Butifarra; the Spanish sausage not the Peruvian sandwich

[qianning]

Any place that sells this in greater Boston?

[gsElsbeth]

La Tienda is advertizing it online at $35/2 packages.

[kimfair1]

What is the flavor profile of this sausage? I've rarely met ground meat and spices in tube form that I disliked, so I'd like to try it.

[StriperGuy]

The classic Spanish buttifarron is a pork blood, pork meat, and pine nut sausage. Really a slightly meaty blood. Darned delicious. I use to roast them over a fire on a stick.

[Nab]

Butifarra & manchego sandwich from Las Ventas.

It's a damn fine sandwich. Their butifarra is a touch lighter, but s'nice.

[qianning]

Not very familiar with it myself, but I believe there are many regional variants, dark, light & etc.
this entry over on this month COTM thread got me interested. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/846989

[StriperGuy]

I am accustomed to the black variety and it is not mild by any stretch:

http://www.laboqueria.com.au/products...

[MC Slim JB]

Useful page! I guess what Las Ventas and Estragon serve would be called a butifarra blanca.

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[Nab]

Going off a faded memory now, but I believe they have both negra & blanca in the case at Las Ventas - in addition to a couple of brands of txistorra and chorizo, and possibly some other snausages I'm not recalling.

[StriperGuy]

Used to hike in the mountains in Spain, take a black buttifara and skewer it on a wild rosemary twig, roast it over a fire stuffed with rosemary branches so the smoke is all rosemary-ish. When it's done pull off stick onto a spit fresh crusty roll, black oily grease running down chin. Wash the whole mess down with some killer local wine out of a bota.

[gourmaniac]

Man that sounds good. On the French side of those mountains, I remember going to a farmhouse restaurant that roasted their own baby lamb on rosemary branches. One of those meals I can still taste with my mind's tongue. On topic, I've been to Estragon several times but not La Ventas. It's time I supported this place.

[MC Slim JB]

Las Ventas is being reconfigured right now -- there's now a public pass-through to Estragon so it can be used at night as a private dining room / overflow seating -- so I think some of the retail stock has been reduced until the work is finished.

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[StriperGuy]

Saw that coming a mile away. Never quite had critical mass.

[MC Slim JB]

The larger problem was that Las Ventas had dining-in tables for several years, and then Boston ISD cited some obscure portion of its code to deny them the right to serve on the premises (which I don't think it is enforcing on many other South End places with similar licenses -- always seemed to me like the guy was just trying to solicit some graft). The tables had to go, and a lot of their lunch trade disappeared with it.

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[StriperGuy]

Buttifarron with pine nuts... yum.

[MC Slim JB]

I believe Las Ventas in the South End carries it, but I'd call first.

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[qianning]

thanks.