Albóndigas en salsa | Main courses | Spanish | 1 | 2h | Medium | albondigas | 300s Rome, Ancient Rome. (De recoquinaria, Apicius) | /'Meatballs in sauce'/ | 1h | False | False | False | False |
Amaretti | Desserts | Italian | 1 | 45' | Very easy | amaretti | Mid 1600s Venice, Republic of Venice. | /'From amaro or bitter'/ Amaretti are all about texture and flavor, crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside and with a slight bitterness from the almonds. Three core ingredients: almond, sugar, egg whites. | 20' | True | True | False | False |
Arroz con leche | Desserts | Spanish | 1 | 2h | Easy | arrozConLeche | 3000-250 BC, Asia. | /'Rice with milk'/ | 20' | False | True | True | False |
Homemade butter | Other | French | 1 | 20' | Very easy | butter | 8000 BC, Africa. | Italian butter culture motivated me to do it homemade. In contrast to other European countries, in Italy butter is used more as a cooking ingredient than a core element of breakfast, bread sandwiches and toasts: Italian butter stays hard too long, has almost no flavour and is always unsalted... | 20' | False | True | True | False |
Pasta alla carbonara | Main courses | Italian | 1 | 15' | Very easy | carbonara | 1800s, Italy. | /'Pasta to the coal seller'/ The name 'Pasta alla carbonara' does not appear before WWII, where it was said to come from the interaction between American troops, rations, food scarcity and Italian cooks. The dish appeared however in the 1800s in Neapolitan cuisine, using lard instead of guanciale. | 10' | True | False | False | False |
Sopa de pollo con fideos | Main courses | Spanish | 1 | 1h | Easy | chickenSoup | 1000s, China. | /'Chicken noodle soup'/ | 15' | True | False | False | False |
English curry | Main courses | English | 1 | 1h | Easy | englishCurry | Mid 1700s London, England. | The curry blend of spices as we know it was invented by British traders that brought spices from India to the British Isles. This quite mild mix adapted to the European palate coupled with the use of flour took away the Indian soul of the dish, but produced an interesting result nevertheless. | 30' | False | True | False | False |
Estofado | Main courses | Spanish | 0 | 2h | Easy | estofado | 300s Rome, Ancient Rome. (De recoquinaria, Apicius) | /'Meatballs in sauce'/ | 1h | True | False | False | False |
Garbanzada canaria | Main courses | Canarian | 0 | 20' | Easy | garbanzada | -, Canary Islands. | /'Canarian chickpeas'/ | 20' | True | False | True | True |
Gofio escaldado | Other | Canarian | 0 | 20' | Very easy | gofioEscaldado | -, Canary Islands. | /'Blanched toasted flour'/ | 20' | True | False | True | True |
Eastern Roman honey fritters | Main courses | Byzantine | 0 | 20' | Easy | honeyFritters | -, Canary Islands. | /'Canarian chickpeas'/ | 20' | True | False | True | True |
Homemade jam/jelly | Other | Latin | 1 | 30' | Very easy | jam | 300s Rome, Ancient Rome. (De recoquinaria, Apicius) | In Lanzarote we have the best black mulberries I've ever tasted. Unfortunately, I only get the chance to have some in June-July, which prompted me to make jam (and start with the strawberry one) and enjoy them longer. This recipe is not too sweet nor it needs any artificial source for pectin. | 10' | False | True | True | False |
Mango lassi | Drinks | North Indian | 1 | 1h | Very easy | mangolassi | 1000 BC, Punjab. | /'Mango flavoured yogurt with water'/ | 3' | False | True | True | False |
Mimos or Suspiros de Moya | Desserts | Canarian | 1 | 1h 10' | Very easy | mimos | 1900s Moya, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. | /'Mimes or Moya's sighs'/ | 10' | True | True | False | False |
Not so bitter! Using a moka | Other | Italian | 1 | 3' | Very easy | mokacoffee | 1933 Piedmont, Italy. (Alfonso Bialetti) | Brewing coffee on a moka is easy, everybody does it. Everybody seems to be, however, used to the burnt and bitter flavour. This recipe explains how I do it for the tiramisù since I'm not used to coffee and I really notice the bitterness otherwise. Being less bitter makes it drinkable with less sugar too. The moka is a relatively new invention, in the name of a city in Yemen renowned for its coffee: Mocha. | 3' | True | True | True | True |
Ova spongia ex lacte | Main courses | Latin | 0 | 20' | Easy | ovaSpongiaExLacte | -, Canary Islands. | /'Canarian chickpeas'/ | 20' | True | False | True | True |
Pancakes | Desserts | Latin | 1 | 15' | Very easy | pancakes | 500 BC, Ancient Greece. | | 15' | False | False | True | False |
Panna cotta | Desserts | Italian | 1 | 3h 10' | Very easy | pannaCotta | 1800-1900s Piedmont, Italy. | /'Cooked cream'/ Missing homemade photo! | 10' | False | True | False | False |
Pella de gofio | Desserts | Canarian | 1 | 5' | Very easy | pellaGofio | Before 1400s, Canary Islands. | /'Ball of toasted flour'/ This dessert, like gofio, comes from the amazigh tribes that inhabited the Canary Islands before the colonization. It's traditionally used to complement meals. | 5' | True | False | True | True |
Pesto Genovese | Main courses | Italian | 1 | 8h 30' | Very easy | pestoGenovese | 1852 Genoa, Italy. (Emanuele Rossi) | /'Genoese grounded paste'/ Although the first written recipe dates to 1852, very similar dishes can be found dating back to Roman times, but closer enactments were more prevalent in the Liguria region. | 15' | False | False | True | False |
Pollo a la cerveza | Desserts | Spanish | 0 | 1h | Easy | polloCerveza | - | /'Chicken with beer'/ | 20' | True | True | False | False |
Potaje canario | Main courses | Canarian | 0 | 20' | Easy | potajeCanario | -, Canary Islands. | /'Canarian pottage'/ | 20' | True | False | True | True |
Puchero canario | Main courses | Canarian | 1 | 2h | Easy | pucheroCanario | 1500s, Canary Islands. | /'Canarian earthenware cooked dish'/ Not really cooked on earthenware anymore! It's one of my favourite dishes. This recipe forces you to have a pressure cooker, but you can try just cooking for 3 times longer with a normal pot. You will also have to add the chickpeas and potatoes later or they will crumble to bits. | 35' | True | True | False | False |
Crema de calabaza y zanahoria | Main courses | Spanish | 1 | 45' | Easy | pumpkinCarrotSoup | - | /'Pumpkin and carrot soup'/ | 15' | True | True | False | False |
Ragù alla bolognese | Main courses | Italian | 1 | 7h | Medium | raguBolognese | Late 1800s, Italy. | /'Bolognese (meat) sauce'/ | 1h | False | False | False | False |
Shortbread cookies | Desserts | Scottish | 1 | 45' | Very easy | shortbreadCookies | 13th century, Scotland | | 10' | False | False | False | False |
Sopa de puchero | Main courses | Canarian | 1 | 30' | Very easy | sopaPuchero | 1500s, Canary Islands. | /'Soup from puchero'/ The logical conclusion to every puchero, making soup from it. | 10' | True | True | False | False |
Tartaletas dulces | Desserts | Spanish | 1 | 2h | Medium | tartaletas | Medieval western Europe, France-England | /'Sweet tartlets'/ Bite-sized pastries, filled with a variety of ingredients and open on top. Though first seen in older times, sweet tartlets came to popularity with the spread of sugar in medieval Europe | 45' | False | False | False | False |
Tiramisù | Desserts | Italian | 1 | 8h 30' | Easy | tiramisu | 1960-70s Treviso, Italy. | /'Pick me up'/ The tiramisù is an Italian dessert that combines dry biscuits soaked in coffee with a mascarpone cheese and egg cream, and a note of bitter cocoa on top. It's one of the world's most famous desserts, and with reason; it's both extremely simple to make and delicious. | 30' | False | False | True | False |
Pasta al pomodoro | Main courses | Italian | 1 | 15' | Very easy | tomatoPasta | 1800-30s Naples, country of Naples / the Two Sicilies. | /'Tomato pasta'/ This simple dish product of the Columbian exchange wasn't common in Europe until the late 1800s. Though tomatoes were present in the continent for a while, cooks and doctors alike were aware of the poisonous nature of nightshades which is why it took so long for Europeans to enjoy them like we do today. | 15' | True | False | True | True |
Torrijas | Desserts | Latin | 1 | 15' | Very easy | torrijas | 300s Rome, Ancient Rome. (De recoquinaria, Apicius) | /'Drunkenness'/ Also known as French toast (though in Spain we do not use sandwich bread), it's a simple breakfast or dessert with origins in ancient Rome. | 15' | False | False | False | False |
Truchas | Desserts | Canarian | 0 | 20' | Easy | truchas | -, Canary Islands. | /'Trout, though it's not a fish'/ | 20' | True | False | True | True |