Claudia&Julia's blog

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.

Today I am going to tell you how to make wonderful homemade vanilla-flavored custard that doesn't taste like eggs. As soon as you make them at home, they will become one of your go-to recipes, since they have nothing to do with those you buy in supermarkets.

The tray with which Emile Henry has made us fall in love this year goes a long way. It is a tray that serves both to present any appetizer, cheese or sausage on the table, as well as for cooking: it is a tray designed to go in the oven, with the great qualities of Emile Henry ceramics, so you can bake as much in it puff pastries, tartlets with brick dough, cookies and everything that your sweet side desires, as you can take advantage of it to bake delicious pizzas, roast vegetables, potatoes, make gratin stuffed onions or mushrooms.... Whatever comes to mind! But with a great additional addition: from the oven you will take it to the table, and its presentation is sensational.

If you like tender and sweet buns, you will love this chocolate brioche. With the Emile Henry crown mold, a beautiful shape is achieved, ideal to present at a celebration.

Mushrooms are beginning to be seen in the markets, the ideal announcement that autumn is here, with all that this entails, delicious recipes with a wonderful and very versatile ingredient.

We are in autumn, and it is time for chestnuts, sweet potatoes and pumpkins; It seems that you are starting to feel like baking cakes, pies, biscuits and tarts with apples and pears. In a way, we feel like turning on the oven to impregnate our house with those intoxicating aromas of butter, cinnamon and sugar. If only we could keep that smell in a glass jar and open it from time to time!

At home and when the cool season arrives, stews are made more often, and it is the perfect time to remember the recipe for yellow potatoes. In my land, this typical dish is prepared, which is very simple, tasty and cheap. Has it all! It is a dish, as I say, very tasty, and also attractive due to its colors.

If there is an easy bread to prepare, it is, without a doubt, the Irish soda bread. Few ingredients, easy to find, that only need to be mixed, slightly kneaded, and baked. In half an hour of cooking we have a delicious bread ready to eat. No waiting, raising, complicated kneading techniques or the like.

Rice and crust or rice with crust (depending on the municipality where we are) is undoubtedly one of the most representative Alicante dishes. This traditional rice is typical in the regions of Vega Baja, Bajo Vinalopó and Marina Alta.

Today I want to teach you how to prepare a delicious aubergine and veal croque cake that will come in handy to solve a daily dinner or to take to a party, since it is a recipe that comes out with enough portions. Croques cakes are savory cakes inspired by the famous French croque monsieur, those mixed sandwiches covered with bechamel and au gratin that you have surely seen in many bakeries.

There are many of you who are encouraged to make bread at home. It is a most desirable hobby, and it is very rewarding. That is why today we encourage you to make bread at home with the recipe for Parisian baguettes, in a basic and perfect version to try making homemade bread.

Juana, author of Babel's kitchen, brings us a recipe that many of you have heard at some time, the recipe for pilav (or pilaf) made following Yotam Ottolenghy's proposal. Tasty and very easy to prepare, I'm sure you'll repeat at home!