While I live in an area notorious for frying, I prefer to grill my food in Andalucia.

Here’s a quick and easy video showing you how to create a delicious Spanish olive marinade with top Spanish chef, Omar Allibhoy.

Until recently I had never met a champion ham slicer. That all changed when Juan Carlos Gómez visited the city of Malaga and showed off the skills that led to him being hailed as the best slicer of ham in Spain.

This video shows you how to make a simple chicken paella using Carmencita’s popular sachets of paella mix (paellero).

Imagine my surprise when an experienced paella chef was seen to throw a couple of handfuls of diced ham into a paella.

Artichokes are a delight in any country. Especially in Spain where the humble artichoke, or alcachofa as it is called, is most prized. Not just for its taste but also because it is good for you. The artichoke is full of cynarine which is good for your liver and known to sooth an upset stomach. But one query I hear [...]

For centuries people have been coming up with clever ways of preserving food. Today we take refrigeration and freezing food for granted. But, in the unmodern part of Andalucia in which i live, there are still many people keeping and storing food in far less high tech ways. Drying is the oldest method of food preservation in the world. The [...]

To accompany recipes such as Bunyols de Bacallá (see recipe section) you will need to have made a tasty alioli. This one, like that recipe, comes from Catalunya – where they know a thing or two about how to make sauces and dips. It seems we owe the joy of alioli to the Roman emperor Nero. I never knew that [...]

There are many shoppers for whom mayonnaise always came in a glass jar. I have come across people who had no idea that anyone could actually make a mayonnaise from scratch. In our recipes section I have added a recipe for a meal from Catalunya. It is for fried squid with a smoked pimentón and garlic mayonnaise. But how do [...]

For a recent recipe in that section of this site, you needed to have a home made tomato sauce at the ready. Now some people may think that nobody should need to be told how to make such a sauce. That is should somehow come naturally to anyone who enters a kitchen. But that is not the case. Many people [...]