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 ...
Sep 16
7
Charcuterie | Eggs | Tapas bar | Traditional Spanish Recipes
The most important meal of the day? Breakfast, of course! We are usually in a hurry in the morning and my breakfast is a café con leche with 2 or 3 cookies, that's it. Not enough fuel to deal with the morning routine because we have lunch at 14:00. However, there's ...
Jun 14
15
Fish, seafood & shellfish | Legumes | Tapas bar | Traditional Spanish Recipes
This is a traditional Catalan dish. Its literal translation would be: Stoned; meaning done with stones. Maybe paved would be a closer translation. A funny name for a dish! The recipe is really easy, with no cooking involved, perfect for a starter and a suitable choice for the summer. If ...
May 27
16
Fish, seafood & shellfish | Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | Traditional Spanish Recipes
Check all the ingredients of the recipe and see how healthy this dish is! We've got Olive oil, ripe tomatoes, fresh rock fish, some fresh seafood, garlic and onion, nuts... Who wants a generous serving? Hand me your plates please ;D....
Apr 13
8
Fish, seafood & shellfish | Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | Tapas bar | Traditional Spanish Recipes
Is Mediterranean diet the best choice for your health? Yes, without any doubt!!! Take this dish as an example: it has Octupus (some sea proteins), potatoe (some tubercle), calçot or green onion (healthy vegetables), romesco sauce ( extra virgin olive oil, garlic, nuts, peppers...); an amazing compendium!...
Apr 06
16
This is one of those dishes that takes you 10 minutes to prepare if you use canned chickpeas and bagged spinachs; but if you want to boil your own chickpeas and clean the spinachs leaves... it takes much more! So, this is up to you. Are you in a hurry? Try ...
Feb 16
19
Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | Traditional Spanish Recipes
Representing Spain and more specifically Catalonia, here is my dish for the BloggerAid Changing the Face of Famine Culinary Olympics 2010. Xató is a rich salad made out of curled endive, desalted cod, olives, ...
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 ...
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....
May 28
23
Soups, salads, vegetables & potatoes | Tapas bar | Traditional Spanish Recipes
VISCA EL BARÇA!!!! ♫ COPA ♪ LLIGA ♫ I CHAMPIONS ♪ I couldn't help it :D. Barça is my Team! For those of you not in the know, I'm talking about football :D. Escalivada is a typical Catalan dish made out of Roasted Peppers, Eggplant, Onion, Tomatoes,... ...