We were lucky enough to be renting a small apartment for our holiday, which meant we had a kitchen at our disposal when we didn't want to go out to eat. There was a fantastic food market in Palma and the local supermarket had all kinds of lovely local produce that we really wanted to try, so we jumped at the chance to cook a couple of meals for ourselves.
Oooh, pie.
For some reason, pie has become our go-to holiday food - we once found the chilled, ready-made and ready-shaped pastry on sale in France and since then it's become a bit of a tradition. You don't need to do anything to the pastry at all, which is perfect when you don't want to faff about in the kitchen for too long. We didn't have a proper pan, so B fashioned one from tin foil. Intrepid, no? The pastry case got filled with a combination of mashed avocados, local goat's cheese, tomatoes, and olives, and then the whole thing went straight into the oven. We fell asleep while it was cooking, so perhaps it was a little overdone, but let's call it caramelised.
The spontaneous napping may or may not have been caused by some cheap and potent sangria. I can neither confirm nor deny.
Another night, we had sausages from the butcher's counter of the supermarket, which cost us all of 2 euros. They were spicy with paprika and cooked in minutes.
We roasted some vegetables to have alongside - aubergines, courgettes, tomatoes and onions - and mopped up the juices with lots of chunky bread.
For our last home-cooked meal, we chose some thin cuts of lamb (as it turned out - we only knew what it was when we took it home and I looked up the words on the label in our phrasebook. Luckily we both love lamb!) and pan fried them with some chorizo, before deglazing the pan with a splash of wine to make a lovely gravy. We had roast potatoes and salad alongside.
Sneaky midnight feast....delicious, locally-made orange sorbet.
And possibly more wine. Oh dear.
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