Spanish Food
JEREMY TAYLOR: WRITER - TEACHER - JUGGLER
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Spanish Food |
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I have spent a fair amount of time in Spain and in general, I enjoy Spanish food, though I have also seen some pretty poor dishes. Here are a few examples of what I have sampled. |
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Seafood soup. A spicy, tangy sauce and plenty of crustaceans still in their shells. A good and quite filling starter. |
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Deep fried fish in batter. Not bad though the dollop of mayonnaise, lettuce leaf and slice of lemon didn't do much for the presentation. |
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Squid in their own ink. Not particularly tasty. I have some friends who have a a 2 year old daughter who loves this dish. |
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Mussels as a starter. A nice size and a rich sauce. What more could a man ask for? A few more mussels perhaps? |
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A large salad. It was not salad season and so the salad was not the best Spain can provide. |
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That's more like it - too much dressing perhaps? |
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Did someone say 'more mussels'? |
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Deep fried chicken breast with some mild chillies. Doesn't the plate seem strangely bare? |
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Rissotto, made with anything the cook could find. Heavy and not particularly tasty. |
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It is not difficult to find an inexpensive meal in Spain. Here you can see a three course meal, with bread, wine or water, for 8 euros. |
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The Spanish are big on seafood. Ideally cooked fresh rather than heated up a hundred times... |
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Marks out of ten for presentation? Well, it was filling... |
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Roast beef and chips, what more could an Englishman ask for? Well, to have less gristly piece of meat... The chilli and pepper sauce was good though. |
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Looking more like pork scratchings than something edible... The chips weren't bad. |
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Apologies for the yellow tinge. Here is a mountain of paella - for one person! |
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Slightly more modest. Sausage and beans. |
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Pork chop in a rich, though not very nice, sauce. |
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Great colours! Deep fried banana, or perhaps plantain, with a mound of white rice, tomato sauce and all topped by a fried egg. |
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From a Spanish supermarket, here you can see cured hams. |
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Looking a bit like custard with a rich tea biscuit floating on top - because that's just what it was. In the background, a kind of cheesecake. |
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Baked apple with a rich caramel sauce. Enough to give your dietician a heart attack. |
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More cheesecake, a dollop of cream, half a mandarin and no, not beetroot, a pear that had been marinated - quite what in, I'm not sure. |
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Ah, crème caramel. In France, a crême caramel is given a quick blast with a blow torch to caramalise the top. In Spain, a hot iron is placed in a fire and is then held on top of the pudding for a few seconds, just enough time to make this delightful dish taste like an old ashtray... |
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