I was on such a Basque food tear in the months following our September trip that I basically forced myself to take a break, lest I burn out on making all of that delicious food and neglect my other favorite foods like pasta. Fast-forward to two months ago, when Michael was on a work trip…
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Mushroom eggs from Basque Country for Sunday brunch.
While I won’t say that every brunch dish we make at home won’t actually be brunch-ish or brunch-adjacent, I have to admit that this new little exercise of ours is encouraging me to scour my cookbooks for the dishes I felt would always be perfect for that time of day first. Since most of them…
Musings on 2018 and saying hello to 2019.
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope everyone was able to enjoy some downtime over the last few weeks as we made the transition from fall to winter with all of the various holidays celebrated during that time. Our Christmas was typically busy, and our New Year’s was considerably more relaxed by comparison. Michael told me…
La cuina de Catalunya: fried squid inspired by Bar Celta Pulperia and shopping for tile at Pinar Miró.
Initially, when I was deep into the planning stage for our trip to Spain I really, really wanted to find some tile shops to find some cool, ideally hand-painted tiles I could carefully bring back to the States, but in reality, the list I came up with comprised of shops that mainly sold the more…
A txiquiteo in San Sebastian: montadito of chorizo and quail egg from The Basque Book.
[Ed. – To my friends in the US, please vote today if you haven’t already.] The sheer number of Spanish and Catalan cookbooks in my collection is proof enough that one of the things I love to do most after visiting a place I love is to try to recreate as many of the dishes that…
A txiquiteo in San Sebastian: shrimp and pancetta pinxtos with modern allioli.
It should come as no surprise that I was determined to embrace Basque cooking even before we had left San Sebastian; I found one of the few open-on-Sunday bookstores and purchased myself a copy of Los Mejores Pintxos de Donostia along with another book devoted to tartines that was too visually appealing to pass up,…
And now: a note on Anthony Bourdain.
Llueve en el canal La corriente enseña el camino Hacia el mar Todos duermen ya Dejarse llevar suena demasiado bien Jugar al azar Nunca saber dónde puedes terminar O empazar –Vetusta Morla, “Copenhague” The Sunday morning we were in San Sebastian dawned grey and cloudy, but not rainy, and while I missed the brilliant…
Imatges/ Irudiak de Espanya/ Espainiako, a beginning of sorts.
Prior to last week, it had been four years since I’ve been in Spain, or really traveled abroad anywhere; I’m not sure what happened, except that in 2016 we just never got around to putting something together and life simply got int the way the other times. Since this October marks our tenth anniversary, we…
