Chicken rolls
preparation time: 30 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
300 gr. thin sliced chicken filets
tooth pegs
stuffing:
Or: ham, bacon and cheese finely chopped
Or: vegetarian: nuts, hard boiled egg, herbs, breadcrumbs, tomato, finely chopped and mashed to a paste. Put the stuffing on the chicken filet and roll up, fix with tooth peg and fry in hot oil.

My grandmothers croquettes
preparation time: 30 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
250 gr. beef or calf in small pieces
small chopped onion
salt and pepper, mace, finely chopped parsley
flour and butter for roux
bread crumbs
beated egg
frying oil

Bring the meat to a boil in some water, add salt and pepper, bay leave and onion, untill meat is soft. Make a roux with butter and flour and the stock. Add salt and pepper, mace and parsley. Let cool. Cut the meat very small and stir through tthe roux. Let cool in the fridge. Model the croquettes with two spoons. Roll through bread crumbs, beated egg and again through breadcrumbs. Fry in hot frying oil.

Caviar Andaluz
preparation time: 15 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
½ kilo black olives witout stones
100 gr. grated almonds
5 cloves of garlic
olive oil
cayenne pepper
aromatic fresh herbs, thyme, rosemary basil
salt, lemon juice

Mix everything, except almonds, in a blenderand purée into a smooth paste, add finally almond powder. Serve on toast

Pesto Alpujarreño
preparation time: 20 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
250 gr. of parsley
100gt. oregano
100 gr. chives
1/2 water glass of olive oil
10 cloves of garlic
cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon of sugar
200 gr. roasted chestnut grated
250 gr. grated cheese

Mix well, add one or the other ingredient when it is to dry or to wet.

Stuffed pepper
preparation time: 5 minutes
cooking time: 30 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
green long peppers
cream cheese
fresh herbs, like thyme, parsley bit oof sage leaves
tomato sauce (home made or from a tin)
grated cheese

stuff the peppers with the cream cheese mixed with fresh herbs and cover with the tomato sauce and grated cheese. Cook in the oven for 20 minutes at medium heat untill chees is melted  and golden brown.

Onion apple cream
preparation time: 10 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
2 peeled and grated sweetsour apples
1 middel onion finely chopped
250 gr. Margarine
20 gr, almonds or hazelnuts chopped
1 tbls mustard
salt, pepper  and sweet red pepper powder

Mix onion with part of soft margarine, add apple mustard and nuts and rest of margarine together and mix well. serve on toast

Stuffed and sliced calamar
preparation time: 20 minutes
cooking time: 30 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
4 squid mantles, washed and dried,
For the stuffing:
breadcrumbs,
2 eggs,
3 tblsp. of cream,
salt and pepper,
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped,
1 tomato, sliced in little dices,
a handful of parsley, finely cut,
olive oil.

Make the stuffing: Beat the eggs with cream, salt, pepper, garlic, tomato, parsley. Add as much breadcrumbs untill the stuffing is a thik past. Fill the mantles with a teaspoon, or use your hands. Put them together in an oven dish, sprinkle olive oil over them. Cover the dish. Slide in a pre-heated oven on 180 Cº (390 Fº) for approx. 25 minutes. Cool down and cut the squid in 1,5 cm. (1/2 inch) thick slices. Sprinkle some hot pepper sauce over them and more parsley. Serve on coctail sticks.

Pepper pancake
preparation time: 15 minutes
cooking time: 30 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
100 gr. (4 oz) of small diced bacon,
2 chopped garlic cloves,
1 red or green pepper cut in little dices,
100 gr. (4 oz) of self-raising flower,
3 eggs,
2 dcl. (1/2 pint) of cold milk,
salt and pepper,
100 gr. (4 oz) of parmesan cheese.

Seave the flower in a bowl, add eggs, milk and salt and pepper. Beat to a smooth pancake batter. Grease a baking tin with 12 or 16 moulds and divide the bacon, pepper and garlic equally on the bottom. Pour the batter on top in the moulds and slide in a pre-heated oven bake for 30 minutes on 170 Cº (360 Fº), until risen and golden brown. Serve in the middle of a Nasturtium leaf.

Asparagus pâté
preparation time: 15 minutes
cooking time: 45 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
1 jar of white asparagus,
4 eggs,
1 tin of evaporated milk (not sweeted)
nutmeg,
salt and pepper,
breadcrumbs.

Leak out the asparagus and purée with eggs, milk, nutmeg, salt and pepper in a liquidiser. Grease a baking tin for cake with butter and shake breadcrumbs around. Pour the asparagus batter in the tin. Bake for 45 minutes on 160 Cº (350 Fº) in a pre-heated oven. Cool down and slide the pâté on a plate. Top with Spanish mayonnaise and red Pepper sauce.

Spanish Mayonnaise made without eggs.
preparation time: 4 minutes
cooking time: none
makes: 4

Ingredients:
1 small glass of milk,
2 small glasses of sunflower oil,
a few drips of lemon juice,
garlic from the press,
salt + pepper.

Pour all ingredients in a bowl and whip with a hand blender. It sets at once into a white cream, if not pour in a little bit more of oil. Season with chives or parsley if necessary. Also nice to serve as your top dip with any dish

Red pepper sauce
preparation time: 15 minutes
cooking time: none
makes: 4

Ingredients:
1 red pepper,
A few drips of balsamico vinegar and lemon juice.
some drips of tabasco to your taste,

Grill the pepper in the oven untill the skin is black. Put in a plastic bag for 5 minutes and de-skin the pepper. Purée all the ingredients in a liquidiser, add some red wine or tomato ketchup to get it slightly thinner. But mind the red colour. Do not add milk, it gets pink!

Viña y Rosales goats-cheese
preparation time: 15 minutes
cooking time: none
makes: 4

Ingredients:
2 litre (3,5 pint) of goatsmilk,
juice of 1 lemon,
a lot of finely cut chives
1 clove of pressed garlic.
a pinch of salt

Bring the milk to the boil, turn off the heat, let it cool down for half an hour. When the milk is about 60 Cº (140 Fº) pour in the lemon juice and heat again untill the milk curdles. Add garlic, salt and chives. Put a damp linen cloth in a sieve that hangs above a bucket. Pour the curdled milk in the sieve. Let the wey drip out the cheese for approximately 24 hours. This wey can be used as a refreshing drinkor in soups. Also my dogs love it. Spoon the thick cheese from the cloth in a bowl or on a plate. Serve the next few days, on toast or as a topping on salads. When you leave out the garlic and chives this cheese can be used as quark in sweat desserts.

Baconed dates
preparation time: 10 minutes
cooking time: 1/2 a minute
makes: 4

Ingredients:
16 dates without stones,
250 gr. (1/2 a pound) of very thin sliced bacon.

Roll the dates in the bacon and fixate them with a cocktail stick. Put a kitchen paper on a plate whereon the baconed dates, slide them in the microwave for 30 sec.at 500 Watt. Serve hot, but watch it, the date is very hot to the mouth.

Grilled mussels
preparation time: 10 minutes
cooking time: 15 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
1 kilo (2 pounds) of fresh mussels,
1 glass of white wine,
1 glass of water,
1 stick of celery, sliced,
1/2 an onion, sliced,
1 carrot, sliced,
salt and pepper,
125 gr. (5 oz) of butter,
2 hands of finely cut parsley,
2 garlic colves from the press.

Wash and clean the mussels, throw the opened and broken ones away. Bring to a quick boil in the wine and water together with the vegetables. Boil for 5 minutes. Let it cool down. Open each mussel and throw one shell away. Make the garlic butter. Let the butter soften to room temperature outside the fridge. Mash garlic and parsley through it. Refrigerate again. Give every mussel a teaspoon of garlic-parsley butter. Put for 8 minutes under the grill. Serve hot!

Fan like sliced potato
preparation time: 15 minutes
cooking time: 50 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
4 medium sized potatoes,
4 garlic cloves thinley sliced,
8 pieces of dried tomato,
8 slices of cheese,
100 gr. (4 oz) of butter,
salt and pepper,
1 glass of white wine.

Make with a sharp knife thin slices in the potato, but not complete the should be together on one end. Push the slices somewhat apart with your thumbs, like a fan. Between the slices of each potatoe you put 2 slices of cheese, the slices of 1 garlic clove, 2 pieces of dried tomato. Place them together in an oven dish, put several pats of butter, the salt and pepper on them. Pour the wine on the bottom. Cover the dish. Slide the dish in a pre-heated oven at 180 Cº (390 Fº) untill the potatoes are tender. Serve on lettuce leaves, sprinkled with chopped parsley.

Guaca-haba
preparation time: 10 minutes
cooking time: 15 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
the last and biggest broad-beans of the season,
a sprig of a summer-savory,
1 small spring-onion,
some cream,
some lemon juice,
salt and pepper,
a clove of garlic,
optional blue cheese, like Bleu d' Auvergne.

Boil the broadbeans with the savory until tender for 5 to 10 minutes. Remove the thick scales. Put them together with the other ingredients in a liquidiser or foodprocessor. Serve on toasted bread or cream-crackers.

Nettle quiche
preparation time: 30 minutes
cooking time: 45 minutes
makes: 4

Ingredients:
Use a mould of 22-24 cm.
For the crustpie:
200 gr. (7 oz) of flour,
a pinch of salt,
100 gr. (4 oz) of cold butter,
2 to 3 tblsp. of cold water,
mustard.

Mix the sieved flour with a pinch of salt in a bowl. Cut with 2 knives the butter in pieces through the flour. Add water and mould this to a ball. Rest the dough in plastic foil in the fridge for 30 minutes. Grease the form. Roll the dough to a round thin circle slightly bigger than the form. Put the dough in the form and leave it hanging over the edges. Prick the dough with a tooth peg. Grease the bottom with some mustard.

For the filling:
butter or oil,
150 gr.(6 oz) of sliced bacon,
1/4 liter (1/2 a pint) of sour cream or quark,
salt and pepper,
2 handfull of young nettle tops,
4 eggs.

Blanche the nettle tops in boiling water for 1 minute to get rid of the prickling. Fry the bacon in the butter or oil. Keep the grease apart. Put the bacon on the bottom of the dough. Mix the sour cream or quark, with the nettle tops and spread over the bacon dices. Beat the bacon grease and the eggs with some salt and pepper. Use some of the egg to anoint the edges of the dough, pour the rest over the nettle-cream mixture. Bake in a pre-heated oven up to 45 minutes untill golden brown at 200 Cº (425 Fº).