Vegetables

Revuelto de setas, scrambled eggs with wild mushrooms, Mama Ía blog

Scrambled eggs with wild mushrooms, Revuelto de Setas —and the walled city of Avila

Revuelto de setas, scrambled eggs with wild mushrooms, Mama Ía blogIn my aim to make the most of my time, I love it when I can make two different dishes out of one. Wild garlicky mushrooms with sherry that I made as a side dish for an entrée, become today one of the main ingredients in revuelto de setas, scrambled eggs with wild mushrooms.

Wild garlicky mushrooms, Mama Ía blog

ralla de Avila, Mama Ía blogToday’s recipe for scrambled eggs with wild mushrooms is simple, because it uses the previous post’s recipe. This is one of those comfort food, rustic dishes that are made all over Spain, but are specially popular in central Spain, in the Castiles. 

Last summer, I had the chance to taste some of those dishes during my trip to the cities of Salamanca, Avila and Segovia in the region (more…)

Wild garlicky mushrooms, Mama Ía blog

Wild garlicky mushrooms with sherry—and Salamanca part II

Wild garlicky mushrooms, Mama Ía blogThis is in a way a continuation of the last post, where I talked about the centers of knowledge in the Spanish city of Salamanca, the University of Salamanca and the Pontifical University of Salamanca (you can check this post here). The recipe I’m sharing with it, setas al ajillo con jerez, wild garlicky  mushrooms with sherry, seems to go very well with it, not only because we are in the season of fall (and it finally feels and looks like it) but because they are somewhat color complimentary (I will explain).

Wild garlicky mushrooms, Mama Ía blog

Salamanca Cathedral, Mama Ía blog

Apart from its universities, Salamanca has an extraordinary collection of historical buildings that not only makes it a popular destination for visitors, but also granted it to be (more…)

Fried eggplant sticks, Mama Ía blog

Fried eggplant sticks —and the university city of Salamanca

Fried eggplant sticks, Mama Ía blogI never imagined when I planted two small eggplant plants in my vegetable garden that they would grow to give such generous production for our family. I get 2 to 4 eggplants every couple of weeks, just enough to supply us with produce to make some of the dishes we are familiar with, like pisto, (check the recipe here) or fried eggplant sticks. Soft on the inside, crunchy on the outside, they are so addictive that you will not be able to stop at just a few!

Eggplants, Mama Ía blogUniversidad de Salamanca, Mama Ía blogI leave you with a few photos of the eggplants in the garden, used to prepare today’s recipe, fried eggplant sticks. But I wanted to add some more to this post. Today is National Teaching Spanish Day, and I couldn’t help talking about it. Why? Because (more…)

Fruit and pinenut stuffing, Mama ía blog

Fruit and Pinenut Stuffing —November means Thanksgiving

Fruit and pinenut stuffing, Mama ía blogEvery time Thanksgiving comes around, I feel I have to explain myself about why I post these recipes. Because today’s recipe, fruit and pinenut stuffing, is not something I ever cooked in Spain. We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Spain, therefore its cuisine and traditional dishes are something purely American. 

Vegetable garden in fall, Mama Ís blogPears, Mama ía blog

Most of what I cook at home are dishes from my homeland, Spain, sometimes adapted to the American market and the ingredients I can find here. But on many occasions I go by the traditions of the place where I live. My family wouldn’t have it any other way. 

One such traditions is Thanksgiving. After (more…)

Crunchy artichokes, Mama Ía blog

Crispy artichokes —and the vegetable garden Part 5: the lattice fence and the gate

Crunchy artichokes, Mama Ía blogAlcachofas, artichokes, are probably my mom‘s favorite vegetable. And if you make them using this recipe, it might become your favorite vegetable too. Bye-bye chips! For that touch of crunchiness plus an overdose of flavor, try alcachofas fritas, crispy artichokes, which could easily be called artichoke chips.

Not only are these crispy artichokes so tasty that you will not be able to stop after eating one or two, but they’re also highly nutritious.

Vegetable garden, Mama Ía blog

Ta da! We have a gate

Not only are these crispy artichokes so tasty that you will not be able to stop after eating one or two, but they’re also highly nutritious. Artichokes have (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…)

Mushrooms with leeks and peas, Mama Ía blog

Mushrooms with leeks and peas—healthy habits and a 2021 wish

Mushrooms with leeks and peas, Mama Ía blogWe are starting out the year right, with lots of vegetables and lighter meals. Today’s recipe, mushrooms with leeks and peas, is so satisfying it will not leave you craving any animal protein.

Mushrooms with leeks and peas, Mama Ía blog

I don’t consider we over ate during the holiday season. Sure, I’ll admit we indulged in more sweets and Christmas treats. However, the extra sweets we had, when combined with (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…)

Cucumber gazpacho, Mama ía blo

Cucumber Gazpacho —and a trip to Assisi

Cucumber gazpacho, Mama ía blogWe’re starting to see the fruits of our efforts, and with a bounty of vegetables from our garden, I‘ll be posting more recipes that use them. This post brings you a wonderful gazpacho that could be rightly called green gazpacho, a cucumber gazpacho that includes not only cucumber but also avocado and some other fruits of our garden: green pepper, jalapeño, basil and parsley. You see? A green gazpacho!

Assisi, Mama Ía blog

Cucumber gazpacho, Mama Ía blog (more…)

Cod in smooth pisto sauce, Mama Ía blog

Cod in Smooth Pisto Sauce —a confined kitchen at Lent

Cod in smooth pisto sauce, Mama Ía blogIt’s a weird sensation these days, isn’t it? We wake up every morning wondering what the new limitation will be for the day ahead —whether we’ll be able to go out freely for a walk in the neighborhood, whether we’ll be able to fly next week to see a loved one. COVID-19 has turned us upside down as in the most dystopian of stories.

Memphis, Mama Ía blogMemphis, Mama Ía blogRoutine tasks we used to do without giving them a second thought now become a highlight of the day – leave the house for a moment to pick up the mail; take the garbage to the curb. A trip to the grocery store (more…)