Olives as a Starter
Whenever I’m in Portugal, I go looking for the local starters. Interestingly, and not everyone knows this, in Portugal they bring you…
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Category: Spanish dishes
Grilled prawns
Dear ladies. Yes, some lovely ladies graced my plate yesterday. With, as you probably already know, some exceptionally uncomplicated spinach leaves that…
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Pan-Fried Octopus with Cherry Tomatoes
Today I went out for prawns and came home with an octopus. Not a baby one, like those in the baby octopus…
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Grape jam with dark chocolate
Last year I set about „landscaping” my tiny garden. Apart from trying to reform my lawn (a complete failure: after stripping off…
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Olive spread
It got into my head yesterday. I don’t even really know why. To be precise, what got into my head were those…
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Spanish baguette melts
Beautiful day today. I bet cooking hasn’t even crossed your mind, has it? And if it has, you’re probably thinking about dusting…
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Tomato bruschetta à la Thyme
I’ve got to dash, so I won’t bore you. Bruschetta is a sort of Italian version of our Polish homemade baguette toast,…
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Prawns in butter
I’ll come right out and say it: I’ve fallen for prawns. It didn’t happen in 2004 in Hong Kong at 2 in…
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