Santa sent greetings from Spain
Extremely good weather (and a garden that is busting out weeds faster than I can yank them out) is keeping me from posting more than minute blurbs of chestnut forest living. But a delivery from Spain especially made my day since it contained several much-anticipated items. Jamon iberico de Bellota, handmade terra cotta plates, bomba rice, saffron from La Mancha and seville orange marmalade. We're having paella this weekend!
scribbled from the chestnut forest by Rowena... at 4:00 PM
8 Comments:
ooh yum!
Kat - I didn't realize how BIG that pan would be...it said that it makes enough for 8 but when I looked at it (17"/43cm diameter), I'm like....that looks big enough to feed at least 10!
now if we really were neighbors, we'd help you eat :)
Now that is what I call a parcel worth waiting for :-) and like K and S .. I am sure we could all help you eat your Paella !!
Will you be making a seafood paella or the meat variety one? Those terracota dishes are great! How I wish I were in your neck of the woods! I haven't had paella since last summer!
Hey, on the post above....I'm considering coming to Bra for the cheese event. Any good travel advice?
Nice! I love paella!
Kat - you would also be the recipient of a lot of different tomatoes, zukes and mirabelle plums! (the stuff that we get way too much of come harvest time).
Anne - I will have to make room in the fridge pre and post paella making. Space for the ingredients and then space for the leftovers.
Bella - nope, the tourist "mixta" or atleast that is what I've seen it referred to as. The valenciana version intriques me for the addition of snails, but I can't bring myself to working with live gastropods without getting grossed out.
carlae - the only advice I can give you is to scour tripadvisor forums. It has been 4 years since we attended the last event, and all I remember is that there were too many things to see and not enough time. I hope they do the street food carts again!
Holly - I've never made it since I'm stubborn like that and insisted on getting a pan first. With the size of this one, I could feed the whole ohana back home (I may as well bring it back with me on the next visit!)
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