Claudia&Julia's blog

Since Emile Henry launched the new range of baking and serving trays, there hasn’t been a week that you haven’t written to tell us how beautiful they are and that you want ideas to get the most out of them. So that’s why we’re here today, to bring you 6 easy starter recipes but with the perfect touch to look fabulous with family and friends. This holiday season you’ll get the most out of them!

The roasted ham is a classic Christmas dish or not strictly a Christmas dish; for example in Galicia it is a very popular dish with its little sauce.Imagine: a piece of patorra pork that we first cook to make sure we tenderize it, and that we finish by roasting in the oven so it releases its fat and turns perfectly golden. Oh, and we serve it with little potatoes, sweet potato and onion. What Americans call comfort food through and through.

I'm a total fan of the Le Creuset tajine. Even more so when you can make such great recipes with this vegetable tajine I'm bringing you today. This dish revives the soul and takes your breath away! Don't be put off by the number of spices I've used, because the combination is absolutely delicious and irresistible.

I must say I'm crazy about lasagnas, in all their versions—meat, salmon and spinach, or vegetable... They all seem fantastic and delicious to me. I know each of us has a favorite dish from Italian cuisine and that at home we adapt it to our own way; this is the case with the lasagna I bring you today, a vegetable lasagna, a dish I craved all the time when I was pregnant, a simple-to-prepare yet delicious dish.

I don't know about you, but I can't think of a better combination than chocolate and walnuts. And if to this mix, which is already delicious, we add a good homemade pastry base, then we have... the best chocolate, walnut and shortcrust tart in the world!

With this chocolate and yolk bundt cake we declare the season of oven-baked treats and delicious cakes at home open. Bundts are something children are passionate about, because they marvel at their shape and silhouette, and they make a stunning impression if you're going to give one as a gift or have guests at home.

My son is an unconditional fan of macaroni and cheese, like almost all young people everywhere. My goal is always to get him to eat vegetables and more vegetables, the ones he seems increasingly unwilling to eat. That's why I come up with different versions of his favorite dishes using vegetables.

Pierogi are one of the most typical dishes of Polish cuisine. Basically, they consist of dough filled with various fillings. You could say they are quite similar to ravioli.

Cooking en papillote basically consists of cooking thanks to the steam and the juices retained in a wrapper that is applied to the food. It is a technique that works wonderfully on fish, vegetables and tender meats (such as poultry).

Don't you love easy, showy recipes that make us look like real cooking pros with very little effort? I do. I adore them. Any recipe with minimal effort and maximum wow factor goes straight into the stash to be tried. And if I like it, it gets added to my cookbook ipso facto. That's what the ruffle milk pie recipe is like, pastel de leche arrugado or galatopita. The latter is the original name of the creation, of Greek origin, and it's to die for.

I love savory pies; they have always seemed very versatile to me and perfect to serve as dinner, a starter, or even as an appetizer. Also, it’s a preparation that allows us to have it ready in advance, only needing to serve it when required. I was looking for new ideas to make savory pies when I came across a sun-shaped pie on the blog Saines Gourmandises. I found it absolutely beautiful, so I had to adapt it to bring you this Autumn Sun Pie.

I had never made cabello de ángel and I even thought I wasn't a big fan of this sweetish concoction. This recipe is a special request from Doña Claudia, whom I thank especially because a homemade cabello de ángel like this one as it's meant to be is something else, not even comparable to the industrial bayonesas fillings I've known since I was little.