Welcome to Salty Squid!

Two food obsessed individuals finally managed to set up a blog! The idea was born during our holidays 2 years ago in North of Spain, particularly in Bilbao and San Sebastian. We arrived, we saw and we ate! We were hooked with the variety and style of pintxos, small-sized plates of food, served as an aperitif or accompanying your (multiple) glasses of wine through the evening. Pintxos, originating in Basque bars and tavernas, have a huge socializing aspect as you're basically rubbing shoulder with your neighbours, who hopefully have had a shower.

The concept behind this blog is to prepare three or four different tapas every Friday, on a strict budget of 15 Euro. Leftovers in the fridge can be used and won't count towards the budget, so your own creativity defines the plate!Personally, we always do our very best to use local, seasonal and organic fruits, veg, meats and cheeses, and to support smaller, local shops and producers. As each portion is small, even if we need a more expensive ingredients (white truffles for example) we don't need so much of each! But of course, when it comes to basics, the walk to the store will be inevitable.

Accompanying drinks are extra, we usually get 2-3 bottles of nice and affordable wine from a local wine shop for the weekend. Asking for recommendations (to suit your own individual budget) is a good idea as decent wine shops will be able to point you in the right direction.