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Halibut with purple sprouting broccoli, salted anchovy and cream

Halibut is an expensive fish but it is the real deal and worth it. It has a firm texture, big flakes and a subtle flavour. However, if...

Sep 16, 20232 min read

Sardines escabeche - soused sardines with tomato toast

Obviously, recipes such as this, originated in preserving food and some might wonder what could be better than a fresh sardine grilled on...

Jul 30, 20232 min read

ARROZ CALDOSA - RICE COOKED WITH RED WINE

Arroz caldosa is a soupy rice. The liquid is added all at once and the rice and other ingredients are poached in it. This recipe is...

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Feb 24, 20212 min read

TORTILLA - AN UNDERRATED CLASSIC

TORTILLA Tortilla Espanyol is ubiquitous in Spain and after paella probably the peninsula’s most famous dish. In common with paella the...

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Feb 22, 20214 min read

SEAFOOD PAELLA

Fish based rice needs….. Fish stock This is different in many ways from chicken stock and in one fundamental way that has consequences....

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Feb 16, 20214 min read

MEAT PAELLA

If you are cooking a paella at home you will need.... a paella and preferably a gas hob. They make paella pans for electric hobs, which...

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Feb 14, 20215 min read

PAELLA LLENA Paella cooked over wood

Cooking over wooden flames is the original method and this is it is the classic, the ultimate, the dogs bollocks: using small pieces of...

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Feb 12, 20213 min read

HUEVOS A LA FLAMENCO - EGGS FLAMENCO

This is basically a stew of that triumvirate of Spanish vegetables, onions, peppers and tomatoes. With the addition of something green,...

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Feb 6, 20211 min read

ON THE ROAD

I used to buy produce from Spain directly, literally driving around in a refrigerated van purchasing goods, usually from Valencia,...

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Feb 5, 20211 min read

ESQUIXADA - A SWEET AND SALTY WINTER SALAD

The almond is in blossom, the nights are cold, but the days have already got that warmth that tells you the short winter is about to...

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Feb 1, 20211 min read

SOPA DE AJO - AN ALTERNATIVE TO PROZAC

There is alchemy in this recipe. Garlic, stale bread, olive oil, some light chicken stock, an egg and perhaps fifteen minutes. It defies...

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Feb 1, 20212 min read

LAMB, ARTICHOKE AND BEAN STEW

This is one of those dishes where you can just free style. There is no recipe, there are no ingredients. The method is what is important,...

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Feb 1, 20213 min read

FABADA ASTURIANA - THE DEFINITION OF A HEARTY MEAL

This is a classic Spanish dish, similar in some ways to the cassoulet of southern France. It is a big hearty pork stew with local white...

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Feb 1, 20212 min read

A TREAT FROM THE GAUDALQUIVIR

This is a classic from the south. I first had it in San Lucar de la Barrameda, the home of Manzanilla on the banks of the Guadalquivir,...

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Feb 1, 20211 min read

A GIFT FROM THE MOORS - RICE

February 2015, Gomera If I am to start this book I must start with that most Spanish dish, if indeed there is such a country: Paella. I...

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Aug 1, 20203 min read

SEVEN WAYS TO LOSE A LOVER

From a young age I have been immersed in cooking and eating. Not as a means of fuel to live, but as an emotional fuel. Jean, my mother...

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Jul 22, 20206 min read

PHILOSOPY

A little about the recipes and the food contained within. These are my recipes , plagiarised no doubt in a long line in the history of...

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Jul 22, 20203 min read

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Halibut with purple sprouting broccoli, salted anchovy and cream

Sardines escabeche - soused sardines with tomato toast

ARROZ CALDOSA - RICE COOKED WITH RED WINE

TORTILLA - AN UNDERRATED CLASSIC

SEAFOOD PAELLA

MEAT PAELLA

PAELLA LLENA Paella cooked over wood

HUEVOS A LA FLAMENCO - EGGS FLAMENCO

ON THE ROAD

ESQUIXADA - A SWEET AND SALTY WINTER SALAD

SOPA DE AJO - AN ALTERNATIVE TO PROZAC

LAMB, ARTICHOKE AND BEAN STEW

FABADA ASTURIANA - THE DEFINITION OF A HEARTY MEAL

A TREAT FROM THE GAUDALQUIVIR

A GIFT FROM THE MOORS - RICE

SEVEN WAYS TO LOSE A LOVER

PHILOSOPY

CONTACT

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