Claudia&Julia's Blog

At home, when the cooler season arrives stews are made more often, and it is the perfect time to recall the recipe for papas en amarillo. In my homeland this very typical dish is prepared, which is very simple, tasty and economical. It has it all! It is a dish, as I tell you, very flavorful, and also eye-catching because of its colors.

These butter cookies are made with our cookie press — what do you think? A churrera is very similar to a cookie press in its operation: a tube with a plunger that pushes the dough through a die. A little bit of force and not much mystery.

The origin of flan goes back to the Romans, who prepared it both in sweet and savory versions. The sweet version was much sweeter than the one we know, as it was sweetened with honey. At first pepper was added—yes, pepper as you hear it—until pepper was replaced by the caramel used today.

With this mushroom soup with tomato we kick off the season of spoon dishes. Just into autumn it's time for a wardrobe change and also a change on the refrigerator shelves, which now hold the ingredients needed to prepare creams, stews, or legumes in a pressure cooker.

I confess I'm a coward and I didn't dare turn on the oven until the heat had eased a bit. That said, I was certain that when I did it would be to make this delicious Dutch Baby Pancake, and it was a complete success.

If there's an easy-to-make bread, it's undoubtedly Irish soda bread. Few ingredients, easy to find, that only need to be mixed, lightly kneaded, and baked. In half an hour of baking we have a delicious bread ready to eat. No waiting, proofing, complicated kneading techniques or anything like that.

Rabbit is one of my favorite meats, especially when we have barbecues at home. It's a white meat, low in fat and I find it very flavorful, especially when we help it with aromatics like rosemary and thyme. I also enjoy preparing it "al ajillo" (with garlic), with rice, or like today, with this Moroccan-style rabbit that almost cooks itself since I finished the cooking in the oven.

Today I bring you a basic lemon cake recipe, one of those must-haves in your recipe collection. It is a fluffy cake full of lemon juice flavor. Made with simple ingredients, it is a very easy cake to prepare but one of those recipes that everyone enjoys.

El arroz y costra or arroz con costra (depending on the municipality where we are) is without a doubt one of the most representative dishes of Alicante. This traditional rice is typical in the comarcas of the Vega Baja, Bajo Vinalopó and the Marina Alta.

Today we’re bringing a chicken tajine with pears and apples that’s going to drive you crazy. A very easy, slow-cooked recipe that yields a dish bursting with flavor.

These turkey and zucchini burgers are healthier than what we're used to in a burger. The recipe is from the famous chef Ottolenghi and follows his line of simple combinations with wonderful spices, in this case with cumin and cayenne, two spices that make a phenomenal combo.

At home we usually make a lot of fresh pasta, we love it, but especially my son. I couldn't say which he likes more, whether sharing the time together in the kitchen preparing it or later tasting it. He's a pasta fanatic. I've been introducing him to Asian cuisine for some time (which I adore!) and so far he's liking it quite a lot. The easiest way to make a first contact are noodles. You could say they're a direct relative of pasta, so with this I was on safe ground. So today I show you how to make egg noodles.