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dark

30 Saturday Oct 2010

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Today’s Photohunt theme is “dark”.

Squid ink always makes food quite dark…

On the left is very garlicky squid ink spaghetti with a perfectly grilled scallop on top. Upper right are croquettes made of minced squid (and ink) and bechamel. And below that is some crispy seafood rice. The ink not only adds colour but also a delicate and delicious squiddy flavour. Here I buy it frozen in little sachets.

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plaza de españa

20 Wednesday Oct 2010

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After YEARS of restoration work the beautiful Plaza de España reopened this past weekend. I waited until Monday to check it out and tried to recreate the first time I ever saw the place, back in September 1993. I’d seen it on my map so I knew it was a semi-circular building and I’d read that it was designed by Anibal Gonzalez and built as the Spanish pavillion for the 1929 Ibero-American Expo, but nothing had prepared me for what I saw when I turned the corner of the North Tower…
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