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Monday, September 29, 2014

Two-Chocolate Cookies

Hello everyone!

Today's recipe comes, once again, from The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook



These amazing chocolate cookies are amazingly chewy, almost brownie-like, melting in your tongue at the first bite.


Seriously, you must try them!


Although the recipe calls for only chopped chocolate, I used a mix of chopped chocolate and chocolate chips. Also, it was supposed to yield 12 cookies but the balls of dough I made were unequal and, therefore, I got more than 25 of them.


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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Summer Pies: Sweet Cherry Pie + "La Boqueria" Market

Hello everyone!

 I've decided to end my "Summer Pies" series with a visit to a very famous market in my city. The "Mercat de la Boqueria".

It is located in "La Rambla", and nowadays is always bursting with tourists. What used to be a typical market place, for the local people to go and buy the groceries, has transformed into a must-see place in Barcelona.

 Not that I'm complaining, you can buy a freshly made juice of any combination imaginable while you take a stroll inside the market.


There are still lots of traditional shops where you can buy fresh fruit, meat and fish; run by people who had been in the business for their whole lives, whose shops were owned by their parents, and their grandparents before them.

Most of them are specialized shops and, if there is a special ingredient that you can't seem to find anywere, you can probably find it in "La Boqueria".



So, one Saturday morning I woke up early -to avoid the crowds- and walked to the market without any recipe in mind, hoping to find something to inspire me. And I ended up buying a kilogram of sweet cherries for a cherry pie, which, strangely enough, I had never made.


 I suppose that the heat in Barcelona was not in my favor while preparing the pie crust, since it took quite a lot of fridge time for me to coax it into something manageable. It turned out a little bit sloppy, although I prefer to say that it's rustic ;)


I must say that this is a very intense pie. If you really like cherries and love bold flavors, this is for you. I would recommend to serve it with a big dollop of vanilla ice cream, in order to balance out the flavors.

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