Olive Oil & Garlic

As I mentioned in my last post, dry beans are a much more popular here in Spain than in the US.  Here are a few tips for preparing beans that I picked up while living here: Soak the beans over night.  I’m sure you’ve read that you can quick-soak beans by soaking them in boiling [...]

Beans are a much more common part of the Spanish diet than they are in the US, although I’ve been told though that they’re decreasing in popularity.  Spain has a huge number of varieties, as you can see from the photo above. Here’s a photo of some beans that we bought at a street market [...]

photo credit: issyeyre Garlic and olive oil go together like peanut butter and jelly.  A lot of people like to make garlic infused olive oil by putting a few garlic cloves in a bottle of oil, but as Garlicster says, that’s a good way to get botulism poisoning. Garlic flavored olive oil is easy enough to [...]