I am back with healthy, warm and delicious recipes. Today’s recipe is a dish I use to eat as a child. It is warm, filling, healthy and kids as well as grown ups would love it. It is called a Rata, well no one else calls it that way apart from in my family but…
Homemade roasted butternut squash cup a soup with a crunch! Perfect winter warmer with a crunch! Easy to make, just peel and chop a butternut squash, oinons and few garlic cloves. Put all vegetables in a large oven proof tray, add a bit of oliv eoil, salt and pepper and roast for 45min-1h. You can…
This roast chicken is just amazingly flavoured with a very meaty natural gravy! It is very simple to obtain this lovely brown colour, it just needs a bit of love. So step 1: salt and pepper the whole chicken, Step 2: Massage the whole chicken with freshly squizzed lemon juice Step 3: Massage the chicken…
The EcoStream – The Refill Store in Brighton has posted this picture, I felt I needed to share it with you fellow readers!! If you are interested in saving money whilst protecting our beautiful planet by reducing waste check out their website http://www.ecostreamstore.com/ or just go visit their store!! It is a great concept !!
This video is very representative of the Basque Country. It is in explained in Basque but subtitled in English. Feeling a bit nostalgic watching this video http://vimeo.com/71928632 If you don’t know much about the Basque Country this is a nice video to watch!
I honestly did not know there was a tea for women only!! there was no men’s tea though!! Even though it is rather sexist, I love the flavours and its relaxing! I recommend it
This is one of my favourite dish. I remember my mum making this simple dish as a child. It also happens to be my flatmates favourite.It is rather simple to make you just need all the ingredients, follow the recipe and bring some love to it. By lack of having a flat terra cota dish…
Spiced poached pears with dark chocolate and praline sauce with home made lemon verbena tea!! Perfect afternoon treat.
Look at my cute little soup bowl !!! Ingredients: 1 butternut squash 1 pumpkin small little one like on the picture (I forgot its name) 1tbsp cumin seeds 1 sweet potato or normal potato 1 onion 2 garlic cloves chili flakes (optional) 1 pint stock cubes olive oil, salt, pepper – Peel the butternut…
On my way home this evening I decided to stop at Butlers Wine Cellar, the lady in the shop is really nice and recommended me a really nice Bordeaux the other day so I thought I d go and buy from them again. I really fancied a bottle of Rioja as I knew I still…
Spanish ham and ewe cheese plate with Guindillas chilis and black cherry jam and a nice glass of L a Rose Bourbon, Cadillac Cotes de Bordeaux.
With the cold weather arriving there is nothing better than a warm soup. I also take some to work in a soup mug. I have decided to make two soup each week and freeze the left overs. I obviously love all the traditional soups we all know however I want to change from times to…
Improvised dinner: Had 4 over ripe figs left so I decided to make a quick compote with it to go with lamb cutlets! With a quick mash potato Delicious! No pictures unfortunately, ate it all 🙂
My Little Basque Kitchen 