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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...