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Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | Traditional Spanish Recipes

Calçots in Tempura

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 ...

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Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | Traditional Spanish Recipes

Winter’s favorite Soup

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 ...

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Cakes, pies & tarts | Traditional Spanish Recipes

Coca de Llardons – Cake of Greaves

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 ...

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Meat & poultry | Traditional Spanish Recipes

Beef’s tongue with the best Vinaigrette ever

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 ...

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Meat & poultry | Rice & pasta | Traditional Spanish Recipes

Wheat flour and organic Noodles with Rabbit

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 ...

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Fruits | Meat & poultry | Traditional Spanish Recipes

Duck with Pears aromatized with anise

Would you (American readers) consider cooking duck instead of turkey this coming Thanksgiving? Or is it part of the tradition to eat turkey on a day like this? Even though, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, we do celebrate Christmas and I'm starting to sharpen my knives and bring the huge pots and ...

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Charcuterie | Fish, seafood & shellfish | Tapas bar | Traditional Spanish Recipes

Sobrassada Stuffed Squid

Sobrassada Stuffed Squid... the 3 S... like in Superb, Savory and Seasonal! Yes, it might look a bit scary, but this size of squid is far from making me swim faster. I would have more doubts if I bumped into one of those super large ones from deep deep inside the ...

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Fish, seafood & shellfish | Legumes | Traditional Spanish Recipes

Lentils Stew with Cod and Potatoes

A lentils stew is always so hearty and comforting. I love them so much that I devour them in no time. I don't give the 20 minutes my brain needs to process I'm full, and at minute 10 I'm already having my second plate. Lentils make me behave like Winnie ...

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Bread, pizza, quiches & sandwiches | Fish, seafood & shellfish | Tapas bar | Traditional Spanish Recipes

Empanadillas de atún – Tuna patties

There must be something in the tuna... is this an obsession? Two dishes in a row with tuna... do you believe the body is wise and tells us what we need to eat? If so, why does it sometimes tell me to eat a chips' bag?  Whatever the answer is; ...

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Fish, seafood & shellfish | Traditional Spanish Recipes

Fresh Tuna in Escabeche (pickle)

I went to my favourite fish shop and fell in love with a wonderful piece of fresh tuna. It wasn't my first choice; in fact I had planned a white fish menu but I might have both: grilled white fish and blue fish in a pickle... or as we say ...

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