From the category archives:
So, I’m on a little vacation across the way in Italy, and we go out to dinner the first night there. I’m thinking this is the hotel receptionists’ cousin or brother or something and that the food will be mediocre at best. Not. The place is a family place, but there are lots of locals, [...]
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Here’s the finishing touches to make a wonderful French Onion Soup, Spanish Style – in the Thermomix. Teresa is an incredible cook and this is a great example of the usefulness of the Thermomix. This soup is something she threw together on the spur of the moment, with ingredients she happened to have on hand. [...]
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I’m closing in on buying my very own Thermomix, so whenever I’m in Spain I ask my cooking buddy Teresa to teach me more recipes. Since fall is approaching, I thought it would be fun to show something simple and quick and warming. Besides, the ingredients just happened to be on hand in Teresa’s kitchen, [...]
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I’m terrible. I claim to love to cook, and yet I get busy and make excuses and reach for the telephone instead of the spatula. I know, I know, in the amount of time it takes for a pizza to be delivered, I could have a great dinner on the table. While I was in [...]
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Carrots aren’t exactly one of those menu items that gets me excited. Raw carrots right out of the garden? Crisp and sweet and really nice? Now that, I like. But cook up a carrot, no matter how perfectly you do it, and I’m usually not interested. Well, that is until I found these gems. I [...]
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If you haven’t seen Part 1 yet, scoot over there and check that one out first. Find it here. You lucky ducks that live somewhere that you can buy little fish give this a try and let me know how they come out on this side ‘o the pond. I’m so jealous… One caveat — [...]
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If you’re wondering what this has to do with Spain – – I’ll just tell you. Don’t get so huffy. I learned about Moroccan food in Spain. Two second history lesson — Moroccans controlled Spain off and on for…. well, for a whole bunch of years. I told you this was a short history lesson. [...]
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Part 1 If you love fish, but had a bad experience in college with anchovy pizza (oh wait, that was me… ) then you’ll want to see this series of short videos for how to make your own incredible Spanish Boquerones. That is, of course, if you’re fortunate enough to live somewhere that you can [...]
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My friend Fernando’s father is a restaurateur in Madrid (“I KNOW, RIGHT?”) and when he married his lovely wife Maria Jose (Ajo), she decided she wanted to learn from her father-in-law. Lucky for me, she also loves to share recipes. I can’t resist sharing a photo of Ajo in our kitchen a few weeks ago [...]
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That great plan that we had to try food from all over the world, paired with just the right wine from the same region, all in conjunction with various Worldcup matches, kinda got sidetracked a little bit by a couple of insanely crazy weeks. Getting that Executive Sommelier certification proved to be more important (and [...]
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