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Spanish Patatas Bravas

Monica — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:23:28 +0000

Patatas bravas are fried potato dices served with salsa brava, a spicy tomato sauce. And every bar in Spain has them. So when your house is the place to serve tapas, better still to prepare this delicious home-made bravas. I prepare them for my friend’s Elena surprise birthday party. I also prepared this tequeÃ±os and easy and delicious sandwichs.

Always when I go out for tapas, we order patatas bravas. Sometimes they are really dissapointing, but sometimes they turn out to be spectacular. That’s when you know your coming back to the bar. Believe me, if you make them right your a winner!! So here is my version of a winning recipe!!

Delicious!

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A three-course menu (Part II). Spinach and home-made ricotta ravioli with curry carrot sauce

Monica — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:04:04 +0000

I know it’s taken a while to write the second dish… and dessert is still about to come!!! The thing is, I just came two weeks ago from a few months in Berlin, so the time I’ve spend in searching for a place to live in and a nice restaurant job (hopefully soon) doesn’t leave me with many internet hours to post. But this is about to change soon… so expect some new german recipes with sausages, beer, Kartoffeln Salat (potato salad), my usual peruvian food from any part of the world (I brought a suitcase with all my ingredients of course), breads, and my guess would be new spicy food. Berlin has many Turkish markets and restaurants so new spices and plates I will be trying for sure. And I loveee Turkish food, and Indian, and well, yes, all kinds.

Anyway… back to the Menu and that special lunch with friends that started with the traditional peruvian Causa LimeÃ±a. So, now that I’ve told you how to make home-made ricotta cheese it’s time for a recipe with it right? This is what I prepared: spinach and ricotta ravioli with pine nuts and raisins with a curry-carrot sauce. Absolutely delicious. Let’s get to it, goes dedicated to all the Dad’s today on Father’s Day. Specially to mine, that is the best Dad in the whole world.

This sauce can also be served as a curry carrot soup, the only thing you have to change is to add some cream and maybe more water, some croutons for serving and set. Very light and delicious starter.

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Roasted garlic paste

Monica — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:56:14 +0000

This is a must-do if you have a free afternoon at home. Go buy good big garlic heads, like 6 for example, roast at low temperature in an oven for an hour, cool down, peel and squeeze with your fingers to get out all the garlic paste. Tupper it up and save it on the fridge. It lasts for a looong time and serves for rice, salad dressings, light mayonnaise, meat, lamb, chicken, you name it!!

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Revolutionary Pesto

Monica — Sun, 22 May 2011 23:24:03 +0000

I had the chance to visit La Habana over three months ago with my family. A trip that had as a main objective to feel Cuba and the cubans, and we were so lucky that we managed to share many moments of our trip with a couple of 100% Cubas that have a special and huge strength and desire for Cuba to change and for the freedom of speech. Because in a country where the word ‘progress’ is synonym of ‘illegality’ is in need for a revolution and change.

And that’s what today’s recipe is about. It goes to everyone of us that are tired of being fooled and lied to. What is happening now in Madrid and has extended to Spain, Europe and the rest of the world is what Cubans will live some day in their own Plaza del Mar.

It’s time to ask for change, and it’s time for things TO change. I hope this movement will prevail and I hope it can reach my country PerÃº. We have recently lived through a terrible electoral scene, repeated and shameful that does not unite us, in the contrary they grow us peruvians apart. And this is inconceivable. We must unite on the same fight and not fight against each other. Ignorance of calling ignorant to the ones that are ignored has to stop. Because the are the ones that had and have the biggest right to ask for a change and to not want to be ok with aÂ governmentÂ that does not take them into account.

Today I leave you with thisÂ Pesto Habanero that we ate at these two friends house in Cuba. Pesto that is born from a generation that does not want to be conformist. Pesto that represents this revolution and begining of change.

And now to the talking, discussing, sharing opinions and writing proposals.

The pictures are analogic. I’ve always thought there is no pixel worth real colours. Thank you to my brother NicolÃ¡s!! You can see more pictures of my trip to Cuba in myÂ flickr

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