Claudia&Julia's Blog

Adding vegetables to certain doughs, such as in pizza, bread, savory muffins or crêpes, gives us a wide range of possibilities to tinker with traditional recipes and turn them into something completely new, with much more striking and appetizing flavors and colors. And along the way it gives us a solution to get the kids at home to eat them more often and, sometimes, almost without even noticing.

The recipe for savory spinach pancakes (you may also know them as "spinach fritters") is a clear example of this.

What I love most about summer is salads, cold soups, and ice creams. That's why I always try to prepare a wide variety of each so people at home don't "get bored" at mealtime. We can make an incredible assortment beyond the lettuce, tomato, and cucumber salad. One of the latest dishes that has us totally hooked is these coconut-battered prawns with grapefruit salad. It's a true explosion of flavor and textures, very different from the other kinds of salads we usually eat.

Healthy, fun, tasty and very easy to prepare. These zucchini and feta fritters have everything to help you impress your guests or to treat yourself. They can be served as a starter or as a side dish, although nothing prevents them from being the stars of the aperitif.

Zucchini takes center stage in this skillet bread recipe: the zucchini bread recipe becomes a staple once you've made it just once. The zucchini gives the bread plenty of juiciness, while goat cheese adds intensity. You have to try it!

A giant torrija with a vanilla aroma, fried in oil and butter, and accompanied by caramelized banana... All of it drizzled with melted chocolate! In my opinion it’s a perfect combination, that turns this recipe into one for delicious, ultimate torrijas.

Fritters are a very typical dessert in Spanish cuisine. I’m bringing you an easy recipe to make classic airy fritters and explaining how to prepare vanilla pastry cream and Chantilly or whipped cream fillings. I’ll also tell you how to make them puff up a lot and turn out very hollow. I encourage you to make them because they’re truly delicious. You’ll see your family appreciates that little bit of time in the kitchen. A luxurious dessert for very little money.

You probably know I love exploring simple recipes that fill the table with delicious sides without requiring much extra time in the kitchen. So today I bring the recipe for lemon asparagus, a dish that can be a starter if you want to enjoy it on its own, or an appetizer (I'll tell you how), and it's certainly the perfect vegetable to accompany a meat or fish dish.

This miso mushroom recipe offers a delicious and surprising combination of sweet and savory flavors. Today's recipe is undoubtedly a perfect everyday option, because you'll make it in no time and it will liven up any meal with its flavor and contrast.

You can make pizza without turning on the oven! How about that? The skillet pizza recipe is ideal for making assorted mini pizzas or preparing a delicious individual-sized pizza, but without needing to turn on the oven — yes, a pizza recipe without an oven exists!

I love the way the different cuisines of the Asian continent season their dishes. The blandest foods are transformed into tasty bites, with peculiar and very powerful flavors. Among my favorites are gyozas, Chinese dumplings that I could eat with both hands every day of the week.

I bring you some banana pancakes, some delicious sugar-free pancakes. These pancakes are made from banana (banana is the ingredient that helps us sweeten the batter and avoid using sugar) and oats, so they are very healthy and very easy and quick to prepare!

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.