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Pimientos de padron

Pimientos de Padron
Pimientos de Padron

For the last two years or so, as I've been reading more food books and cooking more food, I've read about pimientos de padron a number of times, and they've always sounded delicious. I read about them first in Spanish Country Kitchen (still one of my favorite cookbooks), and then again in Calvin Trillin's Feeding a Yen, and they sounded delicious: tiny green peppers, cooked simply with olive oil and salt, with a wonderful smoky taste.

But I could never find them anywhere!

Until last Saturday, when we went to the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. And just as we were about to leave, I spotted a stand--Happy Quail Farms--with a bunch of peppers, and with bags of pimientos de padron. I bought two bags, and that night I dropped them in some hot olive oil until their skin blistered, then dusted them with sea salt. And they were delicious!

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Garth
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Baby make me pimientos de padron!
btrott
With a baby frying pan!
Samuel Mikel Bowles
As American living in Spain it's funny to read of an American seeking out the food I can find in nearly every tapas bar when I am here looking for a jar of JIF Creamy Peanut butter. :)

Yes, I know, Mediterranean diet and all that, Spanish gastronomy is great but sometimes you just want a little bit of comfort food. Even if that means heavily processed, highly sugared fat squeezed from a nut. And even if "sometimes" means nearly everyday at snack time.
btrott
Yeah, I suspect that if I had access to the pimientos de padron everywhere I looked, I'd eventually get tired of them. :) That said, I bought two more bags of them this weekend, so I'm pretty well hooked!
Daryn
just got back from another trip to spain where I got a fix of my favorite common basque pintxos: piquillo peppers stuffed with tuna. Maybe it's just being there, but even the best canned tuna i can find here, and piquillo's from the spanish table, just don't compare..
Crom74
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Food finds are good.

Welcomes to the Meat group...!

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