From Ca'n Picafort to Quarantine
¡Hola!
This blog - a blog! In 2020! - has been established as a means of staving off boredom during the lockdown. But it's spirit was born in a different time, in a different place.
Sat on a Mallorcan beach last summer I began thinking about writing up recipes. Hardly an original idea I know, but lying semi-supine on the shores of the Mediterranean sea with a can of Estrella Dam daydreaming about earthenware dishes filled with albóndigas, gambas, or pulpo a la gallega it made sense.
Then the holiday ended and life got in the way and I stuffed the idea in the drawer where it sat amongst other half-baked and unrealised projects.
But with food playing an even more outsized role than usual in most of our lives, now feels like the perfect time to collate and collect the recipes that are seeing us through the early days of an extended, house-bound, unprecedented and near-global lockdown.
Recipe blogs, though, are ten a penny. So how does this one plan to stand out in a competitive market stuffed to the gils with 10,000 word odes to the author's latest batch of baked gnocchi? Playlists!
Given that few things in life are as elementally enjoyable as cooking a meal while listening to good music, it made sense to combine the two. As such, each post will contain both a recipe and a playlist. The idea being that you at home can, if you so wish, both cook and listen along.
Balaeric Kitchen 's ethos is simple. Taking utmost inspiration from the freewheeling Balearic musical idealism established by Alfredo, Jose Padilla, Leo Mas and all the other lads from way back when, pretty much anything goes. Even Queen.
Grilled sardines might be paired with a smattering spiritual jazz, a mountain of linguine could come accompanied by the cook's favourite smoothed-out Italo house records, and if you want to combine a recipe for killer chicken karaage with old Julee Cruise B-sides you can. This culinary and cultural church is a broad one.
Part real-time cookbook, part playlist repository, Balearic Kitchen is an attempt to make food writing fun again. Imagine Keith Floyd clinking glasses with DJ Harvey by the pool at Pikes and you're there.
So, from now until the end of lockdown and beyond, expect recipes, playlists, more recipes, and more playlists.
See you on the beach.
This blog - a blog! In 2020! - has been established as a means of staving off boredom during the lockdown. But it's spirit was born in a different time, in a different place.
Sat on a Mallorcan beach last summer I began thinking about writing up recipes. Hardly an original idea I know, but lying semi-supine on the shores of the Mediterranean sea with a can of Estrella Dam daydreaming about earthenware dishes filled with albóndigas, gambas, or pulpo a la gallega it made sense.
Then the holiday ended and life got in the way and I stuffed the idea in the drawer where it sat amongst other half-baked and unrealised projects.
But with food playing an even more outsized role than usual in most of our lives, now feels like the perfect time to collate and collect the recipes that are seeing us through the early days of an extended, house-bound, unprecedented and near-global lockdown.
Recipe blogs, though, are ten a penny. So how does this one plan to stand out in a competitive market stuffed to the gils with 10,000 word odes to the author's latest batch of baked gnocchi? Playlists!
Given that few things in life are as elementally enjoyable as cooking a meal while listening to good music, it made sense to combine the two. As such, each post will contain both a recipe and a playlist. The idea being that you at home can, if you so wish, both cook and listen along.
Balaeric Kitchen 's ethos is simple. Taking utmost inspiration from the freewheeling Balearic musical idealism established by Alfredo, Jose Padilla, Leo Mas and all the other lads from way back when, pretty much anything goes. Even Queen.
Grilled sardines might be paired with a smattering spiritual jazz, a mountain of linguine could come accompanied by the cook's favourite smoothed-out Italo house records, and if you want to combine a recipe for killer chicken karaage with old Julee Cruise B-sides you can. This culinary and cultural church is a broad one.
Part real-time cookbook, part playlist repository, Balearic Kitchen is an attempt to make food writing fun again. Imagine Keith Floyd clinking glasses with DJ Harvey by the pool at Pikes and you're there.
So, from now until the end of lockdown and beyond, expect recipes, playlists, more recipes, and more playlists.
See you on the beach.
YES MATE
ReplyDeleteLet's go Buh.
ReplyDelete