Tapas: Stuffed Piquillos and Catalonia y Champignones

These tapas dishes are all about the ingredients--piquillo peppers, catalonia sausage, spanish tuna. All these can be purchased at the Spanish Table. Draeger's foods in Los Altos also carries the piquillo peppers.

• Bajamar Piquillo Peppers -- piquillos have a distinctive flavor and aroma & the ones from Bajamar are always really good.


• Hijos de Jose Serrats White Tuna in olive oil with piquillo peppers. Wouldn't have to use the kind packed with a piquillo pepper, but why not? This is *great* tuna.


• La Espanola Catalonian Sausage--a flavorful spanish white sausage, also great with with white beans.

Catalonia y Champignones

1. Slice 1 catalonia sausage & quarter slices.
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3. Quarter small mushrooms.


4. Mince 1/4 of a small white onion.


5. Saute sausage, shrooms & onion in olive oil in a small cazuela.


6. Season with salt, pepper, red chile flake.


7. Crack 2-3 eggs over the top.


8. Garnish with parsley.


9. Bake until the egg is cooked to taste.

Stuffed Piquillos

1. Mix diced onion, high-quality white tuna, capers,diced piquillo, mayo.


2. Stuff piquillo peppers with tuna salad mixture.


3. Place in baking dish & bake until heated through.