Posted by johngl (select photos courtesy of Brian)
For the past three years, friend and fellow food fanatic, BigDMcC and I have gotten together, enduring some pretty extreme summer temperatures (the two previous years were over 100°), in order to stand around my backyard fire pit and make paella. For the past two years, these splendiferous tests of our fortitude have coincided with a holiday more widely associated with hoards of drunken adults blowing shit up.
As a reasonably healthy and maladjusted male, I, too, have an affinity for explosive displays, however, the wanton takeover of neighborhood intersections and outright disregard and disrespect for fellow inhabitants, just sets me off a bit. How dare I want to use to the use the street in front of my house for the purpose for which it was intended! What nerve!
But I digress.
We’re here to speak of splendid selections of superb comestibles! This is a traditional style (Valencian) paella made up of confit of duck, confit of rabbit, Navarro and Cannellini beans (Spanish and Italian, respectively), Spanish chorizo, saffron infused chicken/duck/rabbit stock, sofregit, snails, and bomba rice.
