Spanish Roasting

One of the reasons I haven't posted much lately is holidays - been in Spain for example. But even there, I couldn't stop the roasting habit! Picked up a maize fed chicken one Sunday and some local white onions and lemons, and then went and foraged around the olive groves where we were staying for herbs and other goodies to flavour it. Ended up with something pretty tasty I have to say:



Bit fuzzy this picture, but the best shot of the sauce. The onions and herbs (mostly thyme) were inside the cavity of the bird. Used some local wine to enhance the sauce and just served it warm with some crusty bread and salad.

Fist time I've been to the Spanish mainland, and felt quite at home there, although not perhaps as at home as in Italy of France. Not the best cuisine in the world perhaps, but there was great quality produce to be had that's for sure. Oddly enough we never really found any bread of the quality you can find so easily in France or Italy.

The best thing we did find was undoubtedly a fresh goats cheese that we first tried in a shop in the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa. Our stilted conversation with the owner whilst trying to find something for a light lunch eventually led him to take a plate out of the fridge which was covered with a bowl, and underneath was a wonderfully subtle fresh cheese. We found it later again in other shops, sometimes cows milk as well as goats, and although never quite as good as the first one we'd tried still very tasty nonetheless. I never did find out what is was called!