Claudia&Julia's blog

You can make some super tasty recipes just with a frying pan! On this occasion, Julio (WMF chef), brings us an oriental-style vegetable sauté that is addicting. The result are delicious sautéed vegetables, a recipe that can be served as a first course or as an accompaniment to meat or fish.

Anyone else around here who eats salads during the summer? And someone else who at the end of July no longer has new ideas and ends up always eating the same salad? And I recognize that having a varied repertoire and to the taste of the whole family is not always easy, that's why I try different salads and those that I like the most at home I keep to share with you. And, what do you want me to tell you, this pickled chicken salad with mango, goat cheese and walnuts has gone out the front door!!

It means arriving at this time of year and putting myself in "dinners on the terrace" mode, with friends, in a lively environment and with cool recipes that take me very little work. Without a doubt, the one that never fails is the steamed mussels, which is one of the easiest dishes to prepare that you can resort to. It is an inexpensive dish that everyone usually likes, and washed down with a good Ribeiro... What am I going to tell you that you don't know!

Surely it is not the first time that you feel attracted by alternative ways of enjoying pizza and that your conscience does not hurt when you eat it. Perhaps the idea of ​​making a pizza with a cauliflower base and free of flour and guilt has appeared when you were looking for new ideas to make your little ones eat cauliflower without complaints. Either way, these cauliflower-based pizzas are a new and healthy way to make pizza fast, fresh and delicious.

Did you know that we spend between 30-50% of our time rambling? That without realizing it we get distracted and absorbed in an internal flow of thought unrelated to external stimuli? We spend so much time like this that it has even been said that it is the default state of our brain.

Globalization has brought us delicious dishes from distant lands, including all the pasta consumed in Japan, like these homemade soba noodles that we can prepare with the KitchenAid robot's pasta accessory and that we put in an orientalizing vegetable broth. Yum.

Portuguese gastronomy has so many recipes with cod that we could prepare one every day of the year and not repeat it. This is one of the most popular inside and outside the neighboring country. At home, even the least fond of fish like it a lot, something that is appreciated. As well as the fact that it is a very simple dish to prepare and that it does not require strange ingredients or strange gadgets.

For years I lived in ignorance thinking that Manchego ratatouille was the only existing ratatouille in Spanish gastronomy, but how confused I was! Today's recipe is one of the variants that derives from the original ratatouille made only with tomato and green pepper, which is the father of all ratatouille. But it is not the only one, although we are not going to go into the matter because the one that interests us is this, the recipe for ratatouille from Rioja.

Can you think of a better plan for a Friday night than the classic "sofa and movie?" Only one for me: accompany it with a great dinner!! What are we going to do, I have a very developed greedy vein, hehehe. But you will not deny me that accompanying a good movie with a good dinner is a perfect plan! And if there is a dish that has crept into our favorites for these nights, it is the pulled pork tacos.

Michirones are a super typical dish from the Spanish southeast. Both in the Campo de Cartagena, Huerta de Murcia, Vega Baja Alicante and Mazarrón areas, it is a dish that you can easily find in any of its bars, inns or restaurants.

I bring you a new version of chickpeas with spinach that you are going to love. A healthy recipe that is prepared in just a few minutes and that everyone likes.
The chickpeas are accompanied by dried tomatoes, which in addition to an unmistakable flavor, give it a pleasant aroma and a beautiful color.

One of the great classics of our cuisine, and that of many other countries, is the empanadilla. Versatile to say the least, both in the dough, which can be made in many ways depending on the liquid and fat chosen, and in the filling, which admits infinite variations and can be adapted to one's taste... whatever you have in the fridge (it's a great recipe to use).