Seafood and Chicken Paella

Seafood and Chicken Paella On the Mediterranean coast, Valencians used seafood instead of meat and beans to make paella. Valencians regard this recipe as authentic as well. In this recipe the seafood is served unshelled. A variant on this is paella del senyoret which utilizes shelled seafood. Later, however, Spaniards living outside of Valencia combined these two recipes and mixed paella was born. During the 20th century, paella’s popularity spread past Spain’s borders. As other cultures set out to make paella, the dish invariably acquired regional influences....

Wild Forest Mushroom Truffle Cream Soup.

Wild Forest Mushroom Truffle Cream Soup. While cleaning out my condiment pantry, I found some air dried wild forest mushrooms that I picked several years back. I didn’t realize how much I still had left. Beside that was also a small tin of imported Italian dried truffle flakes with lots of residue intact. With these ingredients I started to prepare some mushroom tarragon cream soup with some dehydrated garlic c crisps to intensify the flavours. A quick chop of diced celery, onion and shallot, some… unsalted butter into a sauté pan heat and stir while the...