Quite a long while back I was sent a jar of Romesco sauce to be creative with. Well I wasn’t all that creative, but what I made was a real spring treat. Romesco sauce is a Catalan sauce that is typically made from almonds, pine nuts, and/or hazelnuts, roasted garlic, olive oil and nyora peppers, [...]
Jose Pizarro’s recent guide to Spanish cooking with rice and the chance finding of some Unearthed Catalan cooking sausages at a local store really got me in the mood to embrace the virtues of Spains cuisine; “No, not Spanish, Catalan” (Anya von Bremzen). Catalonia (Catalunya) is a country within a country, with its own language, complex history and [...]