Tag Archives: Tapas

Goat Cheese Croquette Recipe: For the Tapas Party Files

March 18, 2009 – 2:35 pm

  I can only spare a minute today, so I’ll stick to the facts: Fact #1: The only thing better than fried anything else is fried goat cheese. Fact #2: The only thing better than fried goat cheese is fried goat cheese with caramelized shallots and a drizzle of honey. Fact #3: Crispy outside, creamy, [...]

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Tapas Party Recipe IV – Strawberry Manchego Delight

November 22, 2008 – 1:02 pm

  It’s so fun when you taste food combinations that you never really considered putting together. I had this dessert at a tapas restaurant a long time ago (so long that I’m not sure where I was when I tasted it – I think it was Dali in Cambridge, MA) and when my boyfriend made [...]

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Tapas Party Recipes Day III – Spicy Sauteed Calamari

November 18, 2008 – 7:14 pm

  Here is another for tapas party that I did without using a specific recipe. File this one under spicy! Traditional Spanish Tapas is never complete without a squid dish, but it is almost always fried and served with aioli. Since I was verging on grease overkill with a bacon item and a fried cheese [...]

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Tapas Party Recipes Day II – Rustic Eggplant Crostini, Roasted Artichokes, and Bacon-Wrapped Dates

November 17, 2008 – 6:18 pm

  My second favorite thing about serving tapas to guests is that many of the most crowd-pleasing recipes are rediculously simple, to the point that the guest “ooooh and ahhhh” to work ratio is so vastly spread it feels like you are cheating. Here there are three recipes that use as few as two ingredients [...]

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Tapas Party Recipes – Ingrid Hoffman’s Cheesecake Flan

November 16, 2008 – 12:34 pm

  One of my favorite types of parties to throw is a tapas party, because it allows me to experiment with new recipes without a lot of prior testing – because hey, if one thing doesn’t come out perfectly, there are twelve other foods in the queue. This weekend, in honor of my friend Sarah [...]

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