Monthly Archives: September 2006

Paella Without Any Seafood For Stewart

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Stewart quite fancied some paella after I made Natalie’s Paella recipe the other night the only problem is – he doesn’t like seafood at all. I thought the perfect combination was chicken and chorizo instead and it was really delicious! The recipe is pretty much the same as the recipe I posted the other night (see the link above for Natalie’s Paella recipe) but this time I made the following changes:

I chopped two store bought roast chicken breasts and used this in place of the prawns.  Since my last paella was a little wet I decided to use much less stock and so I only used 600ml of vegetable stock with 150g paella rice.

After cooking for 20 minutes I added the frozen peas stirred well and replaced the lid and turned the heat way down to almost nothing to allow the rest of the stock to be absorbed by the rice and the peas to cook.
Complete sucess!!

paella for stewart no seafood

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Food Destinations 2 – My Local Greenmarket!!

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When Maki at I Was Just Really Very Hungry decided to make her Food Destinations a regular event I was really happy as the first round was such a success!! ‘My Local Green market’ – the theme for round 2 made me even happier since it meant that I could share with you my dear readers our local market in Basel.

Basel market is held daily Monday-Saturday at Marktplatz (Market Place) and it is busting full of fresh local ingredients and specialties. Simply put, it’s wonderful.

Without further ado here are my photos of our incredible market here in Basel.. Many thanks to Maki for inspiring me to share it with all of you.

fresh bread
Fresh bread cooked in a wood oven
local berries
Local Fresh Berries
wild mushroom
Local Wild Mushrooms

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Natalie’s Paella

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As I said in my post before I went to Glasgow my best friend Natalie is an excellent cook!! Natalie had prepared all of the ingredients to make Paella for my arrival on Thursday but after all the messing around due to my baggage problems we didn’t get back to her house until almost 10pm, we decided to put the paella on hold until Friday night and went for fish suppers on Thursday (very good choice!).

After shopping all day at Braehead shopping center in order that I had some clothes etc and visiting my little grandmother (she’s 84 in January!!) we returned to the flat and Natalie whipped up the most delicious paella. I had a real hankering for it again this week and so I asked Nat to share her recipe. I should have taken some photographs of Natalie’s masterpiece when it was dished up but I was too late and only thought of it after I had already polished off my plate and her and Gareth’s was almost finished but here is what the remained of Natalie’s Paella by the time I got my camera out!

I hope my attempt did Natalie’s version justice! Next time I will buy chorizo from the Spanish deli around the corner and will also use raw prawns instead of pre-cooked.

paella

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Apologies

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Apologies to all my readers for neglecting my site a little and not posting recipes or yummy food this week but I have a lot going on jobwise at the moment. I can’t really talk about it just now but it will all become clear in a couple of weeks (I hope)..

I haven’t really been cooking much, I’ve been in lazy mode since returning from Glasgow but I have taken photos from a dish I cooked the other night and I plan on posting it later so check back to find out what it is..

On another note the food and wine Degustation (local fair) is being held this weekend in Hagenthal just over the border in France and we are planning on paying it a visit either tonight or Monday so stay tuned for a report. I went last year with Amanda and Sue and it was great!! Lots of yummy tasters of local treats and local wines!!