I had an unexpected visitor yesterday – the postman. With a box. And when that happens to a food blogger, it’s highly likely that it’s filled with delicacies from a land far off. As soon as I saw yellow tape with ‘Correos’ written all over it, my heart skipped a beat. I wasn’t expecting this for at least a few weeks! My friend Debjani from Madrid sent me a box full of Spanish goodness.
I opened the package, trying to guess with every rip of the tape (thank God I had the cutter handy for once) what the contents of it might be. There was definitely some lavender that smelled very potent. And then some more delicious smells of orange and paprika got me very excited. As I opened the box, I was oohing and aahing at every single thing: Valrhona cocoa powder, bittersweet smoked paprika, candied orange, lavender, adorable porcelain spoons! Right from the packaging, to the contents, to the care taken to give me a taste of Spain, Debjani put together the most thoughtful package. Thanks, Debs!
The candied orange went straight into my mouth (saved a tiny piece of it for the picture above) while I thought of all the things I’d do with these new ingredients. Definitely waiting for figs to replicate Debjani’s lavender figs with ricotta, and the cocoa will go into Alice Medrich’s brownies.
If this is Spain in a box, I can not wait to experience the country.