Our Philosophy:

 

"We believe that the most important ingredients to good food are: love, dedication, creativity, happiness, generosity and olive oil.....;)"

We realize the importance of good, healthy and tasteful food while you stay with us and offer delicious dishes for our guests. The meals we offer are prepared with fresh, seasonal, and, for the most part, locally grown, produce. The meals we prepare can be characterized as “ Meditaranean-Asian Fusion”: we offer Spanish, Catalan and Italian, Greek and Moroccan, Indian and Indonesian dishes. We offer vegetarian as well as dishes with fish or meat.

We only use fresh ingredients and everything is prepared on the spot, using olive oil (if possible from our own olive trees) and fresh spices. We buy at the local markets preferably from local vendors.

We have a small vegetable garden so you might eat our own tomatoes, wild spinach, lettuces or peppers. In addition we have organic almond, cherry, apple, nisperos, kaki, plum and lemon trees, in addition to 3 hectares of vineyards. We make our own chutneys out of nisperos and grapes. Bottle our cherries so they last over the winter, roast our almonds and make marmelades that our guests can buy.

Your cherry crumble cake even in winter will have our own cherries in them,

and our almond cakes will have our own grated almonds. We pick rosemary and

thyme in the hills behind the house and have mint, basil, salvia, oregano and other

aromatic plants in our gardens. Lavender from our garden you might find in little

bags in your pillows or in our home made massage oils or soaps which are also

for sale for our clients.

 

Our cook was inspired by his travels around the

Mediterranean and Brasil. His passion is to cook simple tasteful healthy meals prepared all

freshly and homemade with local spices and ingredients. Some of his favourite

plates include risotto with vegetables of the season, aubergines parmazan style,

green lasagnes, home made pastas, chicken breast with cava, red peper marmelades

with fresh cheese, beef “estofado” with red wine, paellas, and fish and seafood dishes

in white wine.

 

Some examples of our vegetarian menu items:

 

Warm dishes:

• cream soups with vegetables from the season

• risottos

• ratatouille

• caramelized carrots

• spinach with almonds and raisins

• roasted potatoes with rosemary

• vegetable pies (‘polpettone stile ligure’)

• courgettes with oregano

• pastel de pasta vegetariano (con velouté)

• “berenjenas a la parmesana”

• cous cous with pesto of celery

• bulgur with roasted vegetables

• rice croquettes

• quiches

• pizza

• focaccia with aromatic spices

• rice with curry and tofu

• vegetarian burgers

• glazed onions with raisins

 

Cold dishes:

• gazpachos of different types

• rice salads

• green salad with red beets and mostard dressing

• tomatoes with oregano

• pasta salads

• vegan mayonaise

• bean salads

• green salad with gomasio

• salad of porotos mung beans with red beets

• vegetable pates

 

Deserts:

• chocolate cake

• lemon mouse

• cherries in sirope

• bizcocho de cacao

• “panecitos”

• crema pastelera

• crumble pies with cherries or apple

• lemon cake

• chocolate mouse

• icecream with warm cherries

 

Our home made (ice) teas include:

• Ellen´s Energizer: Fresh ginger-lemon with honey

• *Maria´s secret: Maria Luisa from our garden with some secret spices

• Masia Mint: Mint-lemon from our garden

• Green Delight: green tea and mint with a dash of lemon

• Minty Morocan but not with as much sugar as the Moroccans add.... ;)

• Indian Chais

Our home freshly made juices (4 euros ) include:

• Orange Delight: carrot-ginger-apple

• Grape Gossip: grapes, apple, mint

• Red Rooster: beet roots, red pepper and celery

• and others - depending on season