Pimientos de padron

Pimientos de Padron

For the last two years or so, as I've been reading more food books and cooking more food, I've read about pimientos de padron a number of times, and they've always sounded delicious. I read about them first in Spanish Country Kitchen (still one of my favorite cookbooks), and then again in Calvin Trillin's Feeding a Yen, and they sounded delicious: tiny green peppers, cooked simply with olive oil and salt, with a wonderful smoky taste.

But I could never find them anywhere!

Until last Saturday, when we went to the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. And just as we were about to leave, I spotted a stand--Happy Quail Farms--with a bunch of peppers, and with bags of pimientos de padron. I bought two bags, and that night I dropped them in some hot olive oil until their skin blistered, then dusted them with sea salt. And they were delicious!

Comments

[Garth]

[this is good] Baby make me pimientos de padron!

[btrott]

With a baby frying pan!

[Samuel Mikel Bowles]

As American living in Spain it's funny to read of an American seeking out the food I can find in nearly every tapas bar when I am here looking for a jar of JIF Creamy Peanut butter. :)


Yes, I know, Mediterranean diet and all that, Spanish gastronomy is great but sometimes you just want a little bit of comfort food. Even if that means heavily processed, highly sugared fat squeezed from a nut. And even if "sometimes" means nearly everyday at snack time.

[btrott]

Yeah, I suspect that if I had access to the pimientos de padron everywhere I looked, I'd eventually get tired of them. :) That said, I bought two more bags of them this weekend, so I'm pretty well hooked!

[Daryn]

just got back from another trip to spain where I got a fix of my favorite common basque pintxos: piquillo peppers stuffed with tuna. Maybe it's just being there, but even the best canned tuna i can find here, and piquillo's from the spanish table, just don't compare..

[Crom74]

[this is good]

Food finds are good.

Welcomes to the Meat group...!