Cooking the Spanish Way Author:Elsa Behrens If you enjoy food you will enjoy Spanish cooking. In Spain the daily meal is a real occasion - a time for conversation, laughter, a family reunion and above all a time for savouring the pleasures of good eating. — This book will conjure up memories of Spain for those who have been there - and if you have not, you will find it a real adventure to ... more »try cooking in the Spanish way. Colorful and varied, Spanish food is daring in it's mixture of unusial ingredients. You will find it full of flavor snd imagination and with the help of Elsa Behrens you can bring a whole battery of new ideas to your own home cooking
Take for example the famous Spanish paella. This rice dish can range from the most exotic meal garnished with chicken and every kind of sea food to being simply a delicious means of using up scraps of food of every description. For the Spanish realise that rice enhances the taste of the food and spices with which it is cooked. Try making Spanish rice next time you have left-overs.
You wil find also succulent meat dishes - stews and casseroles transformed by the addition of a few herbs and a glass of wine; egg recipes including, of course, easy-to-make Spanish omelettes; soups that are different; vegetable dishes; delicious sweets; a variety of Spanish sauces with their exquisite, mysterious flavours which can make all the difference to a simple meal.« less