I am glad that you enjoyed the recipe posting. I have spoken to someone much more experienced in the "paella" field though and was told that was not a correct paella recipe. I am sorry but, I have to agree with the gentleman because he is directly from Spain and with the information he gave me concerning paella, I know he definetly knows his stuff. He e-mailed me some potent suggestions for a great paella in which I tried this past weekend and let me tell you... it was excellent. I do the cooking in my household (it's only for me since I am a loner) and I love to experiment. I am fairly young so, any advice that someone can give me is extremely excepted and appreciated. I am going to e-mail him today and ask his permission if he or I may post his recipe for paella so everyone will be able to get a real taste of what paella should taste like. I am sure the recipe I posted was very tasty but, if an opportunity comes around that someone with much more knowledge and experience is willing to share some secrets, I would snatch it up in a second. I am still glad that I brought up some warm feelings from my posting for someone. -Michelle Doug Faust wrote: > michelle, who posted thusly, wrote: > > >In the February 1st New York Newsday, there is a section on cooking and > >a recipe was featured by a gentleman named Dick Morales from South > >Hampton, Long Island on Paella. It looks great so, I figured I would > >post it for all of you. > > > > which she did, in all its glory. Ah, the unfairness of the world. the > recipe is rich with lobsters, clams, mussels and all manner of things which > are VERY HARD to find down here in the South, but flourish in those > northern climes. On the one hand, we do have that longer growing season, > and chiles are easier to find, but omigod that recipe brought back > memories. I could smell it cooking in my mind, feel the crusty bread > soaking up the flavors, taste the wine..... > > thank you michelle, even if there wasn't a chile in sight. > > doug