Reprinted from <em>Catalan Food: Culture & Flavors from the Mediterranean</em>. Copyright © 2018 by Daniel Olivella and Caroline Wright. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC. <br /> <br /><em>Fideuà</em> is similar to paella, but it is made with short toasted noodles called <em>fideus</em>, which you can find at Hispanic markets. You can also toast the noodles yourself as described here. The dish starts on the stovetop just like paella, but then it is finished in the oven. You can tell it is done when you look into the oven and the noodles are standing up—or <em>trempant</em>, as we say in Catalan, meaning “with an erection.”

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