Grandma Libia's croquetas by Guest of winter

Traditional children's fare and a delectable tapa

Super Fast Fried Cheese Appetizer - Saganaki by Amos Miller

If you have a cast iron skillet, you can make a simple, delicious appetizer - fast! A cheese lover's delight! The Greeks call it 'saganaki' and you can use several different semi-firm cheeses to make this delicious and interesting treat in less than 15 minutes. The best cheeses to use are kefaloteri or kaseri, so try to obtain a…

Tortillas de camarones or shrimp tortillas by Guest of winter

Tortillas de camarones from Andalusia are made with a tiny type of shrimp called camarón and chickpea flour and are typical of the Cádiz province. They are delicious with a glass of chilled fino or manzanilla, on a bar terrace...

Panizas or chickpea fritters by Guest of winter

Panizas are typical from the Cádiz province in Andalusia, where the Sherry wines come from. They are made from chickpea flour, boiled in water, made into a dough thicker than potato mash, then sliced in small pieces and fried. They look suspiciously similar to Provençal panisses, and I heard there is a very similar thing in the south…

Polenta Squares with Gorgonzola - Crostoni al Gorgonzola by Evelyn Scott

Fried polenta is a great treat, a snacking food of the sort one can go to a friggitoria and buy a cone of -- the frier takes a sheet of yellow butcher's paper, rolls it into a cone, and fills it with squares of polenta. But polenta is also a nice accompaniment to other fried foods at table, and is a perfect base for toppings of…

Fried Cheese by Jennifer Bass

Morcilla beignets by Guest of winter

Morcilla is a typical Spanish soft sausage made with onion, rice, pork lard, pork blood, salt and quite some spices such as pimentón, pepper, origan, cumin and aniseed in varying amounts. When paired with pork meat and made into beignets with a crispy batter outside it makes a truly delicious tapa.

Soldaditos de Pavía or codfish beignets by Guest of winter

Soldaditos de Pavía, meaning Pavía soldiers, are strips of desalted codfish, marinated in a mixture of lemon juice and Spanish sweet pimentón, then either coated first in flour then in egg, or in a frying batter, deep-fried in olive oil and served with a strip of roasted red pepper around them

ham cheese and chicken sausage roll by sunil k.nayar

easy to make

Fried cauliflower. by Helenscooking

You know that I love cauliflower, I had the whole day dedicated to cauliflower in my ***good food*** section on Helen’s Cooking Facebook fan page. Cauliflower is very nutritious, easy to work with and Surprise! Surprise! It’s delicious. This is a signature recipe of my Mom, she cooks cauliflower this way very often. When I was a kid…

potato n cheddar cheese croquette by sunil k.nayar

with mash potato and cheddar cheese this snacks will do wonders.

Ricotta-filled Cannoli by Nazzareno Casha

Italian Style Nacho Recipe So Simple! by curt iffert

So Easy it only takes 10 to 15 minutes to make!

Fried Mozzarella Balls With Homemade Tomato Sauce by Jenny

A week or so back I had a chance to taste fried mozzarella balls with tomato sauce. These were served to us alongside with some other deep fried appetizers. The mozzarella balls were absolutely divine and I knew back then that I would be trying to copy them and get as close to the delicious flavours as possible. I haven’t even done…

Zucchini Parmesan Fritters With Sour Cream by Doctor Jo

Zucchini Parmesan Fritters are a delicious way to use up an over-abundance of zucchini and summer squash. These fritters are crispy on the outside. A dollop of sour cream perfectly compliments them.