Claudia&Julia's Blog

Today I bring you a special recipe for tagliatelle with homemade meatballs, a recipe ideal for making in a casserole, and with which we have premiered the the new Le Creuset casserole in the Meringue color.

Perfect both for enjoying in summer and in cold months, this chicken and rice recipe will get you out of any tight spot, whether with family or guests it is one of the easiest and most impressive recipes around. A wonderful combination! I give you my word that it's delicious. And if not, you'll tell me.

What have you got for us today, Claudia? Well, today I'm bringing you nothing more and nothing less than a perfect dish to prepare on these summer days, when you have guests over or for the weekends, since it's really delicious and will take very little of your time. Surprise your guests by preparing this casserole of monkfish with clams.

This Riojan skewer of red shrimp and mushroom with pesto is an easy yet impressive dish, and what I love is the basil pesto that accompanies it to give it a special touch, because it’s a pesto you’ll use to accompany salads, meats, and fish whenever you want something special.

Last weekend I tried tofu burgers. At home we love burgers; in fact I've been innovating and preparing them for quite some time now, not just with chicken or beef but with a variety of ingredients that manage to surprise.

Today we head to Italy with this "gorgonzola, pea and mint risotto." This is one of my favorite risotto recipes: creamy, smooth and with the burst of peas in every bite. Risotto is one of the most traditional dishes of Italian cuisine; to achieve an ultra-creamy rice it is essential to use a good rice for the task: Arborio, Carnaroli, etc. Due to these rices' ability to absorb liquid, they will give us that typical pasty texture of risotto.

I don't know whether this lemon cake will be the best in the world or not. What I can tell you is that it will make you fall in love like nothing else before. It's a dense cake, with all the texture of buttery English cakes and with lemon flavors and aromas that will put everyone in the house in a good mood.

Today I'm not bringing you onebut several recipes tomake at home creamy, delicious Italian gelato. For years I had been wanting an ice cream maker like the one I used to prepare the recipes I bring you today.

Eggplants are one of my favorite vegetables. At home, we like them breaded, stuffed, in moussaka or parmigiana. The recipe I present to you is another easy and quick way to prepare them, like a zucchini cannelloni, filled with a whimsical mix of ricotta and spinach and served with a homemade tomato sauce flavored with basil or lemon thyme.

Emile Henry has released a beautiful ceramic cheese baker designed to bring us plenty of joy at the table. They call it Cheese Baker, and besides being able to store brie- or camembert-style cheeses in it once you've opened them, what's truly rewarding is using it to cook your cheeses. Yes, to cook them, so you get delicious melted, seasoned cheeses at the perfect consistency for dipping or enjoying with a bit of bread.

There are spoon dishes that are magical, dishes that transport you back to childhood and to grandma's home cooking. This Canarian rancho that I bring you today is one of them, a simple spoon dish and, although the best-known version is prepared with meat, I’m passionate about the octopus version. It is a typical preparation from the Canary Islands, a humble yet truly delicious dish.

It's hard to find something quicker, simpler and more delicious to prepare in the kitchen than homemade cookies (especially if we have a pair of "extra" hands ready to help). There are countless cookie recipes, but usually each of us has one that stands out above the rest, our favorite cookie recipe, the one that never fails. In our case, and after a long and undisputed reign of the typical chocolate chip cookies, these brownie-style chocolate cookies are our latest weakness.