This year on New Year's Day, we held our fifth annual Tapas Night. Tapas are little Spanish dishes. My dh and the children usually cook them for me. They started the day before and made a couple of the dishes. This year, we let the children vote for their favorite dishes of the past. We had four dishes from the past and 5 new ones.
First the prep pictures. Deb with her dessert.
Nathan with his Stuffed Pimentos.
Making the meat filled potatoes.
Aaron making the Banderillas.
The Finished Meal: First, the Banderillas. Aaron also made a parsley based sauce that you dip the Banderillas in.
Beets with Romesco Sauce. Also by Aaron.
Stephen's Shrimp in Spicy Tomato Sauce.
Peppered Potatoes (very tasty!) Aaron made these also. We used Spanish paprika and it was fantastic. Much better and smokier than regular paprika.
Stephen's Chorizo Wrapped in Lettuce before they were baked.
The finished Chorizo.
Deb's Catalan Mussells.
Nathan's Rice Filled Pimentos.
Nathan's Meat Filled Potatoes.
Deb's Fried Custard (but we didn't fry it this time!)
3 comments:
Looks amazing as usual!
Where do you find the Spanish paprika?
Do you have a favorite wine to go along with your tapas?
~ Betsy
We found Spanish Paprika at the Wine and Gourmet food store in town. I would think that you could easily find it where you live. And it is definitely worth it. The paprika is smoky and has definitely a more complex flavor than regular grocery store paprika.
We just found a new wine - Terra Andina that is a great buy ($9) and tastes wonderful. It is a Carmenere grape. We also like Cava which I think is actually a Spanish wine.
Looks absolutely scrumptious. (sp?) oh man, i'm getting hungry looking at them!
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