Anyway.
From Ibiza, I brought jamón (cerrano and iberico – there are fierce fights about which is best. I like cerrano), paella rice and coffee (yeah!). The last is another weird tradition. Even though Norway’s Friele coffee really isn’t that good, I still find myself shopping a pack of it along with my ultimate favorite Mills Mayones and Römmegrött.
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| Paella, “home-made” in Koppas, San Antonia, Ibiza |
Today, having some friends over, I managed to make quite an outstanding paella. Honestly, it tasted better than the one in Koppas, in San Antonio, in Ibiza.
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| Paella in Tartu, mi casa 🙂 |
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| Give me food – it took ca 2h to prepare |
I used a recipe I got from here (in Estonian, but google translate can always help). I did the seafood version. Let’s be honest, I did not quite follow the recipe, for example I used small shrimps, the mussels were not in the shells, and squids not in the tube, I forgot one (smoked???) paprika, but the outcome was delicious. It did take approximately 2h to be finished, though it says ca 20-40 min. It came out juicy, fresh and with enough (and not too much of) seafood. I was afraid of that turning out badly.
This morning, we also tried Ibiza coffee. Since I buy coffee in beans, it was quite fresh. But I don’t like it. It taste like the beans have been over roasted. I have to say, coffee is one thing I need to take with me when I go to the Island of Love, or quit drinking coffee and instead enjoy they’re absolutely tasty fresh orange juices.
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| Breakfast of the Ibicencos@Ibiza |
Until the next trie-outs. I still have some duck, rabbit and chicken meat, since I read mistakenly from the recipe that these are necessary, when in fact they were as a second option. Go figure!