Piparrada

Piparrada is an egg and vegetable dish common to the Spanish and French living on both sides of the Pyrenees, the Basque people. And though it is a simple concoction of peppers and tomatoes stir-fried with eggs and sometimes enriched with pieces of grilled mountain ham and is absolutely dead easy to do, I can never make it without recalling the time I cooked it near St Jean-de-Luz for an aristocratic French lady -called Mimi in the television series, Floyd on France.

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