they were exactly bolinhos de bacalhau! i just call them croqueas.
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Make sure you do eat your weight in Jamón! (Because we don’t want you to live with regrets! LOL…)
Also, the good olive oils will make your eyes a bit moist… don’t return home with regrets! 
Joking aside, you’ll be fine.
I sit still til August then it gets expensive (mostly the second trip).
Jul 31 - Aug 07
Sep 13 - Oct 20
Dec 18 - Jan 3
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Exactly a kilo. Sale price today eur. 17/kg. A beautiful beast with clear eyes and smells fresh. Of course I snatched it for dinner.
Barely fits my roasting tray
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We only have one life 
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It’s great that we can finally (and legally) buy jamon iberico in the US! When we went to Tickets Bar in BCN a few years ago they had one man who was slicing it for a VERY long time. Yum.
Something using this 
Ground up a few pounds of pork shoulder this AM. So either burgers or pizza. I season the pork with fennel seed, RPF, s & P for the pizza and partially cook.
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WFD: ~ Remaining Char Siu from two nights ago. I’m thinking a faux Banh Mi set-up for this, probably without bread because we’re having the potato salad. Or, on TJ’s Corn & Wheat Tortillas de mi Abuela, and pile everything up in the middle.
~ Potato Anchovy Salad from Elizabeth Minchilli.
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Gives me a great idea for tonight . I have the Agostino Recca salt packed anchovies and have new potatoes and green beans . I will combine all . I purchased a pack of prime cut New York’s from Costco about 2’’ thick . I will grill the steak and have along with that a simple grilled bread.
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Chicken and blistered green beans stirfry, sauced with Sriracha and garnished with fried peanuts, ginger, garlic and jalapenos. Spicy and delicious! The fried garnish totally made the dish - next time I’ll double the quantity!
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I had a really enjoyable, relaxing day. Errands, but then decided I needed to go to Mahoney’s Rocky Ledge just down the street for herbs and some flowers. I walked out with:
…Italian flat-leaf parsley, Genovese basil, Rosemary, Thyme
…Geraniums, Coleus (Under the Sea Fish Net), Calibrachoa (Superbells Grape Punch and Superbells Dark Red)
…Better Boy tomato plant
…Cajun Belle sweet pepper plant
I’ll plant lettuce, carrots, and radishes from seed next weekend, if it’s nice. Let’s just hope it doesn’t get too cold to hurt the herbs.
Dinner was marinated and sauteed chicken - marinated in olive oil, lime juice, minced garlic, maple syrup, salt, pepper and Aleppo pepper. Sauteed, and then the marinade was poured on top to finish cooking.
Israeli couscous in chicken stock with dried minced onion, and steamed green beans alongside. Wine. I’ll hve some sliced Ataulfo mango for dessert with tonight’s episode of “Outlander”.
Dinner and some gratuitous flowers.
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With DH’s help I managed to hobble through the market today since the frig and pantry were bare. Dinner was Mexican…chicken tacos for DH and a veggie plate for me. We made spicy mashed beans (pancetta, shallots, and jalapeño, sautéed with pinto beans, finished with some habanero jack cheese) spanish rice, and sautéed garden zucchini with tomato. The chicken was from a store bought rotisserie.
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Having gone through the warmest winter on record, I think we may be going through the coldest, wettest spring on record. Even a fairly light shower of rain is turning the bottom half of our garden into a pond. The ground must be absolutely saturated and it’s well nigh impossible to get on with the gardening.
As for dinner:
To start… asparagus, butter
To continue… navarin of lamb. Neck fillet, shallots, Chantany carrots, Jersey Royal potatoes
To continue a bit more …Aberwen cheese
To conclude… Orange posset
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Harters started a new WFD thread here for the month of May:
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That is a great idea, emglow! I’ve done the very same thing, both with asparagus, and with green beans… Fab accompaniment to your steak.
Ooooowch! You poor thing!! That sounds horribly painful. I’m impressed you are even off the couch! Those beans sound delicious…
Got some nice fava at the FM yesterday so I will make Bobbies recipe for fava bean salad , with lemon vinaigrette and shaved Manchego . Leftover pasta and the piece of prime steak from last night . I might make a simple salad also.
Ad libbed this one. Sauteed chicken & asparagus with scallions and low & slow fried garlic (aka crack).
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At one time mint jelly was often served with lamb. I never tried it. I couldn’t shake the idea it would be like toothpaste.
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It is still served but I don’t do it. I like the toothpaste comparison. Honestly can’t think of anything I’d put mint jelly on. Love mint though.
