Tag Archives: Spanish
A Latin (or should that be Russian?) take on an SA braai favourite
We were invited to a braai last weekend and were asked to bring “something salady”. I didn’t have much time to rustle up something elaborate as we’d spent most of the morning in DIY mode. Then I remembered the quintessential … Continue reading
Chorizo and prawn salad
Text Louise Liebenberg I WAS a bit stuck for a supper dish for Salvelio and myself the other night and with hunger pangs increasing by the minute I dreamed up this unusual salad. Fortuitously enough there were some leftover salad … Continue reading
Recipe: Turkish chopped salad from ‘Casa Moro’
By Louise Liebenberg Sam and Sam Clarke, the British chefs behind the celebrated restaurant Moro, say this chopped salad, a refreshing mixture of tomatoes, peppers, cucumber and coriander “offset with creamy yoghurt and caramelised butter”, is wonderful on its own, … Continue reading
The rice dish that really hits the spot
By Louise Liebenberg MILLIONS around the world know it as Spanish rice and its variations are as endless as those of its other somewhat loftier Mediterranean rice relative, the paella. Drawing on his Latin roots, Salvelio still favours his mother’s … Continue reading
Eat lighter with Med-style ‘diet’
Louise Liebenberg SUMMER is a time when you want to eat lighter, especially after the many over-indulgences of Christmas, the new year and holiday eating in general. Now that all that is behind us it’s time to start anew, pick … Continue reading
Foodie Friends: A Tapa Dish with Julio Carlos Perez Sanchez
IT’S always enjoyable to host a beloved family friend from overseas – especially when said friend is an accomplished cook raring to be let loose in your kitchen! Salvelio’s best friend, Julio Carlos Perez Sanchez, is one such visitor – … Continue reading
World Cup Cook-off: Spain vs Holland Final
ONE of the most successful World Cups in the event’s 80-year history is finally at an end – and South Africans are still rather chuffed with themselves over the country’s spectacular hosting of the soccer showpiece! Sadly, also coming to … Continue reading
World Cup Cook-off: Spain and the USA
The Global Table blog is several weeks into its World Cup Cook-off project, in which recipes are shared from each of the 32 nations that will be represented in the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa come June. Today’s … Continue reading
Clams with pimenton and grilled sardines from Cadiz
The last time we were in Spain we took a trip from Salvelio’s brother Stephanus’s home in Cordoba to Cadiz, where Salvelio’s sister-in-law Maria del Mar and her family have been enjoying splendid seaside summer holidays since childhood. Cadiz, which … Continue reading
Salmorejo Cordobés
Whenever we are in Spain to visit family and friends, we always spend several weeks in the ancient city of Cordoba, where Salvelio’s brother, Stephanus, has a language school called Meyer’s School of English. Stephanus and his lovely wife, Maria … Continue reading
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