Oct 17
4
Meat & poultry | Traditional Spanish Recipes
Let's get in the Halloween mood... call me creepy if you want to... but now and only because death is like "the thing" these coming days, I have prepared for you all kind of dreadful ways to die and this poor chicken served my purposes. Some of these methods were ...
Nov 27
4
I'm always searching for healthier cookies, still haven't found one that has just symbolic butter... any ideas? But the other day I bumped into this site: Moveable Feasts, and reading the ingredients of this Anise and Fennel Cookies I just knew these ones would be in my oven ...
Oct 28
2
I know I shouldn't be baking cookies... most of all because we... EAT THEM! But, with the change of the season I become so active; I don't know what it is but it's always been like this. I have to do something! Years ago, I would change the position of ...
Oct 14
2
Finally temperatures have dropped a bit, finally it feels like Autumn! It's a time of change... a time to give the wardrobe a twist, a time to use different and seasonal groceries and food. While I think about different ways I could prepare our Panellets (Catalan sweet typical ...
Sep 17
6
Traditionally we use more Olive oil than butter, we do have some influences from the French cuisine and therefore butter is used in some recipes, but Olive oil is a Must in every Spanish kitchen! We use it every day for frying, for salad dressings, for softening the vegetables, for ...
Jul 07
0
Too many ripe bananas in your pantry/freezer? Bake a CAKE! Too many clouds in the sky? Bake a CAKE! Too many things bothering you? Bake a CAKE! Too many days without making yourself a gift? Bake a CAKE! Too many shirts piling up to get ironed? Bake a CAKE! It works ...
Feb 20
5
I love the Suits Television series, the two lawyer main characters have such personality and dialogues; I love to see it without the Spanish translation... this is something we normally do here: Tvs buy the American, French, whatever foreign series and then translate into our language. Lots of jokes, ...
May 07
3
One of the days I enjoy the most is Sant Jordi, April 23rd. Here in Catalonia is a big Feast and if the weather is right, thousands of human beings stroll up and down the Barcelona's Ramblas like Serengeti wildebeest; males looking for roses and females in the search of ...
Apr 16
6
And you may wonder, what does this cupcake to do with Spanish Cuisine? Well, it happens to be that Jordi Roca from El Celler de Can Roca, second best restaurant in the world according to I don't know which guide/list and with 3 Michelin Stars, published some time ...
Apr 04
7
The baking fever goes on and on... I tried this classic yogurt cake with the perfect outfit: Chocolate! I changed a few things from the original recipe to improve the cake... and voila, it was soooo good!!! I succeeded! We had a small piece each after lunch and it was ...