Mandarins have just started to make their way back into the shops and markets of Spain and I fell for a special offer to buy 2kg of the things. That´s a kilo more than my husband and I could feasibly eat in a week so I have a search for things to do with them … Continue reading
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Watermelon, goats cheese and green bean salad
This isn’t a traditional Spanish recipe but it uses some of the most widely available Spanish summer ingredients and has become one of my favourite salad recipes as it’s super refreshing. I’ve also added peeled and diced cucumber if I have it on occasion but it’s not essential. Ingredients (serves 2 as a main course … Continue reading
Cold soup
When it´s 35ºC in the shade and your flat features the small, windowless kitchen beloved of Spanish architects, making meals that don´t require you to turn on the oven is not laziness, it´s self preservation. As turning on my oven results in clouds of acrid smoke and beads of perspiration pouring from places in my … Continue reading
Razor clams, phallic sand dwelling creatures from outer space
Navaja means blade or razor and like the English razor clam, it refers to that most phallic of sand dwelling creatures. My local fish stall was selling them at a special price today so I thought I´d give them a go. They weren´t exactly cheap but 14€ for a kilo of super fresh clams seemed … Continue reading
Olives and other sweets
The Spanish word for olive, aceituna, comes, like many of my favourite Spanish words, from Arabic. Az-Zait, which means the juice of the olive, gave Spanish the word aceite, which now refers to any type of oil, but in Spain, usually olive, used liberally in both sweet and savoury dishes. Aceitunas, or olives themselves, are … Continue reading