things we eat and drink, at home and out and about
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:
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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)”
I had the chance to visit La Manera, which I eyed on a former trip to Valencia but didn’t have time to stop at, and it just didn’t disappoint! First I got the cutest flat white I’ve ever been served, then a really yummy granola (I really liked the mint leaves-it was a surprisingly good flavour pairing) ?
I will say the tablespoon they brought was way too big to eat without spilling everything out though, so I ended up using the coffee spoon.
Later we visited La Pilareta. We had been there almost a year ago, but Valencian mussels weren’t available as it wasn’t the right season. This time we were lucky and we could FINALLY have our Valencian mussels! (Plus other delicacies)
Valencian mussels are called clotxines in Valencian, and that’s why the bar is called La casa de les clotxines, ie “the house of Valencian mussels”.
The batter in these calamari was nicely thin, yum!
I’m still juggling one thousand things at once so this week only managed to post one post apart from this one. My hopes from last week for a quieter week: shattered again.
Continue reading “This week in food, 6 (11-17 March 2019)”This week I just managed to post about a bread I baked weeks ago, but I guess that’s better than previous weeks in which I barely had time to write the a week’s summary! And better than nothing at all. Slowly getting less hectic, I hope.
Continue reading “This week in food, 5 (4-10 March 2019)”