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the ultimate sushi

21 Wednesday Apr 2010

Posted by azahar in food & drink, video

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live, octopus, sushi

Not for the squeamish … live octopus, the ultimate sushi.
(bet raincoaster would love some of this!)

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7 euros

09 Friday Apr 2010

Posted by azahar in food & drink, sevilla, spain, tapas, wine

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seville, tapas, tuna

All this plus a beer for Nog and a glass of wine for me cost 7€.
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People who know me and who also follow @SevillaTapas on Twitter probably wonder how I can afford to go out for tapas so often … and the truth is I can’t, and also, looks can be deceiving. About half the time I’m invited out by friends, the rest of the time Nog & I go out and share a tapa with a drink each, which usually costs about 5€. Not bad for an evening out or an after-Saturday-morning-errands snack. And this way I also keep the “live photos” thing going on Twitter and Facebook, which I hope drives some traffic over to the Sevilla Tapas blog (and may lead to tour bookings!).

But the best tapas deal by far has to be the recently discovered Jueves Gastronómicos at a tiny bar near my house called Extraverde. Each Thurdsay (jueves) they choose one food item and make three special tapas for 1 euro each. Last night they featured tuna and above you can see tuna tartare served on little toasts, baked tuna with mixed greens and tuna tataky on a bed of marinated roasted peppers. Unbelievable value. I’ve only been to one other JG (featuring avocado) and sadly missed the one with beets(!), but hope to make this a regular Thursday outing. Last night while we were sitting there with the doors of the bar wide open and a gentle fragrance of azahar drifting in from the square I just wanted time to stand still, it all felt so perfect.

Where do you usually go to eat out?
What could you get for 7€ (approx $10)?

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cookbooks

28 Sunday Mar 2010

Posted by azahar in blogging, books & writing, food & drink

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cookbooks, cooking, food

These are all the cookbooks I have ever owned in my life. And three of them came to me as gifts in the past month! Weird. That old beat up Joy of Cooking I’ve had since I was maybe 18 years old. Which was also when I started my own handwritten cookbook of favourite things I came across … and then more than fifteen years of personal selections were lost when that book went missing somewhere between Toronto and Europe. Damn! The Joy of Cooking made it though, for reasons that escape me – I would have much preferred to have the book I’d written. And then on my first birthday in Seville I was given Cooking in Spain by Janet Mendel, which became my bible for Spanish cooking.

Fast forward to March 2010 …

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tapas – a bite of spain

08 Monday Mar 2010

Posted by azahar in books & writing, cooking, food & drink, photos, spain, tapas

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cookbooks, janet mendel, michelle chaplow, photography, tapas

Shortly after moving to Seville (in 1993) I was given a copy of Janet Mendel’s Cooking In Spain as a birthday present. And it turned out to be one of the best presents I have ever received (along with my iPhone) because I have used it so much over the years and have also recommended it to others more times than I can remember.

Then last month a Twitter friend got in touch with me to ask for a bit of help with a project she was working on, and I was happy to do so. As a thank you gift Michelle sent me this latest book by Janet Mendel, for which she had done the photography. And all I can say is … wow! It’s not only a fabulous cookbook but also a real visual treat. Check it out if you are interested in Spanish cooking.

Tapas: A Bite of Spain

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birthday boy

03 Wednesday Mar 2010

Posted by azahar in birthdays, food & drink, friends, restaurants, sevilla, tapas

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Yesterday was Nog’s 57th birthday!

And this is what we did. Because this is what we do about birthdays here at casa az … celebrate the heck out of them! Had a wonderful lunch at La Azotea and then a pleasant evening at home watching films and snibbling cats.

You can see the food descriptions here…

La Azotea

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