Three Months of Spanish Cooking

I've been very lucky this winter because I have had the pleasure of experiencing three months of delicious Spanish food. One month we seemed to be eating paella every week. Each one was a different kind and cooked by different people. New Year's Eve Paco cooked a giant paella for more than 30 people. He borrowed a large, very large paella pan and built a very large fire in the back yard. He then cooked the paella outdoors. The resulting dish was very delicious. It was somewhat smoky from the fire, but not too much. The following week I visited another friend of the family and he cooked a shrimp and seafood paella on a kitchen paella burner. Then for the next two weeks Celia cooked paella several times. Once with mostly vegetables and the other time with chicken and seafood.

In the meantime, Paco has cooked tortilla Espanol several times and he also cooked albondigas twice. Celia cooked another version of the same dish. All last week we have been eating steamed mussels Spanish style. Every day our Spanish guest went shopping and came home with mussels that he then cooked for us. This is a very easy and Delicious dish to cook and to eat.