by Debbie Jenkins | Cooking, evergreen, food, The Book
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...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, Cooking, evergreen, Fiestas, food, Murcia Region, Video
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...
by Debbie Jenkins | Cooking, evergreen, Fiestas, food, la murta, Murcia Region, Video
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...
by Debbie Jenkins | Cooking, evergreen, food, RECIPES, The Book, Video
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...
by Debbie Jenkins | Cooking, food, Murcia Region, RECIPES, The Book, Video
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… basically...
by Debbie Jenkins | Cooking, evergreen, food, Murcia Region, The Book
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...