I knew people use cayenne pepper to season food and drank the "master cleanse" with the herb in it, but I often forget that cayenne pepper helps with circulation and apparently it can help stop bleeding! Who knew! I only knew of raw honey being safe to put on cuts but now we've got another one!
I've added English subtitles to a video for the calçots sauce recipe.
Calçots sauce (in Catalan called "salsa de calçots") is one of the variants of the sauce called "salvitxada". It's one of the most popular sauces of Catalan cuisine, which we eat with meat, fish, vegetables and salads (or even just to dip bread 🤭). In the particular case of "salsa de calçots", it's when it's made to go with calçots (long sweeter spring onions cooked by roasting them on embers).
Personally, I love this sauce. Each family makes it a bit different, with a slightly different amount of each ingredient, and some may add a little bit of toasted bread and a little bit of parsley to the mix. So don't worry if you would rather change the quantities a little bit (but not too much, you don't want this to be a tomato sauce, for example).
The meal I’ve been waiting for the whole year! Well, I always make this spaghetti, but not with stuff from my own garden! Today, I finally had enough ripe and semi-ripened cherry tomatoes to make a serving. I also used one of my garlic heads, which, by the way, are curing nicely. I even managed to pull oregano, thyme, and a bit of basil. Sadly, the onions are not yet ready, so I used a store-bought one. The basil that I managed to harvest is not enough, so I had to use dried basil from the shelf. It’s such an easy, quick, and wholesome lunch. I think my non-existing Italian ancestors would approve.
17-Aug-2023