Unintended tapas party

As any food blogger will know, getting carried away in the moment and forgetting to take photos is disastrous. Worse still is waking up bleary eyed the next morning and looking at the photos you did take, the image quality almost as blurry as your head. There were many pretty and delicious courses in this meal, but only a few have equally pretty images to match. The 'unintended' comment is because what was supposed to be a BBQ became an indoor event due to rain, each course simply handed over as it was completed with everyone standing at the breakfast bar. The whole meal, actually, was different than planned, the 3 hour line up to buy live spot prawns simply too daunting. 

Menu

Kale buds pan fried with saffron and butter

Green beans with soy, chili, garlic and sesame

Potatoes cooked in coconut milk with Thai spices

Potatoes with lemon, garlic and oregano

Dover sole with cilantro, coconut and chili

Halibut cheeks with saffron and chives

Prawn sugar cane skewers

Tapas party part 2

Patatas Bravas in two parts

Forgetting to take a photograph of something edible when you have a food blog is tantamount to criminal and highly stupid. I did remember to take a photo of the separate parts, however and so we have a sort of running picture documentary rather than the actual finished dish.

Tapas party part 1

In an ongoing effort to get rid of the excess food accumulating in my fridge and freezer and wanting to pay back a friend for a recent dinner, I decided to throw a sort of tapas / mezze meal. Finding such exotic delicacies as crayfish from Ikea and beet vodka smoked salmon lurking in the freezer, I fancied the evening would have a wonderful Spanish vibe with me feeling domestic and plentiful bearing plate after plate of amazing tastes to grateful hungry guests.