Visita de La Academia de Gastronomía a La Murta – Nota de prensa
[PRESS RELEASE IN ENGLISH] Resumen: 150 recetas de 35 chefs del pueblo de La Murta. El libro "Spanish Village Cooking - Recetas del Campo" está escrito en inglés y castellano y está en venta por el mundo entero. Para mucho más detalle, pincha:...
British Authors in Spain – Joan Fallon
Meet Joan Fallon - Novelist in Málaga Joan Fallon was born in Scotland and after a career spanning teaching, lecturing and starting her own management and development company she moved to Málaga, Spain to become a writer. No stranger to tragedy, the loss of Joan's...
The Chefs of La Murta Prepare a Degustacion Menu for La Academia de Gastronomía de la Región de Murcia
The La Murta Chefs are excited this week. They have been asked by the Academia de Gastronomía de la Región de Murcia to prepare a tasting meal of 13 different dishes from the book Spanish Village Cooking - Recetas del Campo. The Academy selected their favourite 13...
Visiting Cartagena? Take A Trip To The Canteras Area…
Canteras is a coastal town with its most notable destination the anti-aircraft battery located in the mountains, Batería De Roldán. You gain access by the road at Estación Naval de la Algameca, which is in very bad condition but worth as visit. However there are...
Bird Salad – Ensalada De Aves Sabrosa Y Esquisita – Spanish Recipe
This is a great salad recipe, full of flavour, simple to prepare and looks impressive. You can have it as a starter or as a main course, the quantities in this recipe serve 4 as a main course. Choose whatever type of poultry you like - we used small...
Book Launch Cake for Spanish Village Cooking – Recetas del Campo
Here's the giant book cover cake we made for the launch of the book Spanish Village Cooking - Recetas del Campo. It fed about 100 people in total. It's made from: 4 x 50cm square bizcochos (Spanish cakes) 2.5l of ganache for filling and crumb coat 3k fondant for...
It Takes A Village To Raise A Cookery Book
[PRESS RELEASE IN SPANISH] In December 2013, after the success of their last cookery book project with Spanish Cooking Uncovered: Farmhouse Favourites, Debbie & Marcus Jenkins came up with an idea to work with their local village ladies and the fiesta committee to...
Criar Un Libro De Cocina Es Un Trabajo Del Pueblo Entero – Comunicado de Prensa
[PRESS RELEASE IN ENGLISH] En diciembre de 2013, después del éxito de su último proyecto de libro de cocina “Spanish Cooking Uncovered: Farmhouse Favourites”, Debbie & Marcus Jenkins se le ocurrió una idea para trabajar con sus vecinas y Comisión de Fiestas para...
Sémola – Grits – Spanish Recipe & Video
This is a very old recipe, popular here in the countryside - campo - of Murcia & Cartagena. A little bit like couscous or Southern American grits, Sémola is a savoury dish made from flour, onion and chorizo. It's smooth, nutritious and...
Easter in Spain – 8 Great Places to Visit – Murcia, Granada, Barcelona, Canaries, Málaga, Seville, Alicante & Valencia
Spain is well known for its Holy Week traditions (Semana Santa). Holy Week, the last week of Lent (the week immediately before Easter) sees religious processions, festivities, parties and traditions in all the cities around Spain. If you visit any of the events during...
Conejo al Ajillo – Rabbit with Garlic – Spanish Recipe
Sometimes called Conejo al Ajillo Cabañil, this is a very old recipe thought to come from the campo farmers when people cooked in their countryside huts or cabins, cabañas - hence Cabañil. There's an abundance of wild rabbits in the countryside of Murcia,...
Recipe for Spanish Stuffed Eggs – Watch the Video & Download the free ebook
Make this super simple Spanish recipe with your kids. Watch the Spanish Stuffed Eggs video. [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:2] Stuffed Eggs Stuffed Eggs12 hard boiled eggs2 tins of tuna1 tin of tomato frito (see recipe in Miscellaneous)½ jar of...
Recipes in Spanish Village Cooking: Recetas del Campo
There are over 150 recipes in our new book, Spanish Village Cooking: Recetas del Campo, in both English & Spanish: Recipes in English Michirones Boiled Egg Snowmen Stuffed Tomatoes Stuffed Red Peppers Cheese Croquettes Murcian Meat Pie Fried Goat's Cheese...
The Making of A Cookery Book – Transcribing, Translating, Photographing & Testing The Recipes – Part 2
With more than 70 notebooks the first major task was to index the recipes and find out what the scope of the book could be. Paco manfully got started cataloguing, reading and sorting through the notebooks, and realised he had 2668 individual, handwritten recipes. They...
The Matanza in Spain – Fiesta de la Matanza – What Happens…
At the end of November or early December here in Murcia we often have a celebration called a matanza. A pig, that has been raised here in La Murta, is humanely slaughtered at a local abattoir and then returned to the villagers, where a skilled butcher will cut the...
Fiesta Funding – Working Hard to Party Hard!
Every year, throughout the year, in villages and towns around Spain, Fiesta Committees - Comisiónes de Fiestas - will be working hard to collect money to pay for the Fiesta Patronale. They will organise macropremios (bingo), parties, lunches, sell lottery tickets and...
Making Sausages Spanish Style – Salchichas
Salchichas are usually made from ground meat (in this case pork) with a skin around it, typically made from intestine. During the matanza at the end of November, the butchers work on their recipes for salchicha - this video shows you the process in our village in La...
Book Review of Spanish Cooking Uncovered: Farmhouse Favourites
Take a look at what other people are saying about Spanish Cooking Uncovered: Farmhouse Favourites. With Thanks To: Odette Butz - The Horse Painter Maru Hughes Gill Murray - Furry Buddies Get the book for more authentic Spanish recipes. Enjoy more than 80...
Gachasmigas – Spanish Wintertime Recipe
Gachasmigas is a specialty of the region of Murcia, using few ingredients and prepared on wet and windy days in the winter. A big pan of gachasmiga can feed a group of 30 or more people. Serve it with winter fruit or vegetables, figs, grapes, oranges......
Video Review of Going Native in Murcia
Here's an awesome video review of our book Going Native in Murcia. With Thanks To: Douglas Cramp Maru Hughes Gill Murray - Furry Buddies Click on the picture to get the book.
The Making of A Cookery Book – How The Notebooks Were Uncovered – Part 1
People have been asking me how we came to make a Spanish cookery book with recipes from the 1950s and earlier. The full story of the recipes is documented in the book, here's how the making of the cookery book unfolded... In July 2013 my friend Paco de Lara got in...
Holiday Cooking With Your Kids – 9 Spanish Recipes
Entertaining your children can be tricky at the best of times, but with long holiday breaks it's even more difficult. If you want to drag them away from the computer pad, television or games console then these 9 recipes should keep them busy no matter what age they...
Videos from Our Property Experts in Spain #wabas12
Take a look at some of our property experts who share tips and ideas for buying, moving to & building here in Spain... Prolific Video man, Graham Hunt in Valencia Video Emilio J Perez - an architect in Valencia Video John Wolfendale on Eco & Energy Efficient...
Something A Little Different… Expat Mistakes, The History of Spain, Video Tours of Barcelona & Crazy Casslar #wabas12
An eclectic mix of writers and bloggers who have been making videos about Spain. Yolanda Solo with the Top 10 Expat Mistakes Video The History of Spain with the Gazpacho Monk Video Simon Harris on Barcelona Video Maya Middlemiss (Crazy Casslar) on Geocaching and...
Chocolate Coconut Balls – Bolas de Coco y Chocolate – Spanish Recipe
These are so easy to make and are lush. With just 3 ingredients you can't make a simpler gift for friends and family. Get the kids to help you roll them up and coat them in the coconut. Put them in little cases and share! Chocolate Coconut...