May 26, 2007
Pimientos de Padrón at the May Flower in Getaria
It's a very simple thing, but I think our most exciting gustatory discovery while in Spain was a traditional (Galician) pepper dish, Pimientos de Padrón, and I'm willing to go to great lengths to find the right pepper in order to reproduce the dish at home.
This picture shows us on the terrace outside the May Flower restaurant in Getaria finishing a magnificent, elegant but extraordinarily-minimal appetizer of house-cured anchovies in a terrific local olive oil combined with chopped garlic, just after the peppers were brought to the table and before the wood-grilled Sea devil (Monk Fish) entrée had arrived from the fires burning ten feet behind Barry's chair.
The wine in that beautiful thin [cider] tumbler was an excellent Txakoli from the Basque country.
Posted by james at May 26, 2007 12:16 AM