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Cooking Paella

Ever since our over indulgent Spain trip over easter, where we virtually ate non-stop, we still mention our favourite paella (Spanish rice) once in a while going "ooh and ahh" and oh man, how could anyone ever forget our two HUGE paellas where the Spanish waitresses had to join an extra table just so it could accomodate those two pans among our many side dishes as our jaws dropped and while they giggled away :/ *shudder*

anyway so my friend Karen sent me a diy paella recipe which she found and improvised.. assuring me "it's very easy one!" and... truly it was!

We followed the recipe.. well sort of (with a bit of fumbling in the middle) but! Managed to end up with a big pan of mussels paella and 3 very happy diners. Lucky Quek.. he was supposed to be our guinea pig for the night.

The initial unglam look.. looks like yellowy porridge and we got a bit worried.

Ali: eh how ah.. no taste leh! Oyster sauce can or not?
Me: huh?! cannot la! that one chinese, this one spanish! eh wait what's beside the oyster sauce... white wine?
Ali: ya! shall we?
Me: ok just pour la!


Ali: let's pour all in the mussels too.. including all the white wine sauce in the packet.

The "porridge" started to soak in a pan full of white wine.. umm..
Ali: eh I scared I get drunk how...?
Me: nvm la..it's your house anyway. Quek don't have to carry you home...

And then we mixed and mixed everything...

TADA!! =)

It worked!

We seriously think it's the white wine that did the trick coz somehow it brought out the flavour. And of coz the 500g of mussels did the job too. We've thought of how to improvise it further in our next attempt. And Quek shall be in charge of Sangria.. to make it a full spanish meal!

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