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Jamon & Citrus Tapas - Let's Taco Bout It Blog

Jamon & Citrus Tapas

Recipe inspired by “The Story of Ferdinand the Bull” As the years went by Ferdinand grew and grew until he was very big and strong. All the other bulls who had grown up with him in the same pasture would fight each other all day. They would butt each other and stick each other with…

Spanish Tortilla | Let's Taco Bout It Blog

Spanish Tortilla

Recipe inspired by “Pippi Longstocking” by Astrid Lingren “Once upon a time in Spain there was a little bull and his name was Ferdinand. All the other little bulls he lived with would run and jump and butt their heads together, but not Ferdinand. He liked to sit just quietly and smell the flowers.” He…

Waldorf Salad

Recipe inspired by the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream…

Champagne Sabayon

Recipe inspired by the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” “At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving…

Cauliflower Soup

Cauliflower Soup

Recipe inspired by the book “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood “But what did it mean?” I say. “Which?” he says. “Oh. It meant, ‘Don’t let the bastards grind you down.’ I guess we thought we were pretty smart, back then.” “I force a smile, but it’s all before me now. I can see why…

Scallops Provencal

Recipe inspired by the book “Le Petit Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “You’re beautiful, but you’re empty…One couldn’t die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she’s the one I’ve watered….

Ratatouille Niçoise

Recipe inspired by the book “Le Petit Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems……

Soupe au Pistou

Recipe inspired by the book “Le Petit Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “Indeed, as I learned, there were on the planet where the little prince lived– as on all planets– good plants and bad plants. In consequence, there were good seeds from good plants, and bad seeds from bad plants.” “But seeds are invisible. They…