Quarantine pain au chocolat

Let's keep children busy in the kitchen

Bollería de cuarentena

Si, seguimos encerrados en casa. Y hay que entretener a los más pequeños de la casa, que si no ¡nos comen vivos! Ayer Fernando y yo hicimos pain au chocolat, también conocidos como napolitanas de chocolate. Hace unos años hice un reto de croissants y pain au chocolat desde cero. Y estaban increíbles, lamentablemente la …

Panamanian Johnnycakes

My most recent incursion into the Panamanian cuisine are these delicious johnny cakes or journey cakes. My mother had already told me about them before, but I've never tried them and have to confess that I could not stop eating them. They are typical from the province of Bocas del Toro, one of the most …

Egg braided bread

Merry Christmas! Here is a sneak peek into our Christmas Eve dinner. We had prawns and foie gras as starters, then turkey with ciabatta and roasted chestnuts stuffing (for the vegan in the family I made a delicious sweet potato curry) and an apple tart (pie) for dessert. Everything was delicious, the family was happy, we sang …

Homemade Panamanian Mafá

Near my home in Panama there was a “tienda”,  a dry cleaners, the “55" (some sort of mini market belonging to Enrique and his wife Elsa), a chicken slaughterhouse (led by Enrique’s brother) and a large store for building materials and knickknacks (our favorite place for buying mother’s day presents with our precarious savings), all …

Shrimp patties

My mom, knowing how I love to cook, always sends me cooking magazines or recipes from news papers that she thinks I may like. The recipe for these empanadas was taken from one of those magazines; one called “Recetas de familia” from Mexico and it was posted by Yolanda Mejía Muñoz, from Silao. These are perfect …

Raspberry-Maple pudding cake

Croissants et Pain au Chocolat. I made it!

I haven't forgotten about this month challenge. I know that in some time zones I'm a few minutes late. These last weeks I have been crazy busy, but in a good way. I've been working on my catering business and that kind of busy is the best, don't you think? Well, without further ado, here …

Saint Isidore’s donuts

Two years ago I published the recipe for these very typical treats from the festivities of Saint Isidore the Labourer, patron saint of Madrid. These rosquillas are very popular and a must during this month of May. Their names are quite interesting; they are called silly, smart, there’s the French and those of Saint Claire. The …

Monkey Business

This month the I made it challenge was to make a monkey bread. This was the first time I heard about it! So I was really looking forward to taste it. But I encountered one big problem: All the recipes that I found for Monkey bread listed 2 or 3 cans of buttermilk biscuits and I …