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Are titanium pans safe for health? Are the diamond ones better? Many customers call us looking for Teflon-free nonstick pans because they are concerned about the effects of Teflon on their family's health. Some customers ask us for titanium or diamond pans since they understand that they do not have Teflon (we can think that their coating is made of titanium, diamond or in some cases granite or stone).

As many of you know, I am a true fan of the Le Creuset brand and its cast iron pans. They are an icon of French cuisine. Cast iron is a material that was already used in Roman times to make kitchen utensils; and still today, with all the materials we have at our disposal, there is no other material as versatile, with such good appearance and with better heat retention.

Yesterday we had our friend and great cook Stéphane Poussardin at We Love Cooking preparing some tasty and very easy to make "tapas" or appetizer recipes. I leave you a couple of recipes that were very successful, I hope you enjoy them.

Last week our friend Stéphane Poussardin was in our demonstration space, We Love Cooking, preparing some delicious recipes with De Buyer's Mineral B iron pans. Today I want to bring you one of the ones that I liked the most because of how easy and original it is. I hope you like it :)

Corn bread is a traditional American bread variety that is very easy to prepare. As many people have been asking me for all kinds of bread recipes lately, whether to make with the bread maker, with the Emile Henry bread oven or different recipes that are easy, I thought you might be interested in this recipe.

This delicious and original recipe was made by our friend Stéphane Poussardin in the Claudia&Julia showroom, We Love Cooking. Stéphane is a good friend who has a beautiful space in Barcelona (L'Atelier d'Stéphane) where he offers creative market cooking workshops and tasting menus for small groups.

One of our customers' favorite products are De Buyer iron ore pans. They are very natural pans that allow us to recover the flavors of a lifetime, whether we are frying an egg or some potatoes or if we are cooking a good steak. In addition, they are pans with a very affordable price and that can last us a lot of years if we give them proper maintenance.

This delicious recipe with suggestive Asian flavors and aromas is very easy to prepare. The most difficult thing may be finding some typical ingredients of Asian or Latin cuisine, although every day it is easier to find these ingredients in large supermarkets or in small Asian or Latin food stores.

A few days ago a friend called me and told me that she was looking at my website, since she wanted a frying pan, but she didn't know which frying pan to buy. He told me that he wanted a "normal" frying pan and that on our website they were very expensive.

This traditional Italian recipe is a favorite at home. It is about spaghetti with a delicious sauce of bacon and egg. It is ideal accompanied by a green salad or a little arugula. It is prepared very quickly with a frying pan and a Le Creuset non-stick saucepan.

The lamb tagine is a very popular dish that we can make with our Emile Henry tagine. The tagine condenses the cooking steam in its peculiar lid until it recovers its liquid state and falls back on the food. In this way the lamb is cooked over a low heat, leaving a tender and very tasty meat. It can be presented at the table in the tagine itself.

Coq au vin (or chicken recipe in wine as we would say here) is a classic dish of French cuisine of Occitan origin, really delicious.