When Emily requested flan as her birthday dessert, building the whole menu around that Spanish favorite seemed like a good idea, and so tapas it was! And today, as I peeled pears, deveined shrimp, marinated swordfish, cooked chickpeas, shelled fresh beans, scrubbed clams, sliced mushrooms, rolled meatballs, chopped a lotta lotta garlic, so that I could grill, seer, sauté, poach, and braise, it was fun pulling everything together. And this evening, when I plated the jamón ibérico, manchego cheese, marcona almonds, apples, dates, and homemade sourdough toasts, and popped the cork on the champagne, I was really glad to have a chance to celebrate Emily with Bill and Treat and Heidi and Nadika.
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