Mykitcheninspain

 Your guests will love these eggs stuffed with chopped shrimp.If you’re having a backyard party or you’re off to a community potluck, stuffed eggs are the answer. In any form, they are real crowd-pleasers. I like them, too, as a simple lunch dish, served with chilled gazpacho in a glass.The Spanish rendition of huevos rellenos (stuffed eggs), once a typical selection in tap...

 I’m in a cabbage state of mind. With a plenitude of cabbages from the garden, I have been searching my files for cabbage recipes. With only one or two people to feed, a single cabbage goes a long way—half a head makes a veggie main dish for one meal, coleslaw with another quarter, an addition to Asian stir-fry for the rest. I even pulled out The Joy of Cooking in search of...

 Rosquillas de San Isidro--ring cookies for the saint's day.Did you pay homage to San Isidro yesterday (May 15)? Patron saint of Madrid, San Isidro is the cause for a week’s celebration in the city, with deliciously old-fashioned customs such as donning the traditional puffy-sleeved chulapa dress with a pair of red carnations tucked in your kerchiefed head (or for the gentl...

 Photo La Voz de CádizThe almadraba season is underway! The first glistening tunas, Atlantic bluefins, have been pulled from the waters on the Atlantic coast leading into the Straits of Gibraltar. The almadraba is a very ancient way of fishing tuna. The Phoenicians, who colonized southern Spain more than 3000 years ago, devised a system of capturing the tuna as they mi...