Most people move to Spain for the sun and the wine, but me, I'm here for the olive oil. I know olive oil comes up in just about all my … [Read more...]
Olive Oil For Breakfast
Olive oil for breakfast. Yes, thats right. Not cornflakes or porridge or bacon and eggs. The Spanish, especially the further south you go, start their … [Read more...]
Sun Drying Tomatoes
Sun Dried Tomatoes dried in the sun Now this So easy and So wonderful. All you need is tomatoes and some consecutive days of dry air and sun. Ok, I … [Read more...]
Cold soups and limonana
Salmorejo de remolacha, ajo blanco and limonana "The wind is in from Africa, last night I couldnt sleep..", The words of the old Joni Mitchell song … [Read more...]
Salmorejo
When life gives you lemons, they say make lemonade. So what do you do when your friend gives you a big bag of ripe, home grown tomatoes and a mountain … [Read more...]
Olive Oil
I wrote in my last post that less and less of what is consumed today in Spain is produced traditionally but I am discovering that there … [Read more...]