Claudia&Julia's Blog

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 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.

I think this recipe can easily become one of the household favorites. It's a very tasty, economical recipe and also very easy to prepare. Also, chicken is usually liked by both children and adults and is truly delicious with this sausage-and-mushroom meat stuffing. A flavorful combination that is also a seasonal dish. It's time to make the most of autumn!

If you like soft, sweet buns, you'll love this chocolate brioche. The Emile Henry crown mold gives it a beautiful shape, perfect for serving at a celebration.

It's autumn, and it's the season for chestnuts, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins; it seems like we’re starting to crave baking pies, tarts, cakes, and pastries with apples and pears. In a way we want to turn on the oven to fill our home with those intoxicating scents of butter, cinnamon, and sugar. If only we could keep that smell in a glass jar and open it every now and then!

At home, when the cooler season arrives stews are made more often, and it is the perfect time to recall the recipe for papas en amarillo. In my homeland this very typical dish is prepared, which is very simple, tasty and economical. It has it all! It is a dish, as I tell you, very flavorful, and also eye-catching because of its colors.

These butter cookies are made with our cookie press — what do you think? A churrera is very similar to a cookie press in its operation: a tube with a plunger that pushes the dough through a die. A little bit of force and not much mystery.

The origin of flan goes back to the Romans, who prepared it both in sweet and savory versions. The sweet version was much sweeter than the one we know, as it was sweetened with honey. At first pepper was added—yes, pepper as you hear it—until pepper was replaced by the caramel used today.

With this mushroom soup with tomato we kick off the season of spoon dishes. Just into autumn it's time for a wardrobe change and also a change on the refrigerator shelves, which now hold the ingredients needed to prepare creams, stews, or legumes in a pressure cooker.

I confess I'm a coward and I didn't dare turn on the oven until the heat had eased a bit. That said, I was certain that when I did it would be to make this delicious Dutch Baby Pancake, and it was a complete success.

If there's an easy-to-make bread, it's undoubtedly Irish soda bread. Few ingredients, easy to find, that only need to be mixed, lightly kneaded, and baked. In half an hour of baking we have a delicious bread ready to eat. No waiting, proofing, complicated kneading techniques or anything like that.

Rabbit is one of my favorite meats, especially when we have barbecues at home. It's a white meat, low in fat and I find it very flavorful, especially when we help it with aromatics like rosemary and thyme. I also enjoy preparing it "al ajillo" (with garlic), with rice, or like today, with this Moroccan-style rabbit that almost cooks itself since I finished the cooking in the oven.