Cook a long: Hazelnut Gazpacho

Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios Carmen Maura

The return of the much missed twitter #cookalong is on Tuesday 5th July.

How a #cookalong works

It’s a twitter class rather than simply a cooking demo or a recipe follow. You gather together the ingredients listed below and have them in your kitchen by 7.30pm on Tuesday 5th July. You follow @catalan_cooking on . . . → Read More: Cook a long: Hazelnut Gazpacho

Cook a long Joan Roca’s Calamares Thurs 17th Feb

La-cuina-de-la-meva-mare

Joan Roca is one of the three Roca brother behind the Michelin starred restaurant el Cellar de Can Roca in Girona. It is the kind of place that has a tasting menu, costs over €150 per head with wine and you eat oysters with a distillate of earth, so it’s not the kind of . . . → Read More: Cook a long Joan Roca’s Calamares Thurs 17th Feb

Twitter Cookalong 12th Jan – Cream of Cauliflower Soup

Why you need quad pics on an iPhone is beyond me

It’s January and all the overdoses of Christmas are a faint memory. We’re all skint, fat and cold. With that in mind the twitter cookalong is a vegetable soup.

Now I hate cauliflower. Not as much as brussel sprouts – they are the actual spawn of Satan as far as I am concerned, but . . . → Read More: Twitter Cookalong 12th Jan – Cream of Cauliflower Soup

The Caldeirada Cook-A-Long: The Results

My Caldeirada

Simultaneous cooking and tweeting didn’t get more complicated than the Caldeirada Cookalong. It really doesn’t get tougher than this If you missed it the tweets are below. The recipe and intro are here

RT @FoodUrchin Have had this in the big fridge (garden) chilling, think I should try a drop #cookalong http://twitpic.com/3bemzq

So . . . → Read More: The Caldeirada Cook-A-Long: The Results

Caldeirada (Galician Fish) Cook-a-long Mon 29th Nov 8pm

The next cook-a-long is Monday 29th November and is part of the Wineyard Deli in Morecambe’s Project Awesome. It’s a Galician dish called caldeirada. So get in your kitchen, with the below ingredients, a large pot and a small frying pan and get on twitter at 8pm to follow Catalan_cooking‘s updates.

The recomended wine . . . → Read More: Caldeirada (Galician Fish) Cook-a-long Mon 29th Nov 8pm

Tortilla cook a long

Making Tortilla

For the cook-along this month we’ll be making Spanish tortilla. Tortilla is ironically one of the easiest but also the most difficult Spanish recipes there is. The basic Spanish tortilla is onion, potato and egg, where the onions and potatoes are fried in a frying pan, added to the beaten egg, put back in the pan and then fried altogether to make an omelette. What could go wrong? . . . → Read More: Tortilla cook a long

Chicken Escabeche- The First Catalan Cooking Cookalong – 15th September 2010

Chicken Escabeche

This is the first of the monthly cookalong on this blog.We will be live tweeting and blogging all through this so feel free to ask questions in the comments or on twitter. Everyone who is on the #cookalong pls using this hash tag. Any questions, just tweet. . . . → Read More: Chicken Escabeche- The First Catalan Cooking Cookalong – 15th September 2010

Quixote Twitter Cook a long

in his honour, the first twitter-cook-a-long is a really old Spanish dish which would have been around in Cervantes time. It’s called escabeche (escabetx in Catalan) and, was originally, a way of conserving meat or fish by cooking it in vinegar. . . . → Read More: Quixote Twitter Cook a long