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Category: Rome

Posted on 29th September 201815th November 2019

Camponeschi

We wanted to have a fancier dinner for our last night in Rome, so we chose this ‘classic’ restaurant.

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Posted on 25th September 201814th November 2019

Gli aperitivi

Three Aperol spritz

The only purpose of this post is to celebrate all the aperitivi we enjoyed while in Italy. Let the good times be remembered!

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Favourite Spanish recipes

Tapas / Starters
  • Hígado con picada (livers with garlic sauce)
  • Patatas asadas con pimentón (roasted potatoes with paprika)
Mains
  • Paella (traditional from Valencia)
  • Borreta (rice based mountain winter stew)
  • Pimientos rellenos / Bajoques farcides (peppers stuffed with rice)
  • Lentejas (lentil stew)
  • Coca de tomaca (tomato sauce flatbread)
  • Coca de Fira (calorific thick flatbread)
  • Arroz con acelgas (Rice with Swiss Chard): a soupy rice
  • Arròs de mescleta (mixed rice): rice with lots of beans
  • Arroz al horno con pasas y garbanzos / arròs al forn amb panses i cigrons (oven baked raisin and chickpea rice)
  • Roasted artichokes
  • Tortilla de garbanzos (chickpeas omelette)
  • Plato de verano (summer's dish)
  • Bollit / hervido (boiled vegetables)
  • Carrot and potato soup
Desserts & sweets
  • Pa de Sant Antoni - sweet buns and sourdough savoury version
  • Bollos de Sant Blai (Saint Blaise's buns) - sweet flat buns
  • Coca de llanda - sweet, sweet sponge
  • Mona de Pascua - Easter bun
  • Malta / Aigua de sibà / agua de cebada
  • Horchata de chufas / horchata valenciana (tiger nut based, very refreshing drink)
  • Horchata de pipas de melón (melon seeds horchata)
  • Sant Dionís sweets for 9 d'Octubre (la Mocaorà) - fruit shaped marzipan
  • Macedonia de otoño (Autumn fruit salad)
  • Fogassa d'Ontinyent - enriched sweet bun with nuts and raisins
  • Carquinyols / casquinyols (Valencian style biscotti)

Trips

  • Lanzarote (2015)
  • Italy - Tuscia and Rome (2018)
  • Japan (2019)
  • Sardinia (2022)
  • Mosel valley (2023)

Recent Posts

  • Malta, or aigua de sibà / agua de cebada / iced barley tea
  • First attempt at sushi a la valenciana (バレンシア のすし)
  • Romeria de Sant Pere in les Barraques, Catarroja
  • Corpus Christi in Catarroja, and perhaps a summer solstice connection
  • Walking route to the Port of Catarroja

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