Cucumber Salad with Mint Dressing —and the Roman City of Tarragona
The recipe I’m sharing today, cucumber salad with mint dressing, is so refreshing and so appropriate for these very high summer temperatures (particularly in Spain) that I wonder why I am publishing it towards the end of August.
Well, I guess one of the reasons is that my vegetable garden, my loved and pampered vegetable garden, hasn’t done very well this year. I don’t exactly know what the reason is – too much rain, or too little sun, or the fact that I wasn’t here for a month to take care of it this summer… Actually, I’ll scratch that last reason, because my (more…)
Alcachofas, 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.
I 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.
We’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!
