Week 2: done. I made family meal on Saturday night for the cocineros. Everyone has to take their turn making family meal, and being the new person, I was stuck with Saturday night because of course that's the longest day and no one wants to spend whatever small break they may have making food for …
Continue reading Another week done at Dos Palillos and a fun weekend full of eating and drinking
Today, I worked 15.5 hours, with a 15 minute break. I'm pretty sure that's illegal, even in Spain. But, the good news is I still have 5 toes on each foot and 5 fingers on each hand, even if my fingernails and fingers, in general, have not been this stained and filthy since I was …
It's 1:45 a.m. and I'm sitting in my bathroom, feet soaking in an ice water tub. I just opened up a bottle of "biologico" rioja. That's organic, here. It goes without saying that I'm exhausted, but I'm too hyped up and sore to go to bed at the moment. I'm super nervous about tomorrow, when …
This is going to be another short post with no pictures, as it's actually Day 3, my time, and I have to run out the door to work in a few minutes - just a short 7 hours after I got home from Day 2. More things I like: 1) I made mochi from scratch. …
No pictures. Who had time? I worked from 2:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m. Today was a short day. Thursdays-Saturdays, I go in at 9:30 a.m. and leave at about 1:00-1:30 a.m. Yep, a.m. to a.m. - 15-16 hour days. Luckily, I'm working with Vincente this week. He does mostly pastry and has been with Albert Raurich since …
So, I was all excited about my first day as a stage at Dos Palillos. I arrived a 1/2 hour early, at 1:30 p.m. The gate was down over the employee entrance and there were no lights on in the restaurant. I thought, "Well, maybe, just maybe everyone shows up at 2?" Nope. It's labor …
Continue reading Labor Day in Spain (Dos Palillos forgot to tell me they were closed)
Saturday was my last day at El Quim... at least as a stage (for a while..I hope to go back). As usual, I was spoiled rotten. In the middle of the day, a woman came in carrying the most gorgeous bouquet of tropical flowers. She asked me if I was Rachel. I immediately smiled and …
Thursday for lunch, Quim made us a delicious muscle and pea soup with a saffron and leek broth. The recipe is really simple: 1) Add 1 c. h2o, 1/2 c. of sweet vermouth, and 2 fresh bay leaves to a pot 3) dump in fresh muscles 4) steam muscles until all are opened (discard any …
Monday, I made Lebanese food, and my boss, Quim, came over for dinner. I made Kibbeh, Fatyre, flatbread with zatar, a tomato and onion salad with sumac, an orange and olive salad (not sure if that's Lebanese, but I thought we needed a 2nd salad), and an app plate of stuffed dates with goat cheese …
Continue reading Sant Jordi Day, and more delicious food in and out of El Quim
On Sundays, many places close down. So, it's a great time to just go walk about the city and window shop to see what new places you might like to patronize when they're open. Just stay away from La Rambla - it's usually a mad house, and today was no different (I crossed over to …
Salty Apron 