A winter weekend soup that can more or less be an entire meal is a dried bean soup from Andalusia. Dried beans are popular everywhere in the Mediterranean. They also have a flavor a tad different than the fresh bean, which means they are ideal in earthy and deeply flavorful soups such as this one […]
Why Not Grill Asparagus?
If you have a grill blazing away any of these summer weekends it seems a waste not to grill everything. There are some foods you may not have thought of as suitable for the grill. One of those foods is certainly asparagus. Espárragos a la parilla, asparagus on the grill, is a grilled asparagus that […]
Put Away the Recipe and Try Spain’s Grand (and Historic) Cuisine
As cooks, we are naturally drawn to recipes. Recipes are instructions to be followed to create a dish. However, to be a better cook, to gain insight into a culinary culture, which is, after all, whence all cooking springs, I believe it is helpful to put aside our recipes occasionally. Recipes are like fireflies that […]
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