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Gambas al Ajillo - Famous for all the Right Reasons

Posted in Fino, Garlic, Olive Oil, Recipe, Spain, cheap meal, chile, easy, food, fried, healthy, quick meal, seafood, shrimp, spicy, tapas on Sep 10th, 2008

Perhaps the most common, and implicitly, therefore the most popular, tapa in Spain and in Spanish restaurants world-wide, gambas al ajillo, or fried garlic shrimp, is rightfully so admired. The hot tang of garlic and red pepper flake-infused extra virgin olive oil, perfectly coating tender pink shrimp (king prawns for our UK readers), makes for […]

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What to Do with a Surfeit of Jamaican Hot Peppers

Posted in Caribbean, Food Commentary, Mexican, chile, food, peppers, safety, spicy on Oct 30th, 2007

We like spicy food, we do, and we eat it quite often - all kinds - thai, indian, korean, mexican, caribbean, colombian, and yes, it almost always does painful and weird things to our lower digestive tracts as well. We read that the active ingredient in hot peppers, capsaicin, (from the latin name for the […]

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