Archive for the ‘Spanish and Portuguese’ Category
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
This is my take on the traditional Spanish cold soup. It's a great summer soup - a refreshing showcase for some of the great produce that's currently so abundant.
Gazpacho
Serves 8 as an appetizer or 4 as a meal
1 lb ripe tomatoes, chopped
1 medium cucumber; peeled, seeded, and chopped
1 small ...
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
This is classic Spanish home cooking at its best - simple ingredients come together to make a dish greater than the sum of its parts. I've been seeing recipes for these around a lot recently, and finally decided to make one myself. My primary inspiration came from Elise ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
This was my next iteration of paella, incorporating the changes from last time. I didn't have any onion on hand, so I just used some onion powder, and it turned out just fine. I also used a full pound of shrimp, though I'd be perfectly happy to have ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
This was a pretty tasty version of paella - a traditional Spanish dish. I've written it as I made it below, but next time I'm going to use skinless boneless chicken thighs cut up, and I'm going to nestle the meats deeper into the rice to better get the ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
This recipe is from Dragon's Kitchen. She uses the spice rub with classic Portuguese flavors on chicken wings and broils them, but I substituted chicken thighs and baked them over some cubed potatoes to make a full dinner of it. We liked this a great deal, but found ...
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