Month: November 2019

The Mallorcan ensaimada and its distant cousin, the Filipino ensaymada
anecdotes

The Mallorcan ensaimada and its distant cousin, the Filipino ensaymada

The Mallorcan ensaimada is one of the most iconic products of Mallorcan cuisine. What many people do not realise is that, more than 11,000 kilometres away, in the Philippines, there…

The Mallorcan vegetable pie
Gastronomy

Recipe of the Mallorcan vegetable pie

My mother’s recipe of the Mallorcan vegetable pie is laborious because it involves a variety of vegetables, but it’s simple to make. A main ingredient of this vegetable cake is…

Turrón de
Gastronomy

Monastery nougat

When I think of Christmas, my first association is sweets, and especially monastery nougat. Maybe it’s very simple, but that’s what being greedy is all about. The Christmas lighting is…

The origin of sobrasada
Gastronomy

The origin of sobrasada

Nowadays sobrasada is something very close to us, especially to the Mallorcans who in many cases have made it at home. But few know what is the origin of sobrasada,…

Dijous Bo de
Festivals and events

Dijous Bo, the Inca Fair

If I mention the word Inca, to you, possibly the relationship in some way with Peru. But in this case it is not like that, because we are going to…

Pirate attacks in Mallorca and the deffence towers
History

Pirate attacks in Mallorca and the defence towers

The pirates I remember that when I was a lad, I was fascinated by pirate films. Long before that, in 16th- or 17th-century Mallorca, there was no television or cinema,…