Posted in Europe, Food Commentary, Garlic, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, barbecue, culture, delicacy, festival, festivals, fish, grilled, paprika, peppers, sauce, tradition, white bread, whole fish on Jul 22nd, 2008
As you know, we received a beautiful package from a fellow blogger in Spain and we have been slowly using all the contents in various meals. Another element of this package was a jar of Spanish Marcona almonds. These almonds are amazing on their own and taste incredibly different (sweeter and meatier) than the […]
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Posted in Europe, Garlic, Madrid, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, acorns, anchovies, appetizer, bread, culture, delicacy, easy, grilled, grilling, ham, holiday, iberico, jamon, pigs, pinchos, piquillo peppers, racione, tapas, tomato, tourism, tradition, travel on Jul 18th, 2008
Not long ago our good friend Nuria at Recipes Pic by Pic offered to do a food exchange with us, knowing both how obsessed we are with Spanish food and their comparative scarcity over here in the States. In return she asked that we send her some typical American products of our choice as well […]
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Posted in England, Food Commentary, Jose Andres, Spain, Squid, appetizer, beer, bread, capers, cheese, easy, eating, food, healthy, lemon, mackerel, manchego, morcilla, peppers, pinchos, pintxos, piquillo peppers, racione, sausage, savory, seafood, soccer, tapas on Jun 8th, 2008
In celebration of the start of Euro 2008 - the European soccer/football championships - yesterday, and in light of the fact that England failed to qualify because they were awful, I am in need of a team to follow, so have decided to become an honorary Spanish soccer fan for the next month, or however […]
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Posted in British, Garlic, Jamie Oliver, Meat, Mexican, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, Squid, calamari, chile, chipotle, easy, fish, food, grilled, grilling, lemon, morcilla, onions, parsley, racione, sauce, sausage, savory, seafood, spicy, tapas, tomato on Jun 4th, 2008
A lot of people love Jamie Oliver for his informal, cheekie-chappie attitude and antics, which they welcome as a nice break from the seemingly unapproachable TV chefs of the past. Personally, I find his mockney styles and instant familiarity grating, and have let this issue influence my opinion of his cooking. However, I’m big enough […]
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Posted in Castillano, Europe, Fino, Rachel Ray, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, blogging, castille, chicken, chicken stock, easy, food, hazelnuts, nuts, poultry, rant, saffron, tradition, wine on May 17th, 2008
Usually if I’m trying to make an authentic dish, I always try to make it just that - authentic. That means that I want to use traditional ingredients and I attempt to research the many traditional ways to make that specific dish. I then decide how to combine the best bits from all […]
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Posted in Clams, Madrid, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, Squid, calamari, easy, easy meal, fish, food, healthy, lemon, meal, peppers, restaurant, rice, soup, spices, tomato, vegetarian on May 5th, 2008
On our final day in Madrid, it was pissing down with rain. We spent about 4 hours walking around the Reina Sofia drooling over Picasso’s Guernica (the size of a giant museum wall) and the large amount of Dali and Miro works. We’re not really artsy-fartsy folks, but that museum made me wet myself with […]
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Posted in Asturias, Europe, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, cheap meal, easy, easy meal, fabada, food, french fries, fried, meal, offal, onions, paprika, parsley, restaurant, sauce, thyme, tradition, travel on Apr 18th, 2008
If you are a regular reader of our blog, perhaps you remember this post on my husband’s near-death by gluttony as he ate his way through a giant Asturian meal - fabada. While I had to listen to his groans and watch the thick beads of sweat roll down the side of his head […]
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Posted in Asturias, Jose Andres, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, apples, cabrales, cheese, easy, easy meal, eating, food, food TV, hazelnuts, healthy, herbs, nuts, salad, side dish, travel, vinaigrette on Apr 12th, 2008
There are some things that just strike you as being astonishingly simple, yet brilliantly devised. For example, the interface of an iPod- the way you use it - is unbelievably clever in its design. One “wheel” and one button, and that’s it. Everyone - even me - can figure it out in about 8 seconds. […]
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Posted in Castillano, Chorizo, Easter, Europe, Food Commentary, Italian, Italian-American, Italy, Lent, Recipe, Recipes, Saveur, Spain, bacon, baking, bread, cheap meal, cornmeal, culture, easy, egg, flour, food, holiday, indulgent meal, morcilla, tradition, unhealthy on Mar 21st, 2008
It was as if it was divine intervention. We finally found morcilla (see picture of sausages below - it’s the black one) in a specialty store up the block but we weren’t prepared to make a fabada or cocido - two other Spanish dishes which call for morcilla. I picked up one of my […]
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Posted in Asturias, Chorizo, Europe, Food Commentary, Madrid, Spain, alcohol, alcoholic drink, appetizer, beans, beverage, blood, chops, embarrassment, fabada, food, indulgent meal, lunch, morcilla, offal, pigs, pork, sausage, tapas, tourism, tradition, travel, unhealthy on Mar 7th, 2008
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
- William Blake
Have you ever thought, as you sit red-faced, breathing shallowly, “just… one… more… bite”? Have you ever then taken that extra bite and thought to yourself — in your blood-starved brain — “maybe, after all, I could manage another one”? And, finally, upon swallowing […]
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