by Andrew Zimmern
La Tienda Premium Anchovy Fillets in Olive Oil from Catalunya by Nassari
La Tienda is the opposite of those other three food websites in that they’re very large. They sell Spanish stuff, but they also sell a lot of South American products and things like that. It’s a wonderful, wonderful website. I get a lot of really great product from them, like hams, butifarra sausage, anchovy-stuffed olives, and all the rest of that. But I’m an anchovy nut. And the best anchovies of the world come from the Cantabrian Sea. The best anchovies that are commercially available to people like you and me — without going to a dock somewhere in Morocco or Italy or somewhere else where someone is processing anchovies — are from the Cantabrian Sea, packed by hand, one by one, and sealed in olive oil and available online at La Tienda. They’re just the best.
And I serve anchovies. Actually, the recipe is coming out in my cookbook. I roast peppers in my fire in the wintertime, and I peel them and shape them a certain way in these little rolls, and I put an anchovy across the top of each one. A little bit of minced parsley and drizzle them with olive oil and a little black pepper. That’s it. It’s the thing that my friends sort of count on the most being at my house whenever they come for dinner. And they always ask me, “Oh my God, what did you do? What is so good about this?” I’m like, “It’s the anchovies.” They’re just the best. They’re not fishy or salty. They’re just heavenly. I don’t use them when I’m making Caesar salad. I mean, you’re sort of wasting the really good stuff. But whenever I’m eating anchovies as is, I use the Nassari brand from the Cantabrian Sea that I get at La Tienda.
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