Garlic Shrimp and White Beans

This is another request from my husband. He found it on Epicurious. I’m all for anything that includes beans. They are filling and I love their texture. This recipe calls for white beans, like cannellini, but I used a combo of cannellini and Italian Romano because I love the softness of the Romano. Right from…

Lentil Soup with Vegetables

This is a very inexpensive lentil soup to make to make in the crockpot with staple ingredients and water.  I make it with extra lentils which I drain and use in salad.  Or you could eat them all with the soup.  Lentils are a very good source of fiber, folate, manganese, a good source of…

Spanish Spaghetti with Olives

You’d be amazed at the difference just adding a few simple ingredients makes to an ordinary and familiar dish. I kinda, sorta hate spaghetti because I used to make it so often when my kids were small and I was broke. That was all the time, like several nights a week. But that’s what you…

Barcelona-Style Pork

I wonder if it would surprise you to learn that Spanish food from Spain bears little to no resemblance to that which is served in most Latino restaurants. Ooh!  Did you catch that?  I said Latino. In the US most Spanish food comes from Latin American recipes, not Spain. Spain’s food is actually Mediterranean, like…

Chicken with Piquillos

This dish is a Spanish dish, as in it comes from Spain.  Much of Spain’s cuisine is Mediterranean and very much European like Italian cuisine.