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Meatballs in Almond Sauce Recipe – Spanish Albóndigas en Salsa de Almendras

The traditional Spanish meatballs in almond sauce recipe is perfect for a tapas style meal, or for the main course. Read on for the delicious Spanish recipe! I grew up eating Italian style meatballs, simmered for hours in homemade tomato sauce. My family would have an Italian-American dinner most...

Traditional Spanish Pisto Recipe

Lauren Aloise

Pisto is basically the Spanish version of ratatouille (stewed vegetables), and it’s one of my husband’s favorite dishes. It sounds remarkably simple, but like most simple dishes in Spain there are excellent versions and terrible ones. The trick, as usual, is the quality of your produce and of your...

Cod with Cauliflower Recipe (Bacalao con Coliflor)

Lauren Aloise

The history of salt cod (bacalao/bacalhau/baccalà) is fascinating. It’s one of the most traditional dishes in Spain, Portugal and Italy– but cod is found nowhere near our coasts! The story of cod is long and complicated, and nowadays eating the fish itself is very controversial because of its quickly declining stocks....

Mar i Muntanya Recipe (Catalan Chicken and Shrimp)

Lauren Aloise

When I saw this traditional Catalan recipe for chicken and shrimp, I knew I just had to make it. Mar i muntanya (surf and turf) is a typical concept in Catalan cuisine and combines the wonders of Catalan geography–amazing seafood and delicious mountain fare.

Easy Vegetable Paella Recipe – Spanish Vegetarian Paella

Lauren Aloise

This traditional Spanish vegetable paella recipe is one of my favorites. It’s typical from Murcia, where they still make paellas on an open fire! This is a vegetarian paella recipe, and the perfect addition to your next barbecue. Whether you call it paella or not, we all agree that...

Alicante Style Chicken

Lauren Aloise

Chicken Anyone? One of the things that really stuck out to me when I moved to Madrid were the city’s many Pollerías— roasted chicken shops. Simply walk down a Madrid street and you’re likely to run into at least one, usually filled with plump and crispy chickens spinning about,...