Sauces

Lemon marmalade, Mama Ía blog

Lemon marmalade, Spain eating habits and la merienda

Lemon marmalade, Mama Ía blogCitrus marmalades are my favorite ones and since I already featured the recipe for orange marmalade  (one of the blog’s most visited posts!), today is the turn for lemon marmalade.

If you like very sweet marmalades, I have to warn you, this one may not be the one for you. It is citrusy, therefore, more tangy, but obviously, also sweet – otherwise it wouldn’t be a marmalade, right?

Lemon marmalade, Mama Ía blog

Lemons, Mama Ía blogAnd with this recipe, it’s time to address the beloved and most idiosyncratic meal in the Spanish culture: la merienda.

I could translate la merienda to something like the afternoon snack, the (more…)

Bitter orange marmalade, Mama Ía blog

Bitter orange marmalade, the flavor of my Spanish breakfasts

Bitter orange marmalade, Mama Ía blogI can’t help it, but every time I have toast with bitter orange marmalade, or Seville orange marmalade, as the jar may be labeled, I think of my dad.

Bitter orange marmalade was my dad‘s, and also my, favorite marmalade.

Oranges in Taroncheral, Mama Ía blogOranges and lemons, Mama Ía blogFor years, during middle school and high school, our dining room table at breakfast time would become not only the family table where everyone gathered to convene before going on our way to school or to work, but also (more…)

Romesco sauce and calçots, Mama Ia blog

Romesco sauce with calçots, from Cataluña to the world

Romesco sauce and calçots, Mama Ia blogI’ve been wanting to post the recipe for salsa romesco —or rather, salsa romesco con calçots, romesco sauce with calçots—, for a while. So when I spotted some very fat green onions at the market last week, I knew I had to make a calçotada at home. And what a happy coincidence that calçots are now in season in Spain! A mostly winter or very early spring dish, it was also very appropriate to make them as we were being buried in snow, as the photos can attest. School as cancelled for the whole week!

Romesco sauce and calçots, Mama Ia blogSnow in Fort Wayne, Mama Ia blog (more…)

Pisto, Mama Ía blog

Pisto —and building a vegetable garden (Part 3): THE FENCE

Pisto, Mama Ía blogI used so many of my garden vegetables for pisto that its recipe could only be posted alongside more on the progress of the vegetable garden, or Part 3. 

Pisto, Mama Ía blog

Vegetable garden, Mama Ía

Planting the seedlings on a very hot summer day

Tomatoes, peppers and zucchini have been growing with abandon, to the point where, mid November, I still (more…)

Mojo picón y patatas, Mama ía blog

Mojo Picon with Wrinkly Potatoes, for Culinary Diplomacy Spain at Joseph Decuis

Mojo picón y patatas, Mama ía blogCulinary Diplomacy Spain took place at the Joseph Decuis farm on March 22, 2019. A lot has happened since then (I published a book!), but now it’s time to talk about that great evening, and share with you one of the recipes the guests enjoyed, mojo picon with wrinkly potatoes, mojo picón con patatas arrugadas.

Spain at Joseph Decuis Farm, Mama ía blogSpain at Joseph Decuis Farm, Mama ía blog

Joseph Decuis restaurant, located in Roanoke, Indiana, is a farm to fork restaurant that has been voted for years in a row as the best restaurant in Indiana. The restaurant itself (more…)

Allioli

Aioli, or Allioli, a versatile sauce

AllioliI can’t believe today is the feast of the Epiphany, Three Kings Day, and I am making allioli while watching the Three Kings Parade on Spanish television. But these are Matthew’s last few days at home before he returns to college, and he wants to have homey, special dishes before he leaves, like the seafood paella I’ll be (more…)