Mercado San Miguel is another famous market in Madrid, located just off Plaza Mayor.
It’s a great place to get tapas from as little as €1.50 and drinks are around €3. They have various stalls with jamon, cheese, olives, as well as sweet treats. It’s perfect for a casual drink night and it won’t break the bank!
Hasta luego!
Lorena
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I love all cheeses, especially if its melted and poured over my gnocchi. We had a family party the other weekend, so my refrigerator was filled with all sorts of cheeses. The classic cheddar, swiss, blue cheese, romano, gouda, and my favorite- parmesan. One night I decided to create my own alfredo sauce and it came out amazing. Here it is:
Ingredients-
3 Tablespoons of Butter
3 Garlic Gloves (2 smashed, 1 finely choped)
3/4 cup of Heavy Cream
3/4 cup of shredded Gouda
1/3 cup of Blue Cheese
1/4 cup of Parmesan
2 packages of Gnocchi
Salt & Pepper to taste
1. Melt 2 tablespoons of garlic on low heat and add in 2 garlic gloves smashed.
2. After the garlic gloves infused the butter, roughly 5 minutes, take the gloves out and put them aside for now.
3. Now add another tablespoon of butter to the already melted butter, and 1 garlic clove that is finely chopped.
4. Once the chopped garlic is almost golden brown, pour in the 3/4 of a cup of heavy cream.
5. Let the cream thicken for roughly 15 minutes. Make sure the heat is low- you do not want to rush any part of this sauce.
6. While the cream in thickening, bring a pot of water to a boil. Add salt.
7. Once the cream has thickened, now add in the shredded gouda, parmesan and the crumbled blue cheese and one of the smashed garlic cloves from earlier.
8. Let all the cheeses melt and garlic infuse the sauce, roughly 8 minutes. Add freshly cracked black pepper to the finished sauce.
9. Add gnocchi to the salted boiling water and cook according to package.
10. Combine the cooked gnocchi with the sauce and serve hot!
Enjoy!
xoxo
I remember years ago when I was much younger, my dad and I tried Rachael Ray’s recipe for potato pancakes. But for some reason we did not like how it came out- which was very odd because we loved her and were always pleased with her dishes.
Since then, I kind of forgot about it and never really tried making potato pancakes again, because I didn’t want to go through all the trouble. But last week I had a random craving for them. It was Labor Day, I had to babysit until well after dinner time and my family was a good family friends house for a BBQ.
Being home alone is great for me. I can create recipes and try things out without everyone coming into the kitchen asking me what am I doing, or sneaking a taste of whatever I might be making. So I decided to run to the store and grab 2 ingredients- Idaho potatoes and onions.
What I came up with was delicious and really easy. And only consisted of 4 ingredients (salt & pepper are always given). So here it is:
Ingredients- makes roughly 12 pancakes
1 Idaho potato
2 small yellow onions
6 to 7 tablespoons of GF flour
2 eggs, beaten
Salt to taste
Optional-
Apple Sauce
Fage Greek Yogurt (or sour cream)
1. Grate the potato with a hand grater and make sure to get the excess moisture out. Use a stack of paper towels and lay half of the grated potatoes onto of the stack of towels. Then place another small stack of paper towels on top and press down and squeeze the moisture out. Place the potato gratings in a bowl. Do the same with the other half of potatoes using new clean paper towels.
2. Grate 2 small onions on the hand grater and get the excess moisture out- do the same as the potatoes.
3. Once potatoes and onions are grated and the excess moisture is out- add in 2 beaten eggs. (beat eggs in a separate bowl and then pour into the potato and onion mixture.) Mix until everything is coated.
4. Add in 6 to 7 tablespoons of gluten free flour. I love using Trader Joe’s All Purpose GF Flour, but any all-purpose flour is fine (GF or not).
5. Mix it all up until the flour is coating everything.
6. Heat vegetable oil over medium in a cast-iron skillet. (Just enough is coat the pan)
7. Once oil is ready, place a small handful of potato mixture onto the pan.
8. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes per side. Sprinkle with salt when they come off the pan.
9. Serve with applesauce or Fage Greek Yogurt (I like 0% plain)
Enjoy!
xoxo
I made some salmon filets for dinner tonight and realized I had all the ingredients for a yogurt sauce. So I decided to throw together my version of a tzatziki sauce while the fish was baking in the oven!
It ended up being reallllly really easy to make and it was perfect for the salmon. If you LOVEEEE garlic, like my family does, keep the amount I used, if you don’t like fresh garlic as much, just use half the amount! Here it is:
Ingredients-
1 cup Fage Greek yogurt
1/2 cup shredded cucumber
1/4 cup of thinly sliced red onion
1 garlic clove, grated *
2 lemons (juice only)
Salt (to taste)
Dill
1. Throw everything into a medium bowl and mix! That’s it!
* I used a microplane to grate the garlic- I found that it was more like paste rather than using a grater which would make the garlic more minced…you want the garlic almost like a paste because then it mixes better and disappears in the yogurt, and you won’t get a chunk of garlic when you take a bite*
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Enjoy!
Our good family friends have a garden, and we have been getting lots of fresh, delicious vegetables from them. Tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, you name it!
So this week for dinner, I made a side dish using a large cucumber, half a red onion and shaved parmesan cheese. And that’s it. Only three ingredients- what’s better than that! Here it is:
Ingredients-
Large cucumber
Half a medium red onion
Parmesan shavings (to your liking)
Olive oil
Salt & pepper
1. Peel the skin of the cucumber ( in other dishes, I love leaving some skin on, but because we are shaving the cucumber, the skin is too tough)
2. Shave the cucumber with the peeler- I made long shavings (as you would when you shave cheese)
3. Slice the red onion very thinly, and add to the cucumber
4. Shave parmesan cheese over the cucumber and red onion
5. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle salt and freshly cracked black pepper on top
6. Toss it all together and enjoy!! It’s that simple
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