Trying to decide what to cook for a special dinner like Valentine's is always difficult for us. We threw around dozens of ideas - crab legs? osso bucco? rabbit? red snapper?We finally decided to do a tapas night. We traveled to Barcelona two years ago and absolutely loved the food. I also recently received a Spanish cookbook as a gift (thanks Pam!) so this was a perfect idea. We started out with poblano peppers sauteed in olive oil until a little blackened and then finished with sea salt.
Our next dish was these beautiful shrimp with lots of garlic and lots of olive oil. If you have ever been to Barcelona, you will know that they LOVE their olive oil.
We then made these oysters and potatoes. The oysters were topped with spinach sauteed in garlic, lemon juice, and a saffron hollandaise sauce and then broiled. The potatoes were boiled and then cooled, tossed with olive oil (again with the olive oil!), and then baked. There were served with a tomato jam and a homemade aioli (made with olive oil!) We were able to find Spanish smoked paprika at Whole Foods and that really made a difference in the flavor of the jam - yummy!
We finished the meal with individual chocolate cakes with a raspberry sauce and vanilla ice cream. Sounded like a perfect dessert for Valentine's but it was actually a bit disappointing (and did not photograph well!)
Happy Valentine's everyone!
1 comment:
Wow! You are an amazing cook. Sounds like a nice meal for August :-)! I'm kidding, but it would be fun to think about.
Aunt Kathy
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