One of the joys of running cooking holidays is the research. Compulsory looking at and eating of delicious things is guaranteed to give you ideas for things to do and share with the cooking holiday guests. Sunday lunch this week was a case in question. We went to Delta Hotel…
La Galera artisan pottery fair.
We didn’t know quite what to expect here. I had hoped that I would run in to a particular potter. We bought lots of pottery for the casita from one of the potters in Miravet. Unfortunately they weren’t there. There were however over 100 other potters from as far afield as…
Taramasalata
One of the courses we run here is Cooking for Men which includes some smoking. Last week whilst at the fish market we saw they had fresh Cod’s Roe. (Huevos de Lluc) and jumped at the opportunity to do it. We have two smokers here a big one that can…
Pink and Orange Coleslaw
This is an excellent alternative to the nasty, acidic, chemical filled, glutinous mess called Coleslaw you get in supermarkets and it fits into the “Eat a Rainbow” way of life we live here at MH. You need 1/4 red cabbage very finely sliced, but take out the core first. 1…
Chicken supper, Mediterranean style
Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic :A Classic french dish. You need a casserole pan for this, an oven and hob friendly one A chicken, whole or portioned. (Yes, free range and organic is best if you like!) Garlic, 40 cloves of garlic with the loose papery jackets off but…
Going live
Vidodos is s a new and exciting way to book activity holidays all over the world.. A sister company to sector leaders “Go learn to.com, they approached us last year to put together a package for them to advertise on their vidados.com site. We have done so and it went live…
Savoury Baked Apples with Belly Pork
Belly pork is sweet and tender with crunchy cracking with a little bit of fat but in a good way. Traditional accompaniments with pork are apples, onions, and of course sage. Think sage and onion stuffing with roast pork and apple Sauce. Pork joints here in Spain are rare and never…
Dual Variety Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Fridays trip to the Oil press consisted of 419 kg of two varieties of olives only; Arbequenia and Marut. The oil looks and smells wonderful. Apples and rosemary as well as a little bit buttery. At the moment it is a bit cloudy still as soon as it settles I…
Veggie boxes
When I was in The UK I used to get a Riverford Organic Farm Veggie box, a small one about £8 back then. There’s an organic farm just down the road from us here and most of their stuff goes up the coast to Organic shops and domestic customers in…
EVOO, Pick and Press holiday
We just started to advertise The EVOO Pick and Press holiday. An activity holiday in Sunny Spain. A week on the farm, picking olives in the traditional way, working in the fresh air, working and eating with the farmers. At the endif the day you get to take the olives to…