…standout dish that I shall always associate with that suspended table under the pine trees; atún encebollado.
Category: Seafood
Mum’s Coconut Prawns
These are the sort of thing that you snack on quite easily without realising how many tails you are unashamedly stacking on the side of your plate!
How to prepare…
For those of us that live on the shores of the Med, we are fortunate enough to dine on this delicious cephalopod as often as the seas allow us.
Vegas – LA – San Francisco
One of my all-time favourite breakfast/brunch dishes is Eggs Benedict. Poached eggs sitting on roast ham, resting snugly on English Muffins and covered with hollandaise sauce.
Relaxed Home Cooking
Relaxed home cooking What would you define as: relaxed home cooking? For each of us the term will mean something different. For some of us, relaxed home cooking will literally just be simple home cooking, for others it may be the one pot meal, the tray-bake or bowl-food, however, for some it may be something…
Tunafest at El Capote
The beginning of summer heralds tuna from the Atlantic to make their way to the warmer spawning grounds of the Mediterranean. As they swim along the western coastline of Southern Spain to cross through the Straits of Gibraltar they become ensnared in a maze of nets – the subsequent slaughter; Almadraba is an age old…
Surf and Turf
One of my all time favourite restaurant dishes is fillet steak with garlic prawns – served rare! But whenever I order this some diners will always question the whole meat and seafood combo and whether it really works. So what is Surf and Turf? Surf and Turf or more commonly ‘Surf ‘n’ Turf’ or better…
Comforting Fish Pie
We leave Winter behind and step into Spring but sadly even though the temperatures have gone up the weather does not really seam to be reflecting this yet. So with the dreary weather hanging over us I still have penchant for comfort food. So what does comfort food really mean to me? If I were to…
New Years Day
In the past, no matter what time we went to bed at and no matter how much toasting to the new year had gone on, someone (Gran and Mum) had to wake up early and get started on preparing and cooking a New Year’s lunch for a family of 7+. On most occasions, the same…
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