As soon as we learned the theme we went out in search of a cookbook. Bloody hell they're pricey buggers! We settled on a lovely one with nice glossy pages, and beautious photos, that will surely get grubby as it is put to good use. Our contribution was a wee puffed pastry filled with pine nuts, raisins and spinach, as well as Banderillas.
Banderillas are little nibbles made up of skewered pearl onions, pickles, olives and anchovies rolled around a caper. We made a trip to one of our favourite shops to pick up the goods we needed and I noticed that they had tins of anchovies that were already rolled around capers! What luck! That was sure to shave a good ten minutes off of my busy day. I picked up a few tins and off I went to prepare my goodies.
Here's the thing. The photograph on the packaging doesn't always match what is inside. Example:
Notice the nicely rolled anchovy with nothing in the middle? Yeah, I didn't save 10 minutes. Lesson learned.
Anyway, everything was delish... take a look at the goodness below. Christ, Ron and Liz didn't even put all the food they prepared out!
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