October 4, 2026

Easy Fideuá —Seafood Paella’s cousin made simple

Natacha Sanz Caballero Rice, Grains and Pasta healthy food, mediterranean diet, one pan dish, paella, seafood, Spanish cuisine, Valencian cuisine 2 Comments

It has been over 11 years since I posted the recipe for fideuá. Coincidentally, I think it was also my very first blog post on Mama Ía! Time has flown ever since, and I cannot believe there are over 200 recipes now on the blog.

This is the life!

Onteniente prepares for Saturday night dinners al fresco

Riding around Torreblanca

I make paella and fideuá very often, and you can find some of those recipes in this blog. However, I’ve been told a few times that people (more…)

May 26, 2023

Arroz del senyoret, gentleman’s rice —and my family’s link to Calpe and the dish

Natacha Sanz Caballero Rice, Grains and Pasta Calpe, mediterranean diet, paella, Parador de Ifach, Peñón de Ifach, restaurante Baydal, rice dish

The word “senyoret” means gentleman in the Valencian language. Arroz del senyoret (where the consonants ny combined are pronounced as a Spanish ñ in the Valencian language) is a seafood paella where all the seafood shells have been peeled off and therefore the person eating it will not have to bother removing the shells from the shrimp or the mussels —hence “del senyoret”, for the gentleman.

El Parador de Ifach, hoy: una torre de apartamentos y una zona común de recreo a imagen del antiguo parador

The story of this dish is peculiar and very familiar to me and my family, as it started out at the restaurant where we enjoyed many meals during my childhood. I’m talking (more…)

January 12, 2016

Seafood Paella, Made Famous by… You

Natacha Sanz Caballero Rice, Grains and Pasta, Fish calamari, paella, seafood, seafood paella, shrimp

After having shared the recipe for allioli in my previous post, it was only fitting that I would share the recipe for seafood paella, which is what I mentioned I would be accompanying the allioli with. Matthew, the most paella-loving of my children, left yesterday for his second semester in college, which means I might not make paella for (more…)

September 28, 2015

Valencian Paella, Cooked on the Fire

Natacha Sanz Caballero Rice, Grains and Pasta chicken, cooking on the fire, garrofón, lunch, outdoors cooking, paella, paella valenciana, rice, saffron, Valencian paella

I didn’t think I’d be posting the recipe for paella valenciana, Valencian paella, this early in the life of Mama Ía blog. I don’t know, I thought I had to do a few more simple recipes first, ease into the paella, maybe get you acquainted with the blog, in particular with the section on paella and all the information there that I highly (more…)