Miscellaneous

In this post, An Introduction to Pasta Making, I would like to share with you some thoughts on how to make perfect pasta. It really helps if you have a couple of attachments for your mixer, one to create the correct thickness of pasta, and (read more…)

In a previous post, An Introduction to Smoking Foods, I covered the subject on how to hot-smoke food. In this post, I´d like to take a look at an alternative method of preparing food for consumption. An Introduction to Curing investigates the use of salt (read more…)

  This time I would like to give you an introduction to sausage making at home, as this is absolutely one of my favourite kitchen past-times. If you enjoyed this, perhaps you would like to try another post in the “introduction” series: an introduction to (read more…)

For many years I´ve loved smoked foods, from cheese to salmon and mackerel to gammon and sausages. As most of the smoked versions of these don´t seem to be available in this part of Spain, I decided to do a bit of research into whether (read more…)

Today, I´d like to give you a couple of examples of how we use up some of our favourite leftovers. Who doesn´t like leftovers? I feel that throwing food away is wasteful, and it only takes a little effort to take some leftovers and create (read more…)