Win a bundle of Spanish foodie goodies!
Posted: 07 December '10 by Niall and Kelly
Christmas, as the saying goes, is a time for giving and our friends at Orce Serrano Hams and Summersdale Publishing are certainly getting into the spirit! There’s a whole bundle of Spanish-themed foodie treats up for grabs, just in time for Christmas. So much so that we’ll have not one but three winners this time!..
Categories: Competitions and Promotions
Everything but the Squeal: a year of pigging out in Northern Spain
Posted: 03 December '10 by Niall
Looking back over our recipes I’ve noticed that we have more and more Spanish-influenced dishes creeping into our repetoire. It’s not surprising, really – Kelly and I regularly visit Spain, although we’ve never been outside of Catalunya. The sights and sounds of places like La Bocqueria in Barcelona, and the delicious treats found in every..
Categories: Books for Cooks
Spanish Stuffed Tomatoes
Posted: 25 August '10 by Niall
In our recent post about La Tomatina we mentioned that we’d be celebrating the humble tomato in our own way – by making Spanish stuffed tomatoes. It’s a pretty straightforward recipe, but the flavours are superb – fruity, both sweet and savoury, and with a delicate hint of thyme and parsley in the background. Kelly..
Categories: Recipes
Win a paella kit from Orce Serrano Hams!
Posted: 24 August '10 by Niall and Kelly
Just like us, our good friends Iain and Gayle at Orce Serrano Hams are getting into the Tomatina Festival spirit – although they have a far better chance of making it to the food fight from their home in Andalucia! They’ve selected a little piece of Valencia from their fantastic range of Spanish delicacies to..
Categories: Competitions and Promotions
On my command, unleash.. tomatoes!
Posted: 24 August '10 by Niall
The world’s biggest food fight starts tomorrow at 11am! The population of Buñol more than triples each year as thousands descend on the small Valencian town to join in the massive tomato fight, with over 100 tons of over-ripe tomatoes being thrown in an hour of fun and mayhem. No-one really knows why the event..
Categories: News
Viva España!
Posted: 21 July '10 by Niall
OK, so Spain winning the World Cup is a very thin excuse for making one of our favourite dishes again – a wonderfully tasty Prawn and Chorizo Paella. Spanish cuisine is incredibly varied and is certainly wider than just paella recipes, but thanks to the tourist trade that has been flourishing there Spain has become..
Categories: Recipes
Bringing a little bit of Spain to Northern Ireland – Orce Serrano Hams
Posted: 14 May '10 by Niall
When the grey skies, the stress at work, and the plummeting temperatures get us down, one of our more frequent pie-in-the-sky plans is to live somewhere exotic, and to run our own (foodie) business. It was about a month ago that we noticed that Orce Serrano Hams was following us on Twitter. I’m quite partial..
Categories: Chilli and Chocolate Talk To..
Feliz Cumplanos, Eamann!
Posted: 10 May '10 by Niall
Kelly and I wanted to celebrate fellow Chilli and Chocolatier Eamann’s birthday in style this year, but couldn’t decide on which restaurant to book. It was then that inspiration struck – we’d throw a Spanish tapas party! We both love the tapas bars in Barcelona (although the Catalans call tapas “pintxos”) – the dishes are..
Categories: Recipes
