un sabor de España

ON THE MENU: Seafood Paella, we found this recipe in "The New Basics Cookbook". We were inspired to make this Spanish dish because of our friend Lindsey’s new love for it. Her love affair for this family style dish was ignited while visiting her older sister in Spain this past winter.

LOGISTICS: After hours of searching for recipes under the incorrect spellings: Piyaya? Pilla? Piyalla?... Ashley texted Ali for the correct one. This recipe included: garlic and rosemary marinated shrimp, clams, rabbit, lobster and mussels.

However being the pescatarians that we are, we skipped the rabbit and chose not to break the bank for lobster. And, apparently it is not mussel season so we had to make due with shrimp, clams, and tofurkey sausages.

Although our dinner was satisfying, we would not recommend this dish. The rice was a bit bland, and who wants to eat Bugs Bunny’s cousin?

The paella was fun to make and required all four kitchen helpers, because there was so much chopping and grilling involved. Joining us in the kitchen today were Lindsey and Ellie.

Despite our discontent with the recipe we have not given up on Paella. Lindsey’s mom has a recipe that we will be trying before we all had back to school.

Kitchen Talk:

- Lindsey giving Ashley a hard time for not having a garlic compressor.

- Maddie taste-testing while prepping. i.e. raw rice... not so yummy.

- Maddie and Ashley’s matching maxi dresses... awk

- Ali's older sister's 21^st bday.

Since we wrote this on the road to san fran we also have some car talk for you...

- Cosmo… enough said

- The fact that we are 30 in ten years… ohhh godddd

- Smuggling fuit across the Oregon-Cali boarder… We are such bad liars but we got a way this time! Good thing the watermelon was yummy :)

- Debate as to weather we were passing a karst or not( juls any ideas?)

- Rainbow trucks in Weed??