Flamenco and Cooking!

Yesh, 

Training from Valladolid to Sevilla and back is intense! but worth it. Sevilla is beautiful. Oh my god. Can't wait to go back for spring break. All the buildings are so colorful with their yellows and pinks with white trim. And even the food's better cause it's got more spice then up north. 

Friday I got in and wandered around the city with Dad, grabbed a beer and a tapa. It was really nice, like 80's, Friday. Mom and I did some shopping, but came up short.  Friday night we took a long walk around the city as a  family before grabbing some more late night tapas and Sangria. I fell in love with this one tapas bar that served espinacas con garbanzos (tasty cheesy spicey spniach with garbanzos) and these patitas en crema de queso picante which were basically potatoes with a delicously creamy, spicy, cheese sauce. YUM. I ate there for every meal except breakfast. 

Saturday mom and I got up early for a cooking class. First we went to the market and she gave us a little run down on spanish cuisine, mostly different meats and how they are eaten. Then we went back to her gorgeous apartment that has a spactacular view of Sevilla to start cooking. It ended up being mostly mom and I watching cause she was a bit scattered, but it was really interesting!! We made green olive and almond tapenade, gazpacho (YUM), roasted (and sherry blanched)  eggplant and peppers and cooked artichoke hearts with olive oil and garlic. I certainly had never learned how to peel an artichoke before, so that was neat. Then the last coarse was a type of seafood rice dish with monkfish, sepia (cuttlefish), rice, herbs, and homemade fish stock. You stick the whole thing in the oven with a clove of garlic and then bake it. It was tasty. Finally we learned how to make orange flan, which was awesome. Now I know how to make flan. Sweet. 

After a short siesta, me and fam did a little more shopping then went to a spectacular Flamenco show in this old, very muslim influenced, building. 

However, this morning, I forgot to set my alarm and missed my train!! It all worked out, but it was very ironic cause I was having a nightmare that the world was ending and then I woke up, and it kinda felt like it still was. The panic just continued into waking life. But, I slept most of the way home on the train, so it's all good. 

I have some pictures, but really most of them are on Dad's camera, so that will have to wait. 

Can't wait for spring break!! Ooof, so much traveling! But really fun. 

Besos,