Kibbe Recipe
Kibbe Recipe 1. The 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 2. The Filli ...
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 ...