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happy new year 2021!
01 Friday Jan 2021
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mission accomplished!
31 Thursday Dec 2020
Posted in azahars kitchen, casa azahar, food & drink, home, homecooking
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New Year’s Eve dinner was AMAZING. Inspired by the wonderful presa al palo cortado that I’d had at Bodeguita Romero earlier in the week. It was the first time I’d slow-cooked a whole piece of presa Ibérico de Bellota (pork shoulder) and so I got some cooking tips from my friends, the family at @bodeguitaromero and chef @jose_pizarro. It wasn’t that much different than making my (now famous!) carrillada al oloroso but this sauce was made with palo cortado sherry, LOTS of sweet onion, portobellos, garlic and a few sprigs of fresh thyme. I think I maybe overcooked it a bit as the sauce ended up VERY reduced and had a fair bit of meat in it, that had fallen off the shoulder. So I added more broth and sherry to it and wow, so tasty. Side dishes: roasted potatoes, courgette and spring onion, and Yorkshire puddings. What did you have?
new year’s eve challenge!
30 Wednesday Dec 2020
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While out enjoying the Christmas lights on Monday we stopped for a couple of tapitas at Bodeguita Romero and one of them was this totally tender and tasty Presa Ibérica al Palo Cortado. I mean, it was seriously OMG good. So I decided that I would try to replicate it as a New Year’s Eve dish. Then I got this 600 gram monster and have since been trying to figure out how to prepare it! The Romero family have given me some vague instruction, and my friend José Pizarro has also helped out. But I’m still kind of going in with a bit of knowledge but nothing step by step to follow. Stay tuned!
shrooms
29 Tuesday Dec 2020
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I often get compliments on my “today’s blue” photos of Las Setas on my @azahar Instagram, but honestly it’s hard to take a bad pic of them.
christmas lights 2020
28 Monday Dec 2020
It’s taken me this long to finally see the Christmas lights, which were switched on during the long weekend (Dec 6-8th). Mostly because I almost never go out in the evening, which of course is coupled with not going out much at all anyhow. This used to be one of the highlights of the year for me. This year less so. In fact Christmas itself feels less, well, like Christmas this year. And it’s not because I’ve spent it on my own, because I’ve done that plenty of times. Maybe I’m just losing the ability to get caught up in Christmas joy like I used to. Or joy in general. But yeah, the lights were lovely.
