It is Friday night. Work is over for this week and I find myself in the kitchen enjoying some extra cooking. Though inspired by the French and the Italian kitchen, alot of my cooking is traditional Norwegian. But today I took a trip south of France, to Spain and the land of the paellas.
Though paella is often served with fish and seafood, I decided to go for a chicken one, with onion and sweet pepper.
To celebrate the week-end, I did a few extra touches on the table, and added white wine to the paella. Terje plays cageball after work every Friday, and is starving when he comes home, so it is easy to find my way into his heart through his stomach.
Chicken paellafry diced chichen in a rich bath of virgin olive oil
add salt and pepper
fry an onion and two sweet peppers (a red and a green)
fry the rice in the olive oil left in the pan
add chicken broth and white wine
boil rice and chicken for about half an hour
add onion and sweet pepper before serving
give huge helpings
second and third helpings tells you that love is achived
We ate the paella with warm foccaccia bread right from the oven, richly sprinkeled with Mauro's Portugese Sal de Flor, and drank Terje's home made blackcurrant lemonade.
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This is my post from The Blue Café last night. More about Padova and the botanical garden later. Today I will be busy in The Blue Garden with winter preparations.
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Blog of the week: My choice for next week is a blog many of you know already, Corey in Provence and her Tongue in Cheek blog. She has one of the best blogs there is out there (in my opinion), and many are naming her mother of all bloggers.
