SANTANYI MAGAZINE 06

Santanyí magazine 99 ··· Maria: I cooked my first dish when I got married. I was 21 years old and I was going to prepare a rice dish. But as I didn’t know that the rice corns would absorb the water, I put so much rice that there was hardly any liquid left. You can imagine the result! I like cooking and I always know what I am going to prepare the next day before I go to bed. As I don’t have any assistant I make a great use of my “thermomix” which allows me to use less oil. Ocasionally I have watched one of those cooking programs on TV and I have prepared some of the suggested dishes. I think they are quite useful for young people just starting to cook. “I am very impressed with what you are preparing Fernando, but a housewife cannot spend every day four hours just to prepare one meal.“ After four hours of work the dishes were ready to be served. Everybody agreed on the fact, that the seafood cream soup prepared by Maria was delicious and, as a matter of fact, Fernando served himself twice. Then the time had come to discuss Fernando’s creation: red mullets with uplifted, crispy scales accompanied by a selfcreated brioche, soaked in Mallorquin Soup, covered with different vegetable strips and a very thin slice of Iberian bacon, decorated with aromatic herbs from his kitchen garden. An explosion of multiple flavors allowing the perception of surprising aromas. Two unsurpassable dishes, prepared from similar ingredients but finally, completely different in their taste. do not fry the fish in a pan but pour boiling oil over it. “