Claudia&Julia's Blog

If you were wondering how to make homemade bars you'll love reading this post (and the mold Mastrad has released!). Cereal bars are tasty, healthy, provide energy and are a perfect food to take everywhere (to work, to school, for when you're exercising or simply to carry in your bag to snack mid-morning). Also, if you make the bars at home, you can control the amount of sugars and the quality of the ingredients, and they have that extra "I made them myself" factor, which is always an added pleasure—you can't deny it.

I admit I'm a sweet-tooth, and desserts are my weakness — I like them all, really! But even so I have my favorites, and one of my top picks is fruit tarts, especially the Tatin tart, starting with the traditional apple one and ending with this one I'm bringing you today, the delicious pineapple Tatin tart.

Portuguese cuisine boasts so many cod recipes that we could make a different one every day of the year without repeating. This is one of the most popular, both inside and outside the neighboring country. At home it’s much loved, even by those who aren’t big fans of fish, which is a welcome thing. Likewise, it’s a very simple dish to prepare and doesn’t require unusual ingredients or odd gadgets.

The cheesecake we bring today is super creamy — consider yourself warned. Also, the creamy ricotta combined with sweet berries and white chocolate is a perfect combination you're sure to love.

This is a delicious dessert, also ideal to accompany afternoon tea or a good coffee.

I have always enjoyed making desserts, desserts with history like these traditional frisuelos that are made in Asturias and whose recipe has been passed down from parents to children time and time again.

When Claudia suggested I prepare a recipe with the Ilsa flan molds, I immediately replied that I wanted to make my tocinillos de cielo. They are such an exquisite and delicate bite that I wanted to show you how to make them at home. And the thing is, whenever I serve them at a gathering, they’re a hit.

If in my last recipe we traveled to the United Kingdom, today we continue there. I couldn't resist presenting the recipe for Scones. Yes, I'm sure you know them — those round rolls originating from Scotland, the little breads usually served alongside the famous tea time.

The simplest recipes often become the ones we repeat most. Today I bring you one of them: a simple and very healthy recipe, but absolutely delicious. A steamed gilt-head bream flavored with lemon, rosemary and pink pepper, which will make you banish forever the idea that steamed fish is boring. The flesh turns wonderfully juicy and firm, and the flavors are enhanced because the bream cooks in its own juices. The touch of lemon and rosemary, together with the pink pepper, give a fresh note and a surprising counterpoint to the palate in this recipe.

For years I lived in ignorance, thinking that pisto manchego was the only pisto in Spanish cuisine, but how wrong I was! Today’s recipe is one of the variants that stems from the original pisto made only with tomato and green pepper, which is the father of all pistos. But it’s not the only one, although we won’t get into that because the one we’re interested in is this one, the recipe for pisto riojano.

I'm not going to lie to you. Today I don't bring a quick recipe. That said, it's not a difficult recipe either, but it is a bit time-consuming. Of course it's also absolutely delicious, and as soon as you try the first bite of these stuffed baby squid braised with onions, you forget all the time you may have spent preparing them and only remember how incredibly tasty they are, I promise!

You're probably wondering first: Where's the fruit? I asked myself the same the first time I saw this dessert. A cobbler is a dessert with a base of caramelized fruit covered by a layer of cookie dough or shortcrust pastry and baked. This dessert has nothing to do with the classic cobbler, but that's what they call it.

This Strogonoff or Stroganoff is one of my favorite dishes. There is no single recipe and everyone usually adds their own touch. We're talking about a Russian stew that's basically made with beef, mushrooms or wild mushrooms and onion in a cream sauce (and here's where it differs), which is seasoned in different ways.