What's your favourite tapas?

[GoldfishParade]

I'm going to do a "tapas night" to treat myself since there's no going out!

What's your favourite tapas? I seem to remember eating some kind of chorizo and honey combo, but give me your ideas of things to make!

I miss tapas. It's not the same at home

This thread has made me dig out my tapas cookbook and decide to do tapas over the weekend! The book has me great vegetable recipes in it too - green beans with cumin/coriander and fennel with chickpeas are two of my favourites.

Chopitos simplespanishfood.typepad.com/simple-spanish-food/2011/04/must-try-tapas-chopitos-tiny-fried-cuttlefish.html

@GoldfishParade

What about "dessert tapas", is that a thing?

If its not it should be!!!!

chorizo with figs
manchega and honey

and everything else mentioned above

My favorite tapas are in the bathroom. It is a mixer tapa with a sort of waterfall effect.

Aubergine with onion and pine nuts
Artichoke with prawns
Artichoke with raisins and balsamic vinegar
Garlic mushrooms and scrambled egg
Tuna croquettes
Baby broad beans with salted ham and onions

I could go on....
Haven't been over to our place in Spain for almost a year now.

This is reminding me of the lovely restaurants we know and wondering whether they have survived or not...

Fried octopus

Mussels in tomato sauce

Sardines with lemon

Fresh tuna slices with olives

Deep fried artichokes

Chorizo in red wine, garlic prawns, whitebait, patatas bravas, cured meats and olives.

Another I forgot about is 'migas', meaning crumbs. Each region has a slight variation, but its originally a shepherds dish using left over, stale bread cooked in chorizo and the oil. Sometimes with left over veg, tomatoes in it. I've also seen it done in a shot glass with a quail egg and grapes in it. Sounds odd, but the sweet grapes and salty chorizo actually goes together really well.

Jamón serrano and queso manchego is a must!
Pimientos de Padrón
You can't go wrong with huevos rotos, basically chips fried egg and chorizo all mixed up together. Delicious!

Tarta de Santiago with a glass of Pedro Jimenez!

Anything in romesco sauce.

Berenjenas, sort of fried courgette strips with honey and balsamic drizzled over.

I love this with aubergine. It has to be dark honey though - almost black.

Pimientos de Padrón are the mutt's nuts, especially when you're munching away and suddenly get a really spicey one!

There's a place here where you help yourself, then they count up your sticks at the end of the night and charge you by number.

We also have a ten-day tapa festival every year, go to different restaurants, buy a small beer and a tapa, tick it off your list, go to the next. There's also sweet tapas.... I'll have a Google and see if I can find any examples.

Morcilla with goat's cheese and caramelised onion

Outs self...

delicious

Talking of Pedro Ximénez, try it over good quality vanilla ice cream. Yum!

Patatas revolcanas

acorninmykitchen.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/patatas-revolconas-stirred-potatoes/

Yum!

Just all of it. I love tapas. If you want desert, you've underordered 😂

Mmmh. I love morcilla: holafoodie.com/recipe/cojonudo-cojonuda/

Also boquerones, almejas and mejillones.

"If you want desert, you've underordered 😂"

Or having a really good night! xx

Prawns garlic & butter
Mini chorizo & figs wrapped in ham
Cheese slices & honey
Fried Pepper roulette -:)
Now I was to go on holiday. Ahhh dreams.

Oh we´re in Gran Canaria right now and love tapas. So here goes...
1.coated fried Berenjenas (aubergine chips or disks) dipped in palm syrup
2.gambas (prawns) in hot garlic oil
3.any pinxos ( not sure about the spelling) so that means anything piled on a slice of baguette with a stick thro it.

1. calamari fried or coated and fried , with aioli or lemon
2. tortilla of course and we love the potato AND onion version- in fact my hubbie makes it so well we included our most successful recipe find under recipes we like in the TIPs section of my blog ( fromcooktochef.com )
3. look in there too for tomato bread - a favourite of ours ( pan tumaca ) and it´s so easy an versatile.
4. Another recipe I´d like to put in there is ROPA VIEJA which is a stew made with leftovers ( old stew / old clothes it means). Usually it´s chick peas plus any leftover meats and veggies added to garlic fried in oil with some sweet paprika.

Now I´m hungry ! Enjoy.

Berenjenas con Miel!

Aubergine Dumplings with really dark sticky honey, literally the nicest thing I have ever eaten!