Catalan-Style Ash-Roasted Vegetables (Escalivada)

Eggplant, peppers, onions, and tomatoes slow-roasted over the dying embers of a coal fire. Sounds romantic, tastes delicious.

Escalivada Catalana (Catalan Roasted Vegetables)

Escalivada Catalana, sometimes called escalibada, is a Catalan roasted vegetable dish. It features eggplant, red peppers, onions and sometimes tomatoes.

Spanish Romesco Sauce / Dip (capsicum sauce)

Spanish Romesco Sauce, made from chargrilled capsicums, is a magic sauce that is incredibly versatile! Use it as a dip, spread, sauce, marinade, and stir into soups and stews!

Romesco Sauce

This nutty and fruity Catalonian sauce is best when you make it your own. You can serve your romesco sauce a million different ways: with roasted meats or grilled fish, with cooked or raw vegetables, on sandwiches, in soups, you name it.

Grilled Fennel and Orange Salad

Grilling fennel gives it a mellow and slightly sweet flavor, and excellent texture with a softness that still packs a nice crunch. Mixed together with orange slices, almonds, mint, and an orange vinaigrette, this is a salad that can make converts out of more than a few fennel haters out there.

Small Plates: 4 Spanish Tapas That Use Only 4 Ingredients Each

Intended as a cheap way to draw customers into drinking establishments, the most traditional tapas are easy to make, inexpensive, and go perfectly with booze. Nobody wants throwing a party to be a chore, least of all the cook. In that spirit, here are 4 simple tapas that require only 4 ingredients (aside from salt, pepper, and olive oil). They're guaranteed to get the mixers mixing and the shakers shaking.

Armenian Grilled Vegetable Salad (Khorovats Salad)

This easy Grilled Vegetable Salad (khorovats salad) is a summer staple on any Armenian picnic or cookout menu. It's the perfect side dish for grilled meats, and an ideal addition to a vegetarian meze platter.

Grilled Ratatouille

If you, too, are a sucker for grilled veggies, mix a bunch of them together with a tangy herb vinaigrette for this irresistible grilled interpretation of ratatouille.

Grilled Panzanella Salad

Charred late-summer vegetables and juicy, ripe tomatoes are tossed with a vinaigrette and hunks of grilled day-old bread, which soaks up all the fabulous juices.

Chili Roasted Pepper Salad

A variety of peppers, zucchini, and onions are rubbed with a mix of chipotle and ancho chili powders then roasted and tossed with vinegar and Cotija cheese.