That caught your attention, didn’t it?
Traveling back to Spain and its culinary wonders, today I’m going to talk about tetilla cheese. It’s called that because it’s shaped like a breast. It’s a Galician specialty, made from cow’s milk and is smooth and creamy. I don’t know how easy it is to find outside Spain, but it’s worth hunting down when you are there. It’s readily available in any supermarket, unwrapped and sitting on refrigerated shelves. Tetilla can also be known as perilla (because it could also be a ‘pear’ shape).
Here is a website on cheeses in Spain with more detailed descriptions of tetilla: Cheese from Spain
In Santiago de Compostela, tetilla is proudly displayed in food shop and restaurant windows in the old part of the city. Each window tries to lure you in with their decadent displays of octopus, cakes (tarta de Santiago) or tanks of live lobster. Below are some photos.
Octopus, clams, razor clams, scallops, tetilla, pimientos del Padrón...
Lobsters! Bogavantes and langostas, to be specific.
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