Spanish home cooking · from Sueca, Valencia
130 Spanish recipes, tips and tricks, cooked the old way
The food Spanish families cook at home, written down for an American kitchen. Exact measures in cups, pounds and °F, the reason under every step, and something to look for beside every timing.
By Amparo Ferrer · Free sample
Amparo explains the book in about two minutes. Captions are on; switch them off with the CC button.
From Amparo's kitchen
In the video, Amparo walks you through the book: how a recipe page works, what the words in blue mean, and which dish to cook first. The same voice you hear on the channel.
How you get it
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The PDF, with the designed pages and a printable card for every recipe, and the EPUB for a phone or an e-reader.
The files are yours to keep. Print the recipe cards you cook most and keep them by the stove.
How a recipe reads
Your stove, your pan and your tomatoes are not Amparo's. So every timing in the book comes with something you can see, smell or feel, printed in blue. Under the steps that need it, a short Why tells you the reason, so you can fix the dish yourself.
Tortilla de patatas · step 2
2Put the oil in the wide pan over low heat and add the potatoes. The oil should barely move. Cook for about 20 minutes. If you are using the onion, add it 10 minutes after the potatoes. They are ready when the tip of a knife goes into a slice like soft butter, with nothing pushing back. If it catches, give them 5 more minutes. Nothing should brown.
WhyIn hot oil the outside of the potato hardens before the inside is soft, and a potato with a crust will not drink the egg. The potato takes a bath, not a beating.
Look inside
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What is in the book
The pictures of finished dishes are illustrations. Yours may look different.
Free sample
21 pages from the book: how it works, the pantry with its US swaps, the potato omelette, the lentils with chorizo, the food-safety sheet and the last page. A PDF, free.
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The book
By Amparo Ferrer · First edition, October 2026
Sold through Gumroad. A one-time purchase of two files. 7-day refund: if the book is not right for you, ask within 7 days of buying and get your money back.
Who is cooking
I am from Sueca, a rice town south of Valencia. In my mother's kitchen the paella pan hung on a nail by the back door. She cooked by eye, by ear and by smell. You and I will do it with a measuring cup, a timer and a few words on the page that tell you what to look for.
Amparo
Amparo is a character created for the YouTube channel @CooktheSpanishWay. The recipes in the book were compiled from published Spanish recipes, at least two for each dish, and checked against U.S. food-safety guidance.
Questions
No. It is a digital book in two files, a PDF and an EPUB. Nothing is shipped. You can print any page of the PDF, and the recipe cards at the back are made for printing.
The PDF keeps the designed pages and the pictures exactly as laid out, and suits a tablet, a computer or a printer. The EPUB reflows its text to fit a phone or an e-reader. The printable recipe cards are in the PDF.
Yes. Send the EPUB to your Kindle with Amazon's Send to Kindle, or read it in any EPUB reader app.
Most of them are in an ordinary supermarket. For the few that come from a Spanish grocery or online, the pantry chapter has a table of what to look for and what to use instead.
Yes: cups, tablespoons and teaspoons, pounds and ounces, and degrees Fahrenheit.
No. Each recipe was compiled from published Spanish recipes and its quantities and timings were checked against them. That is why every step tells you what you should see before you move on. All the sources are listed at the back of the book.
Where Spanish home cooking and U.S. guidance disagree, the book follows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the recipe says so. Runny eggs only with pasteurized eggs, a full boil for dried beans, garlic in oil kept in the fridge.
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Yes. If the book is not right for you, ask for a refund within 7 days of buying and you get your money back. To ask, reply to your Gumroad receipt or write to hello@cookthespanishway.com.
Write to hello@cookthespanishway.com. If you have bought the book, you can also reply to your Gumroad receipt email.