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ghoti_mhic_uaitThere's only one more book left on my shelves for Cookbook project, plus my random collections. I'm sure I have more boooks, they just haven't made it onto the shelves yet.
Yesterday's book was 'Las mejores 100 tapas' by Esperanza Luca de Tena, a book Colin bought me for my birthday last year, in Madrid airport. He wanted to buy the English version, but I said I'd prefer the Spanish, and I think that was the right choice, although it does lead to some interesting translation issues.
I made
Escalibada, Judith's choice, a sort of roast vegetable platter, in whch I think I mistranslated berenjenas. I used courgette, but a closer look indicates that it probably meant aubergine, which J would have liked better.
Patatas a la brava, one of my favourite Spanish dishes. This is a great recipe, you just deep fry the potatoes, then pour over a sauce made of a tin of tomatoes and some tabasco sauce. I just forgot that Colin likes Worcester sauce, not tabasco, in his tomato juice and therefore we didn't have tabasco. So they were slightly cowardly potatoes. Still good, and Benedict liked them better less hot, even if it's not authentic.
Gambas a la Gabardina, simple deep fried prawns but with the addition of bay to the water you cook the prawns in. As my bay tree is flourishing like evil, and the taste was great, I'll be doing that to prawns again.
Migas con jamon y chorizo. This is the specialty of Extremadura, the region we visited, it's fried breadcrumbs. I failed to notice I was meant to soak the breadcrumbs and then dry them out, so it looked a bit rubbish (would have looked nicer with red or yellow peppers as well, especially as I used green in the escalibada, but never mind). Both children really liked this (except B picked out the chorizo as too spicy) so I'll make it again, properly next time.
Yesterday's book was 'Las mejores 100 tapas' by Esperanza Luca de Tena, a book Colin bought me for my birthday last year, in Madrid airport. He wanted to buy the English version, but I said I'd prefer the Spanish, and I think that was the right choice, although it does lead to some interesting translation issues.
I made
Escalibada, Judith's choice, a sort of roast vegetable platter, in whch I think I mistranslated berenjenas. I used courgette, but a closer look indicates that it probably meant aubergine, which J would have liked better.
Patatas a la brava, one of my favourite Spanish dishes. This is a great recipe, you just deep fry the potatoes, then pour over a sauce made of a tin of tomatoes and some tabasco sauce. I just forgot that Colin likes Worcester sauce, not tabasco, in his tomato juice and therefore we didn't have tabasco. So they were slightly cowardly potatoes. Still good, and Benedict liked them better less hot, even if it's not authentic.
Gambas a la Gabardina, simple deep fried prawns but with the addition of bay to the water you cook the prawns in. As my bay tree is flourishing like evil, and the taste was great, I'll be doing that to prawns again.
Migas con jamon y chorizo. This is the specialty of Extremadura, the region we visited, it's fried breadcrumbs. I failed to notice I was meant to soak the breadcrumbs and then dry them out, so it looked a bit rubbish (would have looked nicer with red or yellow peppers as well, especially as I used green in the escalibada, but never mind). Both children really liked this (except B picked out the chorizo as too spicy) so I'll make it again, properly next time.
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Date: 2010-06-29 10:02 am (UTC)