Pasta with Shrimps and Pedro Ximenez from Eufrasio Millán. Special Recipes.

This time the special recipe comes from Topo, Eufrasio Millán, a great Scrabble player that in 2009 had the first price of the Duplicates mode at the Scrabble in Spanish World Championship. But specially: a great friend.

He prepared this recipe for me and Curro on May 21st. We had been at his home during that weekend, also with Pochola. It was great!!!

The recipe is at the video:



Update of June 8th: a friend of the Scrabble web redeltras.com, Tonecha, used oregano instead of thyme and it was great as well! : D

Montse Sánchez special recipe: Escudella

Montse Sánches is the with no discussions the First Lady of the Scrabble in Spain, and this is not for beinf the wife of one of the best players in Spain, Patxi Navarro, but by her own effort. Montse is the best female player of Scrabble in Spain.

Mentor, colleague and great club friend, is a box full of surprises. When you play with her she look so serious, with an expression of "so you dare to play with me" ;P you can hardly imagine that is a total crack (and thanks to the world championships, internationally renowned as well) telling jokes! She should go to Paramount Comedy! The pity is that I have not even recorded her on video because she usually makes jokes when we are eating and catches me with my hands full! But I´ll try to do the next time that I have the chance

Montse was part of the group celebrating the year-end in Leon and on Jan. first she had prepared us a very delicious Escudella, here is the recipe:

Montse´s Escudella:

Ingredients:

A good piece of pork backbone
A knee bone veal
300 gr. of lean beef
400 gr. white beans or chickpeas
1 black butifarra
1 cabbage
4 carrots
Potato
Rice or thick noodles
Salt
2 chicken breasts

For making the balls:

Minced meat (best mix of beef and pork, because pork is too greasy and the beef is too dull).
Salt
Egg
Garlic
Parsley
Bread crumbs

Preparing the balls:

Mix everything until obtaining a homogeneous mixture and make balls of desired size (Montse likes big ones, about 4 with this mix.) When it´s consistent, flour enough.

Preparation:

Put the cabbage, carrots and all meat less the burifarra to boil with plenty of water an hour and a half or 2 hours, add potatoes and balls, let it boils ¾ of an hour. 15 min before the end, add the previously cooked beans or chick peas and butifarra (must be thin, not fat, with the thin skin). Place the broth separately and in this lay the pasta you want, cook until the pasta is done (5 or 10 min).

Serving:

Serve the soup first and Montse recommends shredding the butifarra (black sausage) in the soup. Place the rest in 2-tray sets, one with meat and other with the vegetables and let everyone to eat as they like (only the soup first, then the vegetables ... all mixed, as each person wants!).

Shrims Cava Killing-Giants Style. Gloria Bigorra Special Recipe.

Gloria is a very good friend and also plays Scrabble.

It is still only known in the world of Scrabble in Spain, because she is a woman with no hindrances, she´s passionate about Scrabble but has refused to give the final "I do" you see, she´s at the stage of "going out with others too" Thus, she has also entered the world of swimming, even at the level of competition.

One of the things I like about Gloria is that she is always very positive, she's always telling jokes and encouraging everyone. She´s also highly collaborative ... actually, she´s game for anything! She was one of the main protagonists of the year-end party in León.



Otoh I named her “killing giants” due as I said, she hasn´t pointed out in Scrabble, she goes to tournaments to have fun (and get), is not that the competitive part is what motivates her ... then when one of the "big ones" like Topo or Patxi, play with her, they note relaxed, calm ... and she comes and bam! Win the game! D Okay, not always, not to all, but it usually happens ... hehehe I would say, but without having made any statistics about, that in every tournament that goes, wins one of the favorites.

So, now that you know her a bit better, enjoy the récipe she prepared to us at the year-end party… don´t lose her explanations! Those are very her style! :D

Shrims Cava Killing-Giants Style.

Ingredients:

Shrims middle size – the quantity depends on for how many people it is.
Salt, black pepper, olive oil and cava brut. Optional: bread.

Heat theoven, middle temperature.
Clean the shrimp (basically shave their mustache).
Place in a baking tray (in perfect formation in a single file, without crowding). Season and sprinkle with a little oil.

Drunk with abundant cava but without covering (there do not be layoffs because it raises some of them very fast and can jump from the tray).

Put the tray into the oven.
It takes between 5 to 10 minutes to be ready (no more because it can get so dry) and you notice when it´s ready because they are embarrassed and turn red. And ... that´s it!!!

Comment by Gloria: "You see it's no complicated, even I can do it! A big kiss to all and "bon profit" "

Mari Paz Yllera special recipe: chili beans. Visiting the Scrabble Club Scrabbalear!

Mari Paz Yllera, also known as Pochola at the Spain Scrabble world, is the current president of the Scrabble Club Scrabbalear. She loves Scrabble, has a great personality and is also a great travel guide! (Hem, no, this is not what she does for living.) :)

Chilli beans

>- 1 kg minced meat (beef, pork or mixed)
- 1 green pepper
- 1 large onion
- 1 can of beer (33cl.)
- 1 can of baked beans
- 2 packets of chilli
- Jalapeño pepper
- 1 jar of natural tomato and 1 jar of fried tomato sauce

Cut finely the onion and pepper and mix with ground beef, put everything to a saucepan with a bit of olive oil.
When meat is browned, add the tomatoes, two packets of chilli, salt and beer. Cook for an hour and a half. Near the end of the cooking add jalapeños diced and drained beans.

It can be served with rice, potato, in burritos ...

Soooooo easy to do! Have a good meal!


(To be continued.)

Patxi Navarro Special Recipe… Potato Omelette

Patxi Navarro, the World Champion 2009 of Scrabble in Spanish, Duplicates mode, delighted us one of the nights of the weekend in Leon with his:


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(4 people)

Cut 4 large potatoes in thinly slices. Finely chop an onion and fried both in plenty of olive oil, adding a pinch of salt. The heat shouldn´t be so high, so the potato will be a bit cooked but mostly almost fried. Beat 4 eggs in a large bowl and add a pinch of salt and some finely chopped parsley leaves. Remove the potatoes and onions and mix everything well. Place a teaspoon of oil in a large skillet and let it warm. Pour the mixture and cook over medium heat.

Other variants may change the onion for one or two zucchini (gives it a very spongy texture) or finely chopped tender garlic. You could also add to the beaten egg a half glass of milk.

Thank you Patxi!

I´m afraid the idea about placing recipes at the blog came at the end of that weekend, so I have no pics neither videos, sorry!

Special recipes. Introduction.

Yeap, I know, having that maaaanyyy webs with recipes now, why should I have recipes in my blog as well? Well, first of all, if I should think like that about travels, for example, there wouldn´t be a blog from Igotita at all! :D

This is an idea from our New Year Eve celebration in León. 10 people sharing a flat, a lot of board games having Scrabble as a king, with a tourney on between, city tours, a lot of laughs and good vibes… and excellent food every day! The clue was that, without planning, each person was responsible for giving us a sample one or more of our culinary specialties and it was a complete success!

The idea of having the recipes at the blog came from the typical “give me the recipe!” that usually goes to nowhere. So I thought: “not anymore!” heheheh “we´ll place them at the blog so we all, but also our friends and even other people we still don´t know could also enjoy our creations!” :D

For the professional chefs Reading this posts: even being amateur recipes, they are as good as for being in a good restaurant menu, so, feel free of using them but please at least give a small mention to the author and a small comment at the blog! :D ;P

Start preparing the stoves!