Basque-style baby eels
Basque-style baby eels served in an earthenware dish Recipe Basque-style baby eels For many Basque families, like ours, baby eels must be part of the Christmas Eve menu Ingredients for 4 people: 400 g of baby eels 3 cloves of garlic 1 dried chilli pepper Extra virgin olive oil Peel the garlic and cut into slices. Do the same with the dried chilli. Heat a cast iron frying pan with a little oil, adding the garlic and chilli. When the garlic begins to brown slightly, add…
23/11/2023
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Santo Tomás Festival
people shopping at the Santo Tomás Festival stalls Euskadi Gastronomika Santo Tomás Festival The day of Santo Tomás, a day in which the rural atmosphere reigns, marks the beginning of Christmas. It is celebrated in many towns throughout the Basque Country, although the most popular places are San Sebastian, Bilbao, Azpeitia, Lekeitio, Errenteria, Irun, Hondarribia, Usurbil and Arrasate/Mondragón. When is Santo Tomás celebrated? Traditionally, most towns and cities such as Bilbao…
23/11/2023
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Recipe: Baby leeks with pumpkin mash
Leeks have a reputation for being tasteless and bland, but in this recipe we vindicate them and make the most of their flavour. As a luxury side dish, roasted pumpkin, which adds sweetness to the dish Probably one of the best and most useful skills a person can acquire in the kitchen, whether at home or professionally, is the ability to elevate a simple ingredient to a higher level, making the most of its flavour, playing with its texture and presenting it in well-combined…
31/10/2023
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The bean festival is back in Tolosa
Beans, "cuadrillas" and "trikitilaris" will take to the streets of Tolosa on 15th November to celebrate the Basque festival We are looking forward to it, and no wonder. After two years without being able to celebrate one of the town's big days, Tolosa is getting ready for the traditional bean competition, the popular 'alubiadas' and the 'Euskal Jaia' atmosphere to which we are accustomed. For several years now, the Day of the Bean has been celebrated to the rhythm of the Euskal…
31/10/2023
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The Charm of the Irati Forest
A walk through the Irati Forest Visiting the Irati Forest, located in the heart of the eastern Pyrenees of Navarre, in the headwaters of the Aezkoa and Salazar valleys, is a pleasure at any time of the year. However, doing so in the fall becomes a true gift for the senses: forests covered in fallen leaves and centuries-old beech trees that paint the landscape in shades of ochre and yellow. It's a time when the second-largest beech and fir forest in Europe, after Germany's Black Forest,…
28/09/2023
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