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an exquisite snack

06 Monday Oct 2008

Posted by azahar in food & drink, health & happiness, photos, sevilla, tapas

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I mentioned in yesterday’s post that one of the things I’ve been able to enjoy again are daily walks, and yesterday was no exception. Nog and I headed out late in the morning and I told him he was the ‘tour guide’, so for the next couple of hours he led me through the old Jewish quarter, down near the Alfalfa, and then up to the Ronda, all via little side streets, some of which we’d never been on before.

We ended up near Becerríta and I told Nog I had to get an outside photo of the place because I forgot to do so when Pipocas took me there a few weeks ago. So I tried getting a good shot but there was a guy hanging out in front who seemed to be waiting for someone and not likely to leave very soon, and so we decided to go inside for a cold drink. Well … after having been walking around for the past couple of hours we were actually getting hungry so Nog offered to treat us to a snack. We tried a couple of the special tapas del día on the menu and they were simply divine.

Above is a revuelto – basically scrambled eggs with potatoes and melt-in-your-mouth stewed bull’s tail. And below is grilled sea bass topped with slivered potatoes and served with marinated red peppers, onions and tomatoes. Along with a cold beer and chilled glass of white wine it was a truly exquisite snack. Kind of fed more than our appetites, if you know what I mean.

Boy, I love living in Sevilla!  🙂

damn my memory!

03 Friday Oct 2008

Posted by azahar in food & drink, friends, holidays, rants, trips

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This is driving me bonkers!

Yesterday Pipocas took me out for a lovely lunch at a new place (well, new for us) called Viniera San Telmo. It had been recommended by someone from the UK who had written to me back in August, thanking me for my tapas blog because he brings people to Sevilla for tapa tours and apparently my site has been very helpful to him. He also told me about some of his favourite places here, one of which is Viniera San Telmo. And so we tried it out and it really was fabulous. Anyhow, over lunch . . .

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pasta

27 Saturday Sep 2008

Posted by azahar in food & drink

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My friend Fanny (aka Effers) wrote about pasta on Ask h2g2 yesterday, linking to this food info website which describes and names the ‘most common’ types of pasta. Common? I’d never heard of most of them! Here at casa az the most common types of pasta used are spaghetti, fusilli and penne. What about at your casa?

Have you ever made pasta? I haven’t, but I’d especially like to make ravioli sometime and attempt to recreate my favourite dish at Porta Rossa – ravioli filled with seta mushrooms and pinenuts in a cream & nutmeg sauce with parmesan. Though I wonder if it’s really worth the time and effort to make your own.

yet another lunch…

19 Friday Sep 2008

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

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Yesterday my friend Judy (aka La J) took me out to Tre Fratelli for lunch. It was her first time there and she loved it. And coincidentally, the AWC will be having their first luncheon of the season there in October, but I reckon I’ll be missing that one. Anyhow, that’s my pizza up there – half prawn & spinach, half chorizo & peppers – which was fabulous (and I even took some home for Nog).  Below is J’s fettucini with chicken in creamy dijon mustard sauce. And below that is something new they are trying out called crostini.  Guess I’ll have to wait until November to try those, but they sure looked good.

Thanks again for such a nice afternoon, Judy! f_hug.gif

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more food …

17 Wednesday Sep 2008

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

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Juan Manuel & Manolo with wild chanterelles

This lunch treat week has been a lot of fun.  Yesterday Pipocas took me out to Becerríta – it was my first time there and I loved it.  Then today, after getting my ‘hospital haircut’, Nog and I went over to Bodeguita Romero to give Pedro Romero the menu translation I did for him at his request (he’d asked me last week when Sara & Steve had taken Nog & me out for lunch there).  And so we had a small snack there – on the house – and then Nog suggested that he take me out for a ‘last fritura’ (at least until November) at Modesto.

Well, I hadn’t been to Modesto since the prognosis lunch at the end of June so everyone there made a big fuss about seeing me again. And also about me going into hospital on Monday.  Nog and I had the usual fritura and I was captivated by a huge platter of wild mushrooms on the bar (see photo above), so I asked Juan Manuel what they were and how they were prepared … his description sounded so scrumptious that I really wanted to try them.  What the hell. And it turned out that we got quite a nice discount on the price (I’m feeling very spoiled these days).  Here they are … wild chanterelles sautéed in garlic and olive oil with thinly sliced chocos (cuttlefish/squid).

At both the Bodeguita and Modesto I was hugged and kissed by the waiters and was given all their best wishes, and was also told not to worry because we’d all see each other again soon … it was really nice. It’s also just one of the many reasons why Sevilla feels like home to me.

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