Pescetarian foodie cooks easy, healthy, tasty recipes, using high quality, seasonal ingredients
This dish is mainly about the freshness of ingredients and the dressing. Oh, that dressing!
I fell in love with the Larb salad during my trip 12 days in Vietnam Even though ground meat is usually used, we use cauliflower ´rice´ instead, making it a great vegetarian alternative. This salad is not only appealing to pick up and eat, it is full of great textures and flavours. The spicy, sharp, garlicky dressing…
A new pulses brand Cuits&Beans commissioned a group of chefs and recipe developers to design some exciting new recipes, using their cooked pulses. Pescetarian Pleasures was selected to develop 2 recipes using 2 of their main ingredients, black quinoa and kidney beans. In this recipe I decided to combine the Kidney beans with some other…
It´s that time of year again. The winter feels like it´s lasted for ages. The streets of Barcelona have been crisp and chilly, but the sun is still shining brightly. The first signs of spring are in the air (at least in my head they are)! I usually eat a lot of soups during the…
So, for my avid readers it´ll be obvious that there has been a long time of radio silence. I felt very guilty about that, but I had good reason. I had a wonderful baby some months ago. Yeahhhh! Growing a baby is a strange thing. Almost as soon as I fell pregnant I totally went…
A new pulses brand Beans&Cuits commissioned a group of chefs and recipe developers to design some exciting new recipes, using their cooked pulses. Pescetarian Pleasures was selected to develop 2 recipes using 2 of their main ingredients, black quinoa and kidney beans. This recipe is inspired by the Arab dish tabbouleh, but using quinoa instead…
The cheapest, best way to buy fish, is to buy it whole and fillet it yourself. On average 40% of the fish is thrown away, including the guts, head, skin and bones….but lots can be done with this! Buying a whole fish, encourages using the head, tail, bones and skin to harvest the full flavour. These…
Have you ever discovered a brand where their ethos really resinates with you? Let me introduce to you Kailani Iced Tea. The opening line on their website sums them up….. “Kailani was born out of a desire for a refreshing drink that does you good,but tastes great too” The idea is simple, but so well executed….
For a few days I´ve been craving a nice meaty piece of white fish. Something substantial enough to get your teeth stuck into, that is also packed full of flavour. This is a tasty, healthy, nutritious meal that doesn´t take long to prepare. It´s lean and good for you, as well as being quite light!…
Since the recipe book Soul Spices came out in November 2016, Pescetarian Pleasures has seen Anjalina Chugani everywhere! We wanted to get an insight into what made this chef such a pioneer in cooking with spice! Anjalina was born in London and moved to Bangalore at the age of 13. She travelled extensively and lived abroad…
It´s totally nuts, but it´s been 6 months since I started Pescetarian Pleasures! And what a great 6 months it´s been! I hope you can tell, I really enjoy writing the blog, now even more than ever. I wanted to thank all of my followers, I hope you have got as much out of it…
They say becoming pescetarian can seriously improve your health! Protein is essential to repair tissue all over the body….here are 9 top tips for getting enough!
Barcino Brewers began in 2011, on a rooftop in El Gòtico. It started with 3 friends, who were bored of the beers available, here in Barcelona. They brewed beers for themselves to enjoy and to supply their own bars at the time. It has grown and expanded since then and they now offer 4 different beers, named…
For me, chocolate and chilli is a great combination! I think they are 2 flavours which compliment each other nicely, and they taste great in this spiced cookie! The quantity in this recipe makes enough for around 50 cookies. So what are you waiting for, give them a try! Ingredients: 350g plain flour 150g brown…
I´m so excited still, I feel like I could fly! Saturday 4th March we held a Pescetarian Pleasures launch night at El Casal Cafe, to celebrate the start of my great food adventure! There were art installations on the night from the talented artist Lisa Rubin. She decorated the tables with a series of collages, all…
The Pavlova is a tried and tested classic; always a lovely light way to end a meal. They say this dessert comes from Australia and you can imagine, with all that heat, the last thing you crave is a big, sticky dessert. My happiest memory of Pavlova was in a small Swiss village. It was served as…
Just the colours alone are enough to make you want to make this dish. You wait until you try it! This recipe is not heavy with carbs, and is light and delicate in every sense! The Sea Bass is delicately flavoured, then the garlickey sweet potato gratin is sweetened with coconut milk. The fish and…
This post is a bit of a nod to my love of this fine fruit, the blood orange! I´m always super excited when they come into season, forgetting about how great they taste, they are just so damn good to look at! The deep crimson colour that seems to seep through to the outer peel,…
Pescetarian Pleasures met Ella and Alberto recently. They started cooking together 3 years ago, hosting food events on http://www.eatwith.com and running their own cooking workshops. They are a truly inspiring couple and we had to find out more about their journey. One thing that comes across when talking to them is how important it is for them to…
With the same family of friends we usually go away with to Vinaixa, we decided to do our own calçotada, a little closer to home. ´A calçotada, what is that?´…I hear some of you say! Well a calçot is a vegetable (think cross between a spring onion and a leek). They´re in full season here…
It´s Shrove Tuesday, an exciting time when I was young as it meant it was pancake day! Instead of the traditional crêpe, this year I wanted to make some galettes, which are the typical pancake of Brittany. Galettes are made from buckwheat flour and have a slightly heavier, more savoury flavour than a crêpe. More…
Since making Gravlax before Christmas, I´ve wanted to cure some salmon using beetroot. Other than being really pretty to look at, the salmon is much sweeter, after being cured this way. It only takes 2 days to make, but gives you a lovely piece of fish to slice up and nibble at for days! Ingredients:…
I really miss a British Fish ´n´Chip shop! When I was younger, a trip to the chippy was a weekend treat, when no one fancied cooking at home. As I hit my late teens, it became somewhere you stopped on your way home, after a night out on the town! Now that I don´t live in…
Romesco sauce originates from Tarragona, which is here in Cataluña. It is often associated with Calçots, although it was initially made to eat with fish. The nutty, sweet, garlicky flavour, with a slightly coarse texture goes really well with most fish and seafood dishes. Ingredients: 4 red peppers, sliced and roasted 500g almonds 3 garlic…
I spend a lot of my time talking about food! Whilst chatting to a good friend Dana, we got onto the topic of Creole food, as Dana is from Louisiana. I haven´t eaten much Southern (American) food, but I really wanted to make a Jambalaya. The first recorded mention of Jambalaya was in the 1870´s, a time…
Looking for the perfect pescetarian recipe to kick off your Valentine´s meal? Whether cooking for yourself, a friend or your lover, these crab cakes will go down a treat!
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Whilst chatting to my lovely friend Jimena about this recipe, she was saying it was not really an everyday dish. She wouldn´t make it because she doesn´t have Cognac at home, and certainly not caviar. If you don´t have Cognac, you can flambé with other spirits, such as rum. And if the idea of flambéing puts…
WARNING! This sauce packs some serious heat! I´ve mentioned my love of hot sauces before, in my Chipotle Salsa recipe post. I needed a spicy dipping sauce, and for once the Chipotle Salsa wasn´t going to do the job! This sauce is great for dipping spring rolls, crab cakes, or being diluted in a vinaigrette style dressing…
Bread doesn´t occur to many people when they think of fermentation, but it´s one of the most commonly eaten fermented foods. Bread is a very important food across many cultures; traditionally before people had their own ovens, the baker played a crucial role in the community. The first records which mention bread, suggest it was considered a miracle…
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