Comments on: Mercado de la Paz, Calle Ayala, Madrid

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:08:17 +0000

kurzhaar, yes, I do like rabbit in paella. And the Teen has ordered whole roast rabbit and enjoyed it. :)

By: kurzhaar

kurzhaar — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:15:57 +0000

mmm, rabbit! One of my favourite meats…and if you are going to eat meat at all, rabbit production is ecologically sound as you can raise rabbits on grass and vegetable trimmings and the feed-to-meat conversion rate is very high. And rabbits reproduce…like rabbits!

I do a paella with rabbit and green beans (favas if in season) or perhaps artichokes. My paellas tend to be spare on the non-rice ingredients, but I use very good rice and saffron and cook over a wood or charcoal fire. The soccarat and slight smokiness is delicious.

I will roast a young rabbit, or braise it in vermouth. Most people who claim they don’t like rabbit have never eaten it. I find it tastier than most chicken, and it’s certainly better for you than factory-raised grain-fed antibiotic-stuffed chicken.

By: Franky

Franky — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:22:28 +0000

i’d serve samples of rabbit stew, call it “cuteness in a cup.” who knows, it might catch on.

By: farida

farida — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:39:58 +0000

Thanks MM, great pictures. Yes, we went to a similar market in Barcelona and Toledo and was just awed at their offerings and the very clean malls. They even have a booth for chicken where they sliced the chicken on order. And the food arrangements are just wonderful. I could have spent hours just going through each booth. Would have gotten pictures too but run out of battery on my third day. Had to depend on my daughter’s camera and the disposable kodak, :) .

By: Lava Bien

Lava Bien — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:28:33 +0000

@ Franky. I don’t believe that “conejos” (rabbits) are served on Filipino households for dinner or lunch, maybe the street corner drinking sessions dude would enjoy it, not the typical family get together.

I miss the Rabbit Stew, we use to have this almost every week back in Salamanca. Hang the meat in the basement where we keep our barrels of home made wines for about 3 days and yum, yum, yum.

I think Filipinos would love calderatang rabbit!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:59:03 +0000

Thanks John D, the reticent commenter and consistent lurker, for texting me to revise “motherload” to mother lode. I have never found the mother lode of gold or silver, hence the poor spelling skills…hahaha. Thanks JD. Footloose, it’s getting harder and harder to scoop produce for you and likeminded readers in search of the unusual… :)

By: Footloose

Footloose — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:37:06 +0000

Yep I can live there too and indefinitely. Kumato is a Market Manila scoop for me. Does it not make you rejoice to encounter a new variety or hybrid of fruit or vegetable to try? It sure does me. I think it brings more joy to people than say discovering traces of water on the surface of Mars.

By: Connie C

Connie C — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:02:46 +0000

Quillene, Jack, while some of us may prefer the clean well kept markets and for good reasons, I like the vibrancy and less sterile organic and close to the earth feel of our wet markets.

By: jack

jack — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:45:31 +0000

that would be my sentiment too Quillene… how i wish to enter one of our local markets here in the Philippines to be that clean and well kept one day! to add: with dry tiled floors and no flies

By: Quillene

Quillene — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:15:44 +0000

Haaay! If only our local markets are this well kept, and sanitary!