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Tapas for Tea platter |
After a mid-week boozy visit to La Tasca (review on its way) I boldly announced to the Big Fella that I would assemble tapas for tea on Saturday night. He gave his trademark wry smile and mumbled something about digging out the takeaway menus instead. The cheek!
So, Saturday morning I headed to Cardiff Market to stock up on essential tapas ingredients - antipasto and potatoes!
The olives from the Market Deli were divine. They were also very reasonable priced and for a mere £3.60 I had a tub packed to bursting with black olives, green olives and feta stuffed olives. How I got them home on the bus without devouring them first is a testament to my strength of character!
Needless to say, they were delicious. A mixture of juicy, spicy and bitter olives. Pickled garlic cloves are a particular favourite of mine and made a welcome appearance on the tapas platter.
It's simply unthinkable to serve tapas sin patatas bravas. The simplicity of potatoes in a spicy tomato sauce is comfort food par excellence. I used this recipe from the BBC Good Food website which had maximum taste for minimum effort. The only thing I would change would be to make the potato chunks bigger. Mine were too small. Oh well, guess I'll have to make another batch now (I'm such a perfectionist)!
Next on the tapas for tea menu was leek and potato tortilla, again from the BBC Good Food website. Their recipe calls for 85g of cheese but I rarely eat cheese (unlike the Big Fella who can often be spotted nibbling a piece from the fridge) so I omitted it from the recipe and added a red onion. It still tasted wonderful!
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Leek and potato tortilla |
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Italian sun-dried tomato ciabatta from Tortoise Bakery |
The entire meal really was quick and easy to prepare and tasted absolutely wonderful. The seal of approval came from the Big Fella who gave it two greasy thumbs. I am racking up the good boyfriend points at the moment - at this rate, I'll be putting my feet up all winter while he does the cooking and cleaning!
Do you have any vegetarian and gluten free tapas treats to share? Do let me know!