“Eat and drink like the locals,” is good advice and so we tried our hand out and learned how to make Sangria and Tapas one night in Barcelona. We all took our stations and cut and chopped, peeled and cooked our meal that evening. We started off by making the Sangria, a cold red wine and fruit mix. It seemed a key ingredient was more brandy. We added brandy into the pitchers of Sangria and to cook the prawns, and everything else.
We met two lovely couples, one from Germany, which during dinner we had a good conversation about the US electoral college system and how it didn’t seem to make sense, and with a couple from New York, one was a Washington Post investigative reporter who had worked on exposing the Opiod crisis. We were all good friends by the end of the evening.
The meal consisted of lots of small bites, Tapas, like cheese on tomato seasoned bread, a tomato and chili red paste on bread, olives and anchovies, potatoes, prawns, and more.
I don’t think even the 20,000 steps we have been doing each day will offset the constant “grazing” and drinking together we have been doing since we arrived. Samara even commented that eating and drinking does seem to be the national pastime. That and rooting for FC Barcelona. We are just working to fit in as a local.
We have recipes that we are supposed to be able to recreate back home, so I’m thinking there will be a Siri and David Tapas and Sangria night when we return. Sign up now.
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