw food is fashionable. Raw food is easy to "cook" and prepare. Raw food is supposed to be healthier. Raw food takes full advantage of all ingredient's benefits. Are you in the mood for a Salad? Raw salmon and avocados and green onions combine ...
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 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 ...
Jun 01
8
Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes
Finally the German authorities agreed and confessed that Spanish Cucumbers were not causing the deaths for E. Coli infection. How could they blame on our Cucumbers the E. Coli deaths so easily? How come they didn't make sure first with some analytics? Well, ...