Chinese Dumplings – Bulbasaurplings!

Feb24
Bulbasaur dumplings

Today we are starting our new section “Cook with Sueño José!” Sueño José, AKA Xueyu, is a Chinese student living in Sweden, who spent a few months in the lab I’m working at (exactly on the floor just below of Snitchka´s Lab). Xueyu and I became very good friends, since we share a passion for cooking and eating! We exchanged a lot of recipes during his stay, and when this web was created, he liked the idea of participating. The idea of having a Chinese PhD student, living in Sweden, cooking either Spanish or Chinese recipes, was freaky enough for us but, as usual, we have taken it a bit [...]

Paella Wars!

Dec16
Paella Star Wars

Paella is a rice dish typical of Valencia region. There are many different Paella styles, with chicken, seafood, vegetables, mixed (all of them together). The paella cooking is usually reserved for the free days, frequently on Sunday. It takes some time and some previous arrangements, and then you need to do it with enough time. The other day we made paella and when I turned around, the langoustines had started fighting like Obi Prawn Kenobi and Darth Crustacer. It’s not credible, alright, but if I tell you that I came up with this idea, and that I spent one whole hour making the costumes for the langoustines, you’ll think I’m [...]

Thistle? WTF? (A Thistle recipe)

Dec12

Thistle (AKA cardoon) is edible. Yes, I’m having a hard time believing it myself. Also, it’s easy to find (at least in Spain), they sell it bottled in the supermarket. I suppose it’s born and grows in nature, maybe it’s the typical thistle that’s cut, peeled and put into jars, who knows? When my sugar daddy said we should eat thistle I thought that he had been fired and that he was telling me nicely. But no, we had a jar at home (which I hadn’t bought, obviously). After my initial doubts I had a revelation: Lisa Simpson eats thistle in the Simpsons episode in which Homer creates Tomacco (episode [...]

Monster cake

Dec8
Monster cake

This is the cake we made to celebrate Lucías eighth birthday. Like everything freak in this web, it started out as a normal chocolate cake on which you could put eyes and teeth and transform into a Monster Cake, and this is the result. Considering I had a great time making it and that the birthday girl was delighted, I think we can say the result was pretty awesome. I took the chocolate birthday cake recipe from the blog “La receta de la felicidad” (in Spanish), with some variations. Up and atom! For the two sponge cakes: – 500 g butter – 500 g sugar – 450 g flour – [...]

FSM 2.0 Carbonara Spaghetti

Dec5
Flying Spaghetti Monster

This one is a simple recipe, after the Panda Cookies extravaganza. It’s also a good excuse to talk about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Pastafarianism. As you can see in the long version here, Pastafarianism is a religion created in opposition to the teaching of intelligent design and creationism in American public schools. Intelligent design is that thing that says that God created man in his own image. Yes, some people still believe that. In Pastafarianism the superior deity is a Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), so we can say that today’s recipe is a sort of FSM with bacon, and as we all know bacon can only make things better, [...]

Panda cookies!

Dec2
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This is a good recipe to start a blog like this one, because it’s real, but it’s also totally absurder. I was looking for something as a gift for a friend who was defending her thesis, and after putting away the idea of making chocolate bacteria (I didn’t know how to keep the flagella from breaking) I thought of her other passion: Panda bears (see, first absurder). So I looked up for “cookies panda” in Saint Google and I found this page, which doesn’t give a lot of detail, but links to, OMG, this one: yes, a japanese web, totally absurder (freaky), so I couldn’t be happier. With a little [...]