Comments on: Spanish food: tapas and pintxos

By: La Recette du Jour » L’Auberge du Vieux Puits, Fontjoncouse: restaurant review

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:14:36 +0000

[...] surprise, the waiter presented the box of mignardises while we were still eating dessert. Shades of Spanish restaurants; I almost expected him to snatch my unfinished dessert plate away. But it was certainly [...]

By: La Recette du Jour » Spain versus France

La Recette du Jour » Spain versus France — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:05:54 +0000

[...] could write an entire blog post about this. Oh, I already have! I’ve always found it easy to slip into the Spanish timetable, eating lunch at two and dinner at [...]

By: La Recette du Jour » Vintage Feasts: Good Food on a Budget, by Georgina Horley

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:51:16 +0000

[...] about the slight hiatus in this series. Somehow, while I was living in rural Spain, I had no desire to cook meals from elderly English cookbooks. Tapas and very simple food were the [...]

By: veronicay

veronicay — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:28:52 +0000

LOL, that’s brilliant Pueblo Girl! Thanks for pointing me to it; the Basque country is a fascinating place, and the more I see of it the more I want to know about it. Back to the land of haute cuisine in just one week …

By: Pueblo Girl

Pueblo Girl — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:34:29 +0000

You will understand then, why one of my favourite blogs, written by an Australian living in the Basque country, is subtitled “The land of no spice” (http://landofnospice.blogspot.com/).

Thanks for commenting over at mine.

By: veronicay

veronicay — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:30:18 +0000

Hi Sally

It is totally gorgeous on a hot day, an excellent discovery!

By: sally

sally — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:07:16 +0000

Was immediately taken with the idea of lemon sorbet mixed with Cava, or I would use the cremente we get here, I love popping down into Spain.

By: veronicay

veronicay — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:32:42 +0000

It’s fascinating! But it has to be said that the Basque country is particularly special.

By: Chez Loulou

Chez Loulou — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:08:52 +0000

Interesting to hear about the differences between rural France and rural Spain and makes me want to head back to Spain to experience the countryside, something I’ve never done.

By: veronicay

veronicay — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:35:13 +0000

Air-dried hams Looking at them the other night we calculated that there must be several thousand euros’ worth …