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Spanish shell fish heaven
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| Posted by: CeciliaC |
Saturday, April 05, 2008 |
If I was asked what is my favourite seafood, I would instantly reply clams, in particular venus clams and the like. The great fishmonger in Kendal often carries butter clams, which are excellent too. I bought about 750 grams (for about 5 pounds, which I think is very reasonable) and some fresh crevettes the other day, and proceeded to cook both Spanish style.
I've been watching a Cooks Tour of Spain on Channel 4 lately, with the unique Tomasina Miers. She first appeared (at least I think so) in the Wild Chefs or whatever it was called last year - when they came to the Wild Boar in Crook and cooked grey squirrels for the unsuspectiing locals (my husband and friend from California among them). Anyway, I found her a bit bizarre in that, but she is really growing on me. She has obviously lived in Spain for some period of time, because she speaks the language beautifully. All the recipes are really simple, using fantastic ingredients, and after trying the Gallician clams with cannellini beans, I'd almost proclaim her a hero.
This is what went into the dish (plus cannellini beans, which seemt to have gone AWOL in this photo):
And this is what it looked like served – it was just devine, the combination of the beans and the clams, fantastic!
The following day I made Gambas al Ajillo, as per recipe in the trusted Moro cookbook. They came out pretty delicious too – Martin preferred them, while I think the clams were just the tops.
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