{"id":1295,"date":"2014-11-17T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1295"},"modified":"2014-11-17T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T06:02:11","slug":"week-46-office-and-paella","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1295","title":{"rendered":"Week 46: Office and paella"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of this week’s pictures are from the office where I work, and from a course in cooking arroz alicantino<\/em>, or paella, that we went to on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

46_1<\/strong>
\nA scene from home to start the blog. The cat drinks from the dog’s water bowl while the dog protests outside:
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46_2<\/strong>
\nTuesday night we had another wine tasting at the office, this time presented by a bodega from our own Alicante province, El Sequ\u00c3\u00a9<\/a>. The bodeguero is passionate about his wine philosophy and is always happy talking about his wine and about wine in general:
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46_3<\/strong>
\nThe people in the audience listen attentively:
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46_4<\/strong>
\nContemplating the wine:
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46_5<\/strong>
\nSmelling the wine:
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46_6<\/strong>
\nTasting the wine:
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46_7<\/strong>
\nAfterwards, we eat. Philippe is actually the man in charge of the food service at our office:
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46_8<\/strong>
\nAnimated conversation:
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46_9<\/strong>
\nThe construction of our new office building is proceeding at a fast pace, with the inauguration ceremony set for November 17th, and the first occupants moving in during January. Work goes on day and night to have at least the ground floor ready for the inauguration:
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46_10<\/strong>
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46_11<\/strong>
\nSerious landscaping:
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46_12<\/strong>
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46_13<\/strong>
\nAs usual, I was out cycling every morning, before going to work. One morning the sunrise along our beach was particularly photogenic:
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46_14<\/strong>
\nFriday night we went to eat at Los Charros, our local tapas place which I had not visited since April for a variety of reasons. Fortunately, nothing has changed:
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46_15<\/strong>
\nWhen you order a beer at Los Charros, you get a free tapa, such as this stuffed tomato:
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46_16<\/strong>
\nOr one of these mini-open faced sandwiches:
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46_17<\/strong>
\nThe main dishes at Los Charros are plentiful and cheap, ranging from 4 to 8 Euros. This is not light food, which is why I have not been here for some months. On this occasion, I ordered codillo<\/em>, the Spanish version of Germany’s Eisbein<\/a><\/em> or Poland’s golonka<\/em>:
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46_18<\/strong>
\nOn Saturday morning we attended a course in making Alicante rice, commonly known as paella (although paella is just one kind of rice dish made here). The instructor, a chef called Mario Pi\u00c3\u00b1ol, starts with the basics, explaining the types of rice grown in the Valencia region:
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46_19<\/strong>
\nThe ingredients are lined up; here, seafood:
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46_20<\/strong>
\nCubed chicken and rabbit:
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46_21<\/strong>
\nThe heart of each rice is the broth, or caldo<\/em> which, for best results, must be made from scratch. Here, Mario chops the vegetables:
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46_22<\/strong>
\nRed wine is added, partly for taste, partly for colour:
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46_23<\/strong>
\nThe caldo<\/em> is made with fish pieces (often less desirable ones such as heads), vegetables, wine, herbs and spices:
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46_24<\/strong>
\nSwinging the pot:
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46_25<\/strong>
\nStirring the pot, with an interested onlooker:
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46_26<\/strong>
\nMario is not a cook who does things “by the eye”. He measures and weighs the ingredients. Olive oil, for example–30 ml per person:
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46_27<\/strong>
\nOne of the key moments. The caldo<\/em> is added to the rice:
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46_28<\/strong>
\nOnce the rice has cooked enough, it is removed from the caldo<\/em>:
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46_29<\/strong>
\nThe chicken and rabbit pieces are fried:
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46_30<\/strong>
\nRabbit and rice:
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46_31<\/strong>
\nPutting the finishing touches on the paella de carne<\/em>:
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46_32<\/strong>
\nPaella de carne<\/em>, ready to eat:
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46_33<\/strong>
\nPaella de mariscos<\/em>, ready to eat:
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Most of this week’s pictures are from the office where I work, and from a course in cooking arroz alicantino, or paella, that we went to on Saturday morning. 46_1 A scene from home to start the blog. The cat drinks from the dog’s water bowl while the dog protests outside: 46_2 Tuesday night we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1102,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1295\/revisions\/1296"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}