Sweet rice pudding

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This  sweet dessert always remember me from my childhood. 

This  is the traditional recipe in my family  but there are several variations depending on the country or region. I hope you like it.

Basmati rice with sausages and cheese

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I know when it's hot outside the last thing you want to do is turn on the oven but...  I had all the ingredients and it was too long since I've prepared this recipe last time… 

Vegetarian "meatballs" with cheese and onion sauce

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If you want to taste a different meatballs,  these meatless “meatballs” are perfect for you, they  are totally vegetarian and delicious to eat. 

How to cook basmati rice

Easy canapes - Part 1

Salmon canapes - Sobrassada canapes

Green pesto

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Basil is an herb originally from Asia but now widely used in the Mediterranean cuisine. Every year  in spring I sow a pot of basil and I have fresh leaves all the summer to make sauces or salads.

Chicken curry with basmati rice (Spanish style)

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A few years ago walking through the “Barrio Santa Cruz” in Seville (South of Spain),  after we getting  lost in its narrow streets all morning,  we ended up eating at a small site, that unlike most local places  didn’t offered typical meal for tourists. To our pleasant surprise they served quiches, crepes, camembert with jam and other dishes totally unknowns  for me at that time.

Camembert with raspberry jam

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This recipe is so simple that  I’m gonna fill this post with a little of history.

The camembert began to be made in the late 18th century at Camembert, a  village in Normandy,  northern France, from which it takes its name.

Gazpacho II - "El sopeao"

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The “sopeao” is a variant of gazpacho, very typical here in Sevilla (South of Spain), where people eat this as single dish on the hottest days of summer, those days above 40 ºC  (104 ºF) that neither lizards endure the sun. 

Andalusian cold tomato soup - Gazpacho

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This cold soup is very typical in the south of Spain,  in the region of Andalusia exactly,   from where I am.

You can eat gazpacho  in a soup bowl, with diced vegetables as garnish,  or drink it. Either way, it is tasty, refreshing and very healthy, since it is made just with fresh vegetables and a bit of olive oil, salt  and vinegar.

Caprese Salad

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The Caprese salad is an Italian salad originally from the island of Capri,  although it is widespread throughout Italy, in fact I think all who have traveled to Italy have tasted it.

Italians give great importance to this salad because it combines the colors of the Italian flag. A nineteenth-century poet, Francesco Dall'Ongaro, defined these colors in this so pretty way: "White as the Alps, red like volcanoes and green as the plains of Lombardy"

Nutella and hazelnut ice cream

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As every year we have a heat wave here so I think it is a good time to start with ice creams ...

It is very simple to prepare and you don’t need to have an ice cream maker or invert sugar. 

This ice cream is very sweet and creamy. I usually prefer chocolate ice creams less sweet, but my family love this, so here is the recipe.

New York cheesecake

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This is one of my favorite cheesecakes  so I want to share the recipe  as my first entry in this blog. It's quite simple and very tasty. I hope you like it.