Special dressing: Life is Life from Hermes House Band (turn player on)Mallorca is one of the three islands in front of Catalonia and Valencia soaked in the Mediterranean sea. It's such a beautiful land! The inner villages are magical and their streets and people seem to be from another time, the beach villages are shinny and lightfull... Oh, what a place! Peter from Souvlaki for the Soul has also been in Mallorca... tell me Peter, did you have a taste of sobrassada?
This Island brings me back such nice memories... I was young and naive and my boyfriend at that time was in the island doing the military service. I travelled there every time I could (only half hour plane), we explored the island avoiding the tourist routes. We were lucky to have some friends living there and they showed us all the paths leading to wild and lonely beaches were we could run and swim nudes and free! Aaawwhhhhh... sooooooo nice!
If I had to choose 5 things from the island, I would take: the blue transparent sea waters, the herbs and salt summer breeze smell, the sweet memories of beaches and old stoned watchtowers, the ensaimada and the sobrassada.
Sobrassada is a typical sausage from Mallorca, tasty and different from all other pork "sausages" like could be chorizo or salchichón (if you want to know more, follow the previous link). Its texture is softer and perfect to spread over toasted bread; so here comes today's Tapa:* Preheat oven at 150ºC.
* Slice your bread, take some of the sobrassada and spread on top. Place on a middle rack and heat until sobrassada softens more.
* Meanwhile fry in some olive oil the egg quails.
* Take the sobrassada toast out of the oven, place the fried quail egg on top and some sea salt over it.
* Eat while is still hot.
I bet you will love it if you taste it! My friends at La Tienda have some for you!
Just in case you are wondering about that old boyfriend of mine... no he is not my husband... in one of my trips and stays back in Barcelona he met a girl in Mallorca, fell in love with her and married her!!! Life is Life!!!!
This song goes so well with those memories because it was a hit back then and also it shows me that all Life experiences are for good... in the long run! Back then I cried and cried for days! But now I know I wouldn't have been happy like I am now :D
I'm submitting this post to Elly's blog: Elly says Opa for her Eat to the Beat Event. You still have time to submit your entries until June 30th, just have to find a connection between a recipe and a song, go to Elly's and see the exact instructions!
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