It's time to have a fiesta!

Hola everybody! This week I am now going to venture into the personally unknown territory of Spain. We will just have to learn together.

I have had the hankering to go to Spain for a few years now. It seems everywhere I have the desire to go they loves their food. Is everybody seeing a pattern? I know I am.

When looking for foods to make from a different county, I tend to try to find the more traditional recipes. I like to find the food that isn't readily known and is authentic. No, I will not be talking about Spanish rice (which, by the way, is just rice and salsa).

Paella

Here's what I found-- Gazpacho is a very popular Spanish dish. It's a cold vegetable soup that people eat on those hot summer days. It's very different for me because I'm used to hot soups. I bet it's still a nice way to feel refreshed and cool down. I also found Paella! Paella is my kind of dish. It's a slow cooked rice, vegetable, and meat dish. The great thing is that there isn't just one way to make it. Anyone can make it to fit their own taste. I would probably make it without seafood. Even though the ingredients vary, the two ingredients that are key are saffron and olive oil.

One of the weird things I found about food has nothing to do with food someone would eat. One of the odd fiestas in Spain is the Tomatina Tomato Fight. It happens on the last Wednesday of August. People gather in the streets from 11am-1pm and have-for lack of better words-a food fight. I can't say that I would be interested in going to Spain and having random people smash tomato in my face, but maybe with some friends it would be fun!

Well, that's all for today. Adios amigos!