Back to Basics Cooking in a Modern Age
There are quite a few recipes for making your own bacon on the internet. A lot of them involve sugar. Some of them don’t. A lot of them have ingredients that I can’t get here in Spain. So on my third attempt at making bacon, I decided to go with my own collection of spices, …
Sorry for the title. I got carried away with alliteration. It’s not pasta at all – it’s courgette (zucchini) noodles. Still – makes for a catchy title, eh? Seeing as I’m trying to do a bit of a january thing, you know, detox and get back to basics, for the foreseeable future, I was worried …
It’s not your traditional lasagna, whatever that is. At least, it doesn’t have any pasta noodles in it. Or béchamel sauce. But it doesn’t suffer without that! I used ricotta cheese instead of béchamel. And leeks instead of pasta. Yep. Leeks.
Stuffing is one of my favourite parts of the Christmas dinner. Luckily, I forget about stuffing the rest of the year. However, it’s a must for Christmas. Traditionally, stuffing includes bread, but I’ve managed to create a paleo version using cauliflower. (Cauliflower is great for everything!) So this is my version of a ‘you almost can’t …
I’ve read about carnitas a lot. They always look delicious but for some reason, finding ‘pork shoulder’ here in Spain isn’t easy. I’ve ordered it before from the butchers, but usually I’m not that organised to order something from the butchers. But when I saw Mark Sisson’s Crispy Carnitas, I couldn’t resist to attempt my …
I don’t believe in a long-arse description of how I discovered that courgette and zucchini is the same thing. I don’t need to explain the weather during the first occasion that I made this dish. Hopefully, you won’t need to hit that ‘skip to recipe’ because by the time you find that, the recipe is …
