things we eat and drink, at home and out and about
This new restaurant by famous Spanish chef Quique Dacosta opened in our neighbourhood recently, but I’ve been tracking their development since we heard about it around a year ago. We had been speculating as to where its site would be, what would feature in the menu, etc.
All this excitement is because the focus of the restaurant was on rice. And rice is very dear to Valencian people. And the focus of the restaurant was specifically on rice cooked the Valencian way!
Continue reading “Arros QD”
I went to so many great restaurants and made such great food on this month (if I say so myself ?)
And yes, it can’t get any more belated than conflating the entire collection of weekly posts in a monthly one. But I’m embracing it!
Here are the highlights of this month:
Continue reading “The MONTH of April 2019 in food”
Welp, this is a really late “this week” post, but I didn’t have access to a computer on Sunday and I was also really busy holidaying and eating out, as you’ll see in a second ?
Continue reading “This week in food, 7 (18-24 March 2019)”After the success of the previous malted loaf, I attempted another version but just with malted flour. It was OK, and since I sliced and froze most of the loaf I enjoyed it for a couple weeks (it’s very convenient that way).
It was a decent loaf, but it was still too compact and felt a bit dry (even before freezing). I wondered if that was because of having used a rye sourdough starter in addition to the malted loaf. So I started preparing a white starter.
Maybe (MAYBE) next week I can write something else than summary posts, but in the meantime… here are the highlights of last week (if I can finish typing this without falling asleep ?)
Continue reading “This week in food, 4 (25 February-3 March 2019)”