Easter

March 29, 2021

Pestiños, an Andalusian Lent and Easter treat

Natacha Sanz Caballero Desserts and Sweets coffee time, Cuaresma, Easter, Easter in Spain, Lent, platos de cuaresma, Spanish cuisine, Spanish dessert, teatime

With the end of the season of Lent and the beginning of that of Easter, I bring you a Spanish treat typical of this season, pestiños. Don’t ask me to translate it, because I would have a hard time doing it. You’ll have to call it by its original name, and I will help you pronounce it: pehs-teen-yohs.

Holy Week processions in Sevilla. Holy Wednesday, Hermandad del Baratillo – Brotherhood of Baratillo

The season calls for Lent and Easter meals, with meatless, savory ones enjoyed on Fridays and sweet ones (many of them) enjoyed on Easter, when traditionally lenten promises and (more…)

April 11, 2016

Sugar and Cinnamon Baked Milk Sweet Bread, Oven Baked Torrijas de Mona de Pascua

Natacha Sanz Caballero Breads, Desserts and Sweets afternoon snack, breakfast, Easter, easter sweet bread, fried milk, fried milk bread, Holy Week, mona de pascua, sweet bread, torrijas

If you read my previous post, with the recipe for Monas de Pascua , Easter Sweet Bread, you’ll remember I mentioned that the Easter sweet bread will last for a couple of days, pretty much like with any bread. And like it happens with bread that is not fresh, you’ll either have to toast it and eat it with jam and butter or your (more…)