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This pea and coconut cream recipe is perfect for those days when you don’t have much time to prepare lunch or dinner, but don’t want to give up a healthy, delicious dish. A vegan soup full of flavor that, as is, is incredibly tasty, but allows endless adaptations to suit anyone’s taste.

I’m fascinated by all classic, traditional preparations, even those with a slightly old-fashioned or vintage look. I think they have a peculiar, distinctive elegance that makes them hard to look away from. Among the wide variety of typical sweets for this season, this year you must make the Casca de Reis, the traditional Christmas sweet from Valencia that should be on the table for Three Kings' Day.

If you still wait for Epiphany with the same excitement you had as a child, today's recipe will delight you. This Roscón de Reyes is a brioche-style ring, a dough that's approachable and easy to make, with just the right sweetness. And of course, it includes the traditional bean, which has always given us so many laughs at home, both young and old.

There are recipes that are incredibly simple to make and that, moreover, deliver a surprising result. Like these Millionaire’s Shortbread bars.

It's a winning combination, however you look at it. This is a three-layer bar: buttery shortbread, toffee cream, and dark chocolate coating… Impossible to say no to this temptation.

For avid home cooks and grateful diners, nothing is more eagerly awaited at this time of year than having on the table any dish that smells, tastes, or evokes Christmas. Traditional stews are welcomed with joy every year because they are part of those moments that are etched into our memories. But new recipes are also expected to delight your guests, and this Christmas tree stuffed with basil pesto will achieve that goal.

Few snacks are as quick and elegant as these chocolate-covered hazelnuts, or hazelnut bites, as we call them at home.

I've got two date recipes for you that are as beautiful as they are surprising. One is a very elegant appetizer that will make you look fabulous when you present it at the Sunday table. The second is a dessert or snack to finish the meal, where you aim for a gentle combination of flavors and play with textures.

We bring you the showstopper recipe of the holidays, beef Wellington, but in a different and utterly exquisite fish version: salmon Wellington. Salmon stuffed and wrapped in filo pastry is a recipe as delicious as it is elegant. You may have heard of this dish as "Salmón en croûte" (salmon in crust), a salmon wrapped in filo or puff pastry.

If you're a fan of peanut flavor and Christmas cookies, you'll love this peanut butter cookie recipe (or, in other words, the popular Peanut Butter Cookies).

Perfect ingredient to elevate your desserts and sweets, and a delicious temptation—even to enjoy by the spoonful—this homemade almond and hazelnut praline will make your mouth water as soon as you try it.

Vienna bread turned into a baguette and piled high with chocolate chips — can anyone resist this delight?

Vienna bread is reminiscent of brioche: tender and rather sweet. Its preparation includes milk, butter and eggs, and it’s a dough that can easily remind you of brioche.

Pumpkin is one of autumn’s star ingredients, and also the base of a basic, indispensable cream to warm you up during the cold months of the year. Today, this recipe for smooth pumpkin cream (or pumpkin soup) is here to become a wardrobe staple for everyone who hasn’t enjoyed it yet. For the more culinary-minded, you’ll like to know that it’s a recipe from French chef Philippe Laruelle.