Spanish food

[Querubín]

As Eldritch loves spanish ham and "chorizo", I decided to open this topic.

Carrilladahttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lg_Q_71J56k/SMl326sBcBI/AAAAAAAAAGk/CLj9xdzJP0A/s400/carrillada+de+ternera+006.jpg

Croquetas
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2800/4358955154_7b217b11df_o.jpg

Puchero
http://sobrehuelva.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/p9260117.jpg

Cocido
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_j4xQnCXNT7c/TNAvXFU5B5I/AAAAAAAAGt8/Z5BxuKv7zsg/s1600/alubias-con-acelgas.jpg

Pringá
http://www.gallinablanca.es/descargas/foto.aspx?id=15017&w=340&h=280

[Sikeliot]

Well this is Catalan, but I've eaten it before and it's so good that I thought I'd put it here (and still give the Catalans credit for it) ;)

http://static2.todanoticia.com/tn2/uploads/news_image/2010/10/23/crema_catalana.jpg

[Eldritch]

A cholesterol bomb I've enjoyed a few times in Andalucian cafés: :D

https://bhlspectrum.wikispaces.com/file/view/461189-Chocolate-y-churros-0.jpg/32621483/461189-Chocolate-y-churros-0.jpg

I also like tapas bars. They are a very relaxed, yet social form of enjoying a meal.

http://www.malagaweb.com/images/andalucia/granada/granada-tapas.jpg

:hungry:

Btw, restaurant Juuri (http://www.juuri.fi/en/) ("root") in Helsinki has developed their own version of tapas, made only with Finnish ingredients, called sapas. Definitely an option to consider for dinner, if you should ever find yourself around these parts.

[Treffie]

Now we're talking! I'm too lazy to make it myself, so I get mine from Marks and Spencer. (meatballs in chorizo and tomato sauce)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hlxGFZiqsfg/TGlNZjRX2XI/AAAAAAAADB8/IHl6lxwW6TU/s1600/meatballs-in-chorizo-and-tomato-sauce-gastropub.jpg

[Sikeliot]

:D

http://thumbs.ifood.tv/files/images/spanish_cuisine.jpg

[Eldritch]

A ridiculously simple yet delicious Spanish staple: the potato omelette.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_S1Gu2hX9S6c/SjXcjeE9KcI/AAAAAAAAJuc/JOyK8V8Ssu8/Spanish%20Potato%20Omelet.jpg

[Comte Arnau]

:D

http://thumbs.ifood.tv/files/images/spanish_cuisine.jpg

Another Catalan/Valencian dish. ;)

[Sikeliot]

Maybe Catalunya is the only part of Spain with fantastic food! ;)

[Comte Arnau]

Maybe Catalunya is the only part of Spain with fantastic food! ;)

Well, here I must say that every corner of the Iberian Peninsula has delicious food.

[Sikeliot]

Well, here I must say that every corner of the Iberian Peninsula has delicious food.

I'm not familiar with other Spanish dishes, but Portuguese food is wonderful. Maybe I'll start a thread. :thumb001:

[Comte Arnau]

I'm not familiar with other Spanish dishes, but Portuguese food is wonderful. Maybe I'll start a thread. :thumb001:

I've been into almost every region of Iberia, and if you know what is best at every place, eating becomes a real pleasure and at perfectly affordable prices. And yes, Portuguese cuisine is wonderful too indeed, and it's a pity that people don't know it as well as it deserves.

[Lábaru]

My favorite are "embutidos ibéricos"

http://www.jamonestrescastro.telemw.com/sites/www.jamonestrescastro.telemw.com/files/DSC00011.JPG

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gvx0hvSVgBI/SwPEhvGWofI/AAAAAAAANYg/pSD1KrP1hdg/s1600/El+bosque1.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3mqU2ljiMk0/TSCuT15xf8I/AAAAAAAABDQ/svxz4qNecq4/s1600/DSCN7361.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WmnymtMZdBk/TbKdB09TDPI/AAAAAAAAAKA/bKvF5cCSju4/s1600/Camino+de+Santiago+2011+086.jpg

http://www.foodbuzz.com/photos/0026/5668/DSC00417.jpg?1229773661

http://www.carniceriamedalladeoro.es/IMAGENES/47.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gsLqd9gFlEw/TSV0J9L47uI/AAAAAAAAB94/BYsUkgfdJRo/s1600/Bocadillos%2Bde%2Bembutido.JPG

http://www.agromeat.com/attachm3nt5/1150704931Cerdo_iberico_Bellota2.jpg

[Sikeliot]

This thread is making me hungry!

[Ibericus]

Fabada asturiana :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/SunnyFabada.jpg/800px-SunnyFabada.jpg

Migas :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Migas_copia.png/800px-Migas_copia.png

Cocido Madrileño :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/CocidoMadrile%C3%B1o.jpg/800px-CocidoMadrile%C3%B1o.jpg

Torta del Casar :

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/503063819_cdb992140f.jpg

[Don]

Maybe Catalunya is the only part of Spain with fantastic food! ;)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fGiSeDXqy-I/S9jl4N0l4eI/AAAAAAAABCM/59RPTv7XMqU/s1600/04-02-06_lego-suicidio.jpg

[Grumpy Cat]

OM NOM NOM!!!

Recipes plz!

[Querubín]

Ropa vieja
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9QedVFtjls8/SFV4zdt2TaI/AAAAAAAABXQ/44hJ7VmuI9Y/s1600-h/ropa+vieja.jpg

Papas con carne
http://www.javirecetas.com/images/151/papas-con-carne.jpg

Potaje de garbanzos con bacalao
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T_DqkhaolTs/S9ca1Ly_ArI/AAAAAAAAAD0/kKVQ4tqhzgo/s1600/potaje+de+garbanzos+con+bacalao.JPG

Habas con jamón
http://img.webme.com/pic/a/alpargataycucharon/habas2.jpg

Cazón en adobo
http://recetin.socialmood.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cazon-en-adobo.jpg

Puntillitas
http://buscador.comprarentuciudad.com/filesupload/2/productos/3912_producto_normal.jpg

[antonio]

Maybe Catalunya is the only part of Spain with fantastic food! ;)

In fact is one of the worst ones. :D Snails, insipid mushrooms, a second class champagne called cava after legal disputes, strange sausages like romesco...and, as the cherry on the top: Ferrán Adria, who once openly confesed he has not a restaurant to feed people, but a place to life sensorial experiences.:confused:

Ps. But Catalonian cream has always been one of my favourite sweet plates (probably they toke it away from Frenchies at an undetermined moment in History) :D

Ps2. And multitudinary festivals as Snail Meeting...WTF?

[Blossom]

Hey, you all are fatties. :D Always postin on this thread! :D

[Querubín]

Hey, you all are fatties. :D Always postin on this thread! :D

Yes, we love eat :D

[Comte Arnau]

In fact is one of the worst ones. :D Snails, insipid mushrooms, a second class champagne called cava after legal disputes, strange sausages like romesco...and, as the cherry on the top: Ferrán Adria, who once openly confesed he has not a restaurant to feed people, but a place to life sensorial experiences.:confused:

Ps. But Catalonian cream has always been one of my favourite sweet plates (probably they toke it away from Frenchies at an undetermined moment in History) :D

Ps2. And multitudinary festivals as Snail Meeting...WTF?


Pffff. Catalanophobia even in a thread about food... you're definitely sick. :rolleyes:

[antonio]

Pffff. Catalanophobia even in a thread about food... you're definitely sick. :rolleyes:

Catalanophobia, WTF? Id simple overreacted to mariexos pointless post. BTW I thought Catalonian essences were put in more important things (like beauty girls) than snail or romesco sausage:D. Or maybe, thinking it twice, not only you want me to impose your language, but also your meal tastes. I wonder what would Federico think about this one. :D

[Amapola]

http://www.entrepucheros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/choto-al-ajillo.jpg
Choto al ajillo

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Mw_MbCT4u-g/S5yjxba6s2I/AAAAAAAAAeo/id-h3SJPGts/s400/Torta+Real+de+Motril+3.jpg
Torta real

http://www.whattovisitinmalaga.com/images/espetos-de-sardinas.jpg
Espetos de sardinas

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EP0YuGTRUY/SO38XQ1fzRI/AAAAAAAAApE/4PmmIeKpz5Y/s400-R/P1040933p.jpg
Anchoas en vinagre

http://www.spicelines.com/IMG_2290pipirrana400wide.jpg
Pipirrana

[antonio]

That's a nice bunch, Mourchois. Specially not much known Torta Real seems impressive, even if Im myself not much of sweeties (just talking about glucose and sacarose). :D

[Eldritch]

...and, as the cherry on the top: Ferrán Adria, who once openly confesed he has not a restaurant to feed people, but a place to life sensorial experiences.:confused:



Well, he's supposed to the entire world's most visionary chef or something. But no, I don't go to restaurants for sensory experiences, I go to a restaurant to eat. :p

[Amapola]

That's a nice bunch, Mourchois. Specially not much known Torta Real seems impressive, even if Im myself not much of sweeties (just talking about glucose and sacarose). :D

La torta real is a typical thing from Motril; people know it like "torta real de Videras" which is an expensive patisserie. The recipe has gone through generation to generation for couple of centuries I think. It's nice... there are recipes on the internet, but nothing like la torta de Videras. ;)

[antonio]

Well, he's supposed to the entire world's most visionary chef or something. But no, I don't go to restaurants for sensory experiences, I go to a restaurant to eat. :p

Indeed a primitive impulse, when your stomach segregates ClH to signal your mind you should eat again to keep your cells away from starvation.:D

Instead Ferrán Adriá thinks that you should substract yourself from that cicle at an undetermined point of the future (or determined for his fucking queue of global class snobs who assume as normal the infeasibity of simply moving there at sit at a free table). That's XXIth century way, I guess. :coffee:

Ps. Moreover, he has topclass relevant followers at your close vicinity (Denmark) ready to empty your pocket at the little occasion.

[antonio]

La torta real is a typical thing from Motril; people know it like "torta real de Videras" which is an expensive patisserie. The recipe has gone through generation to generation for couple of centuries I think. It's nice... there are recipes on the internet, but nothing like la torta de Videras. ;)

So next time you will into thank one of my posts, better think twice and command one of this to one of my home addresses. :D

[Comte Arnau]

Catalanophobia, WTF? Id simple overreacted to mariexos pointless post.

There was no need to degrade a whole cuisine for that. I already told her that every Iberian corner can boast of having delicious food.

I'm not surprised, now that I think about it. Since in the world's top ten haute-cuisine restaurants, the 'Spanish' restaurants are always Catalan and Basque, it's now cool -even a duty- to degrade haute cuisine. However, when prizes come, you hear the media say 'Spanish cuisine' and 'Spanish chefs at the top'... Lol. Same thing with sportspeople. When they lose, they're Catalan. When they win, they're fabulous Spanish athletes.... :coffee:

Anyway, forget it. Better keep posting food or the one of always will appear saying I derail threads, when it's always one of you who provokes it.

[Eldritch]

Instead Ferrán Adriá thinks that you should substract yourself from that cicle at an undetermined point of the future (or determined for his fucking queue of global class snobs who assume as normal the infeasibity of simply moving there at sit at a free table). That's XXIth century way, I guess. :coffee:



Well, I can certainly understand the idea of eating food as a pleasure, instead of something one simply must do in order to remain alive. But like you say we're not ready for battery-operated humanity just yet.

[billErobreren]

Do you guys have any vegetarian dishes. I assume you might at Barcelona I saw veggies & fruits I never even knew existed

[antonio]

Well, I can certainly understand the idea of eating food as a pleasure, instead of something one simply must do in order to remain alive. But like you say we're not ready for battery-operated humanity just yet.

I also regard eating food as a pleasure, but intimately attach that to quality/prize relationship. :D

Ps. It's one of the most outaragous things: modern times expect ourselves acting as robots. I do want no to be scheduled from a fucking meal months before (moreover at that astronomical prices), that's pointeless and degrading! :mad:

[antonio]

Do you guys have any vegetarian dishes. I assume you might at Barcelona I saw veggies & fruits I never even knew existed

Tipical vegetarian dishes usually based on highly nutritive beans-like vegetables. Besides, of course, simple salads or their deconstructed versions (gazpachos).

[billErobreren]

Tipical vegetarian dishes usually based on highly nutritive beans-like vegetables. Besides, of course, simple salads or their deconstructed versions (gazpachos).

oh cool. got any recipes? it be great if I ate something spanish for a change, lately I've getting in some Ethiopian food & that crap is just nasty:thumb down2 I didn't become a vegetarian cuz I wanted to:p, groceries were cheaper if I didn't buy any meat. little did I know that my system would end rejecting them fully:rolleyes2: by Thanksgiving. Now I'm scared to death at eating meat

[Black Sun Dimension]

I love spanish food, althought im not a big fan of the famous paella. Among my favorites are chorizos and churros.

[Don]

http://www.elalmanaque.com/turismo/restaurantes/candido/Alberto%20partiendo%20cochinillo.jpg
http://imgnews.teleprensa.es/Matanzacerdo281109.jpg

http://cvc.cervantes.es/artes/fotografia/saura/imagenes/exposicion/rostros/saura_51.jpg


A real Spaniard loves Pigs and dislikes anyone who does not appreciate them.
http://www.karmapanda.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/tocino-chancho.jpg

[gold_fenix]

Pisto
http://sapiens.ya.com/camjovellanos/comidas/Espana/pisto.jpg
ali oli
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uH4Mcv8lYc4/SlEqLOQstEI/AAAAAAAAAY4/gFDFpKLz9nA/s400/250px-Alioli-DelteEbre-01.jpg
patatas bravas
http://blogs.parasaber.com/blogfiles/http-blogs-parasaber-com-colombine/_PatatasBravas1.JPG
marmitako
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_04y1uLMSN64/SX1l0Lfa-xI/AAAAAAAAA-o/ZzyVBC32wco/s400/Marmitako+011p.jpg
albondigas
http://fotos.mundorecetas.net/albums/userpics/10267/Alb%C3%B3ndigas_(cerdo)_14_n~0.jpg

[Querubín]

http://www.elalmanaque.com/turismo/restaurantes/candido/Alberto%20partiendo%20cochinillo.jpg
http://imgnews.teleprensa.es/Matanzacerdo281109.jpg

http://cvc.cervantes.es/artes/fotografia/saura/imagenes/exposicion/rostros/saura_51.jpg


A real Spaniard loves Pigs and dislikes anyone who does not appreciate them.
http://www.karmapanda.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/tocino-chancho.jpg

Del cochino hasta los andares. Que magnifico animal!!!
The Spanish we eat up the gait of porks. That magnificent animal!!!

[Comte Arnau]

ali oli

Ali oli? All i oli!! :p Ajiaceite en castellano, según el RAE.

The English say aioli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aioli), which at least is closer in pronunciation. A sauce that joins again Catalans with Occitans, btw. ;)

There's a wide variety of sauces over Iberia, sometimes almost from town to town.

[El Palleter]

A sauce that joins again Catalans with Occitans, btw. ;)Yet it's better known for being a Valencian sauce, not Catalan or Occitan, btw :)

[Comte Arnau]

Yet it's better known for being a Valencian sauce, not Catalan or Occitan, btw :)

Er... what?? Allioli is not only used for paellas.

[El Palleter]

And who's talking of paellas?

[Comte Arnau]

And who's talking of paellas?

Then I don't get you, because allioli is a very Catalan/Occitan sauce. In fact, internationally most people know it as a 'French' sauce because of it. Actually, I don't know where you take its supposed Valencian fame from.

[El Palleter]

Actually, I don't know where you take its supposed Valencian fame from.
In Spain, from everyone except for Catalans who always look forward to prey on Valencian culture with utmost disrespect

And so is all i pebre (garlic and paprika) sauce Valencian (while Romesco is Catalan)