Tag: Recipes

• Salmorejo: A Cold Soup for a Hot Spanish Summer

  

  Salmorejo is a cold tomato soup from Cordoba in the Andalusia region of Spain. Similar to gazpacho, but with fewer ingredients and a thicker consistency, this soup is perfect for the hot summer days typical of southern Spain. It is also a great way to enjoy the bounty of ripe tomatoes that summer brings. Salmorejo…

  Julia B. Wilde

  July 23, 2017

  Recipes, Spanish Food

  cooking, Food, Recipes, soup, Spain, Spanish Food, summer recipes, tomatoes

• Sea Urchin: How is this food?

  

  Sea Urchin Butter. Words I would never have put together. Now we have a log of it in our freezer and we’re melting it on top of all kinds of things, like seared scallops and pasta (recipes at the end of post). How did this happen? Like many people perhaps, our past experiences with sea…

  Julia B. Wilde

  April 30, 2017

  Recipes, Spain

  Food, Recipe, Recipes, scallops, Seafood, Spain, Spanish Food, uni, urchin

• Fabada Asturiana

  

  We’re saying goodbye to winter with one more hearty recipe. Spring may have arrived in Valencia, but if we were in the Asturias region of north-west Spain right now, we might still have several weeks of cold wet weather ahead of us. We would definitely want a bowl of Fabada Asturiana. The inhabitants of this…

  Julia B. Wilde

  April 2, 2017

  Recipes, Spanish Food

  Food, pork, Recipes, Spain, Spanish Food, stew

• Creamy Artichoke Soup

  

  Artichoke season is still going strong in Spain, with huge piles of them in the markets. Artichokes are a cold weather crop that are at their best from November to April. Once the weather heats up, the artichokes will grow too quickly, open their leaves and begin to transform into beautiful but inedible flowers. Artichokes…

  Julia B. Wilde

  February 19, 2017

  Recipes, Spanish Food

  artichokes, Food, Recipes, soup, Spain, Spanish Food

• Meloso with Pork and Artichokes

  

  Everyone knows that Valencia is famous for its paella, but there are actually multiple styles of rice dishes that are typical of Valencia including dry rices like paella, rices in broth called arroz caldoso, and arroz meloso. We have recently developed a love for meloso, the creamy rice that sits on the line between the…

  Julia B. Wilde

  January 22, 2017

  Recipes, Spanish Food

  artichokes, Food, pork, Recipes, rice, Spain, Valencia

• Zarzuela de Mariscos

  

  Valencia may have 320 days of sunshine a year, but sometimes it has to rain. We’ve had a spell of dreary weather with cold temperatures and rainy days that has us craving comfort food. We searched for a dish loaded with seafood that would also be hearty enough to warm our bones. We found Zarzuela…

  Julia B. Wilde

  December 18, 2016

  Recipes, Spanish Food

  cooking, Food, Recipes, Seafood, Spain, Spanish Food