Daring Cook's August Challenge

Oy. This is my first cooks' challenge. I did it on time, wrote it up, then lost it in a computer freeze, and never got around to re-writing it. Bad, Bad Yummy Nutter. Well, here's the super-truncated version.

This challenge was for a paella with cuttlefish and mushrooms. The recipe is here here.

We don't have cuttlefish in these parts, so I made it with scallops.

Here's the sofregit, bubbling away on the stovetop.

Here's the parboiled brown rice. I wanted to mix brown rice and white rice, but they cook at different rates, so I parboiled the brown rice first. Unfortunately, they still cooked unevenly. I cooked until one kind of rice was no longer crunchy, and another kind came out a little...squishy. More experimenting needs to be done.



I made the allioli in a blender.
It tasted bitter, so I added another 1/4 cup of canola oil, and then it was lovely.



Here's the final mix on the stove.


And here it is, "plated"...err...Ziplock containered...pre-portioned for dinners and lunches to come.