Kibbe Recipe
Dough: • 250g pumpkin or butternut squash, peeled and cut into equal sized pieces • 150g fine brown bulgur wheat • 1/2 tsp Lebanese 7 spices* • 1/2 tsp allspice • 3/4 tsp salt Filling: • 200g spinach • 75g c [...]
Banh Mi Recipe
Banh Mi Recipe Makes 4 sandwiches • 2 baguettes or coca bread, halved lengthwise • 400 grs chicken breast or pork loin • 1/2 Dutch cucumber, sliced lengthwise • 4 tablespoons cilantro • 2 stems of thin tende [...]
Deep-Fried Eggs!
Deep-Fried Eggs With Chili Chorizo Caramel Recipe Ingredients for 2 • 4 eggs • 1⁄4 cup of flour • 1⁄4 cup of breadcrumbs • 2 egg yolks • 1 brown onion, finely diced • 1 clove of garlic, finely diced • 40 g of [...]
Cod and Garlic Confit Tortilla
Cod and Garlic Confit Tortilla RecipeIngredients for 2• 2 cloves garlic• Olive oil• 90 grams dried cod, desalinated*• 3 eggs• Pinch salt• Pinch pepper• Pea shoots (optional)*This can be done at home easily en [...]
Steak Tartare
Ingredients for 2 [separator type="thin"] · 150 grams beef tenderloin, fat removed, minced · 1 egg yolk, beaten · 3-4 teaspoons capers, roughly chopped · 3 tablespoons onion, finely diced · 4 teaspoons gherki [...]
Quince Tard (Pasta Frola de Membrillo)
Morning Glory, Carrer de la Riereta, 15, El Raval This month we're exploring new cultures with a classic Argentine tart, Pasta Frola, from Morning Glory in El Raval. Owner Juanma Peñalver shares a bit about h [...]
Pumpkin Fig Soup
Ziryab • c/ Grunyí 4 • Born To get through the last few months of winter it might be nice to try a new twist on a classic crema. This month we talked with Kate Burton, co-owner of Ziryab, a Catalan-Mediterran [...]
Red Curry Udon
This month with a simple and delicious red curry recipe from Raquel who owns the small Asian fusion restaurant Casa Xica in Poble Sec (c/ França Xica 7). If you don’t feel like cooking after all, you reach th [...]
Can Ràfols dels Caus
This is the kind of rosé I want to sit down and have a conversation with. Mature, elegant, and layered, it has far less to do with the easily quaffable rosés of Spanish summertime than with the elegant reds o [...]
La Vinyeta
It’s a zoetrope. Two boys playing leapfrog, the phases of the moon, a man attempting a long jump. When you twirl a bottle of La Vinyeta’s Puntiapart, the drawings on its label slowly come alive. Like the 19th [...]
Casa Mariol
It’s always nice to have wine with a side of rock n’ roll. Need a pairing for Garnatxa Negre? “All I Want Is You” by U2 and a side of olives, says Casa Mariol. A young Macabeu? Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” [...]
Celler Tuets
When Albert Domingo sees me searching around for a spittoon, he nods toward the nearest sapling. “Spit on the tree,” he says with an earnest shrug. “It will totally make his day.” I try not to laugh as I jet [...]
Mallorca’s Mesquida Mora
She hands me a tiny blush-colored apricot. It’s firm, but one bite reveals a heavenly interplay between sweet and tart that hits the spot on this warm June day. Bàrbara Mesquida Mora leads me through her gard [...]
Finca Parera
Walking through Finca Parera, we stop by a small garden, which looks more like a jumble of weeds. Rubén Parera bends down and plucks out a stalk of celery, a handful of parsley, a few blades of swiss chard, a [...]
Partida Creus
Massimo Marchiori looks more like a fisherman than a farmer. He’s sporting a blue down vest, tattered jeans, and worn work boots. His bald head is concealed under a navy blue beanie, and a rugged salt and pep [...]
A Trip Up Loxarel’s Rabbit Hole
“We also make wine for ourselves that we stomp with our own feet. Want to try it?” Nervous laughter and then a resounding silence emanates from the group. It soon becomes clear that ‘no’ was never an option. [...]
Parés Baltà
It’s the tail end of the harvest season, and the small laboratory at Parés Baltà is abuzz. The family is in there - the whole family - testing the season’s spoils. We crowd in at the window to watch them, a s [...]
The Grandfather of Cava
He grabs my arm and holds it tight. It’s a firm grip for an old man, surprising given his small stature. The grandfather of cava, Agustí Torelló Mata, looks up at me, eyes twinkling, ready to divulge all the [...]
Còsmic Cellars
In the middle of the Còsmic Cellars vineyard is a tree. He points it out, calls it the best tree to meditate under. He stops to caress a leaf, and then another as we walk between the 60-year-old vines that in [...]