Fideuá is a really tasty alternative to paella using vermicelli noodles or fideos pasta instead of rice. A one-pot wonder from Valencia on Spain’s southeastern coast.
Recipes
Grilled Baby Squid
Grilled baby squid is very easy and fast. You only need extra virgin olive oil, some garlic, a little parsley and salt flakes.
Spanish Style Slow Roast Lamb and Beans
Traditionally cooked Spanish roast lamb for a spectacular Sunday dinner or alternative Christmas feast.
Spanish Almond Cookies
Spanish almond cookies or polvorones are a very soft and crumbly type of shortbread made of four basic ingredients: pork lard, flour, sugar and cinnamon.
Polvo in Spanish means powder or dust and these cookies crumble to dust in your mouth when eaten.
Adobo Marinade for Chicken
An adobo marinade for pork, beef or chicken, a combination of spices and vinegar and olive oil. Intensely flavoured with paprika and chipotle. Usually, the adobo combines dry spices along with vinegar or wine and olive oil.
Devilled Eggs Spanish Style
This recipe is quick to make and bright addition to any lunchtime meal. Make them and learn why devilled eggs with tuna are a Spanish favourite.
Spanish Fish and Shellfish Soup
This Spanish fish and shellfish soup combines fish, clams and prawns with white wine and rice for a rich and really tasty dish.
Serrano Ham with Melon
Salty and full of flavour, Serrano ham makes an excellent contrast with juicy honeydew melon.
Do Christmas Dinner Spanish Style
🎄When to Eat? To do Christmas dinner Spanish style, you eat on Christmas Eve unlike here in the UK where we traditionally eat in the middle of Christmas day. 🎄A Bit of Family History At my parent’s house, we ate at 1:00 pm prompt. Overcooked dry turkey, soggy bitter whole […]
12 Grapes for New Year: A Spanish Tradition
Lucky Grapes Eating 12 grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve is the traditional way to welcome the New Year in Spain. The grapes are considered lucky las doce uvas de la suerte (“the 12 lucky grapes”). They have to be eaten one at a time with each of the […]
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I’m a retired aeronautical engineer living in Tunbridge Wells, England. I love cooking and food history.
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