Over there, they use harissa.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harissa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paella and in the Balkans.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajvar T. -----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >Sent: Oct 30, 2007 2:30 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Texascavers] Paella & bread > >-------------- Original message ---------------------- >From: "Minton, Mark" <[email protected]> >> I like Mary Thiesse's friend's comment: >> >>If you serve Paella on a piece of bread to a Spaniard, and you tell them >> >>that >> is paella they would probably leave the table. > >The first paella I ever actually saw was served on (in) a large (20-inch >diameter) pizza dough sorta flat bread turned up nearly 2 inches (well, maybe >1-1/2") at the edges (like a Conans deep dish pizza) and that filled with the >yellow rice which was topped with the sea food and vegie mixture--including 2 >or 3 of what looked like crawfish, probably some sorta small lobster--and >mollusks of several sorts still in shell. Eating it was a rather messy >proposition (like fried chicken or shrimp or crabs) as it required a lot of >food fondling prepatory to actual eating. > >The whole flat bread/edible pan thing could well have been another variation >on the free-form nature of paella in the first place. I will admit that I >think no paella I've had since has had the bread bottom--and I have noted that >and wondered why not. But the bread bottom certainly made it handier to deal >with and eat, sorta like a pizza--as opposed to a loose, gloppy rice & food >mixture, I mean. > >My only complaint was the lack of chopped green chiles or salsa picante to >take it over the edge to the next dimension of flavor. > >--Ediger > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Visit our website: http://texascavers.com >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > http://home.infionline.net/~tbsamsel/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
