Back to Basics Cooking in a Modern Age
Living here in Spain, one of our last bastions of ‘convenience food’ was the pre-made Spanish Tortilla. As far as pre-packaged food, the ingredients were all right – basically onions, eggs, potatoes – but it was still processed. And not overly ‘low carb’. So I stopped buying these for our friday evening movie nights and …
It’s kinda more Shepherd’s Pie than ‘proper’ pie. But anything with a lid on it, even if that lid is made of cauliflower, I will deem ‘pie’. This is one of those dishes inspired by the fact that I found half a chorizo in the fridge and needed to use it up. I also found …
You’ll never guess what… it’s a new recipe! And not only that, it’s a VEGAN recipe! Don’t worry, I haven’t changed that much. Just decided that maybe might try a vegetarian meal once a week for a while, just to prove that you can make delicious vegetarian meals without using frankenfood faux meat products. You …
Yesterday, I slow cooked a piece of pork for 10 hours. It was delicious! It was just a huge hunk of, well, I guess Boston Butt or Pork Shoulder but it was one of those ‘lost in translation’ spanish things…. Aguja de Cerdo. Anyway. It was 1.8 kilos of pork. I coated it in cajun …
I rarely buy fresh green beans. I have no excuse – except that I tend to forget about them in the fridge, so I stick to the green beans in a jar. Which, I have to admit, I really like as far as convenience food goes. But I did purchase a bunch of green beans the …
Okay – this is one of the recipes I don’t expect anyone to actually follow. I mean, it’s a little labour intensive, but super worth it from the point of view of satisfaction! See, I bought myself a meat grinder this week…. I’m guessing, that if you can’t be bothered to grind your own meat, …
