Colors and Balconies of the Basque Seaside

Announcing - Food In Colors - January 2009 53 1
January and February are beautiful months - My window sill becomes my favourite haunt as I hear the excited chirps of diverse winged visitors. The speckled starlings visit me in noisy groups and create quite a racket, but their sharp whistles[...]

Merluza a la Vasca (Basque style hake) 55 1 (1 vote)
For Mother's Day, I thought I'd fix my mom (and the rest of the family) one of my favorite Spanish dishes, sampled often at Restaurante Colon in the village of Torrejon.  The fish cooks in a savory, garlic laced, green sauce[...]

Gratin blanc et blanc, veggie colors and a furikake 53 1
A piping hot creamy gratin just out of the oven. Cute pastel crudites. A stir-fry for the greens. For this, I had a home-made furikake . Furikake means a powder mix to dispatch on top of rice or whatever to bring[...]

BASQUE POTATO TORTILLA 55 1 (1 vote)
 I loveee Sundays , something special about Sundays brings on more sunshine n sparkle into my day, and here i was last sunday , whisking up a tortilla , a spanish name to a popular omelet served with salad , and on toothpicks ,for lunch or[...]