This week I just managed to post about a bread I baked weeks ago, but I guess that’s better than previous weeks in which I barely had time to write the a week’s summary! And better than nothing at all. Slowly getting less hectic, I hope.
Continue reading “This week in food, 5 (4-10 March 2019)”This week in food, 3 (18-24 February 2019)
GUESS WHAT!? Another hectic week, so much so that I write the wrap-up post half-way the following week. BAD, but hey.
Continue reading “This week in food, 3 (18-24 February 2019)”Bollos de Sant Blai (Saint Blaise’s buns)
These sweet crumbly buns are typically made in Benidorm (Alicante) around the 3rd of February, which is Sant Blai’s patron day (Saint Blaise).
I had an older recipe which didn’t work out well. This time I more or less followed another blogger’s recipe (in Spanish). Thanks, Carmen! ??
A word of caution: these buns are pretty calorific, which might explain why they’re only made once a year. But on the other hand, they are gluten free, so if you want to make a sweet treat for someone who can’t eat wheat, this could be it.
Coca de Fira
“Coques” (singular: coca), in Valencian, are an entire division of “flat breads” typical from the area. They’re sometimes called “tortas” in Spanish, but most commonly referred to as “cocas”. Continue reading “Coca de Fira”
Paella (traditional Valencian style)
Paella is a very simple dish that Valencian peasants would cook using cheap, fresh and widely available ingredients. Yet despite its innate simplicity, people repeatedly misunderstand and complicate it, causing us Valencians a great deal of stress in the process, because we know it could be so much better and yet people keep insisting on bastardising our national dish in every possible way! ?
Also if you, like me, do not live in Valencia and hence do not have access to some of the “niche” local ingredients, I will also provide acceptable replacements that follow the original spirit. I live in the UK, so my suggestions will reflect what I can find in local markets and supermarkets. If it’s not in my list, it quite probably is not acceptable, so don’t add it ?
Hope you enjoy it!
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