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October 17th, 2022

Pasta e Fagioli from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

An easy and delicious soup. I used lardons for the meat. We were thinking that chicken sausages would be good, saucisse de volaille or merguez de volaille, cut in quarters lenghtwise, then into little... read more >


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Recipes: The Cooking of Spain and Portugal

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TIme-Life - 1970

This is a one-dish meal, simple to make and quite tasty, if not highly spiced.

- Used one kilo of chicken thighs rather than cutting up a chicken, since we like thighs. There were only seven thighs, five biggish ones and two smallish ones. If you used a whole chicken, it would be best to cut it into eight smaller pieces rather than four big ones.
- Used olive oil rather than lard.
- Used 100g lardons instead of 4 ounces of salt pork.

I used lardons nature (rather than fumé) and regular paprika (rather than the hot or smoked kind). I think I might try smoked lardons and paprika when I make this again.

My post on the recipe: http://inkayeskitchen.blogspot.fr/2014/03/the-cooking-of-spain-and-portugal-arroz.html

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4th May 2014

Broa : page 83

A yeast-risen bread with fine-grain cornmeal. Good stuff.

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Used only half the butter for sautéing the onions. Made a nice dinner.

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These are figs stuffed with a mixture of ground almonds and shredded chocolate, traditionally served after dinner with port. They were indeed good with port. Would also be a good little sweetmeat to serve with coffee or tea.

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Used smoked paprika instead of plain. Made too many potatoes, trying to use up the stash. (Steamed green beans went well with the tomato sauce.)
We liked it, but thought it nothing special.

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4th May 2014

Natillas—Soft Custard : page 90

This is a nice custard, made with cinnamon rather than vanilla as the flavoring. It wasn't too sweet, as can happen with American recipes.
Made six servings as advertised.

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4th May 2014

Potaje de Vigilia : page 6

The soup, traditionally served on Good Friday, is with made with salt cod, spinach, and chickpeas. Had 500g of chickpeas (instead of 1lb) and 360g of salt cod (instead of 1/2lb). Made lots.

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4th May 2014

Tortilla de Patate : page 67

Good instructions. Used an awful lot of olive oil, so I did quite some blotting of the potatoes. But the results were tasty.

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