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Tapas. A Culinary Journey of Discovery
By Susanna Tee
Parragon - 2007
Quite nice, but too much capers (nearly a whole glass!), and a lot of work in relation to the quantity of food you'll get; but I guess that's inherent to this type of food. I'd at least double the quantity to make the effort worth it.
My major point of critique however is more of a technical kind: you can't re-use bits and pieces of puff pastry by rolling it out again, you just can't. And guess what they're suggesting.... Not that it was necessary anyway, I got 30 empanadilla's out of 320g (7 sheets) of puff pastry, they suggest using (and re-using) 500g.
I fried the ham along with the onions - I'm not sure it made much of a difference, though I might have had if I had only used half the amount of capers.
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This was kind of a Gazpacho turned upside down - a bit of raw, puréed tomato with garlic, with large chunks of peppers and boiled eggs in it - which is nice, in principle, if this is what you expect. A nice refreshing salad with hardly any cooked ingredients, perfect for the heat of summer.
I got a little annoyed at the foto. I'm not usually a person who values it if the finished dish "looks just like the foto" - but in this case, they had clearly omitted an important part of the dish (the dressing) to make it look more appetizing (and consequently, once I added the dressing, it looked a lot less appetizing)! In the picture, I added only one third of the dressing though I didn't stir, just to give you an impression of how it might look, once everything is covered in red mush.
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