Barcelona 8
Posted: November 26, 2011 Filed under: Food Porn, rants, restaurants, travel | Tags: Barcelona, Boqueria, Cooking Ideas, food porn, Olivias, Pizza, raval, Ravalo, Spain, travel Leave a comment »It was our last day in barcelona and it all went astray. The husband finally got a full blown stomach flu and was down for the count. Or rather puking his guts out.
I went out to get to do some last minute stuff in the afternoon. Namely check out the kitty garden and grab some lunch. The kitties, it turns out, were not accessible and I could only stare at them longingly throughout the fence. So I went to read a mag and then walk around.
Wine Shopping
Posted: November 26, 2011 Filed under: travel, wine | Tags: Barcelona, Markets, Penendes, small vintners, Spain, travel, vin natural, wine Leave a comment »We travel for wine. Some people think this is nuts but we bring back cases of wine when we travel and not the crap from duty free or $50 ++ bottles. We buy bottles to cellar and wines that are not imported. Something special and you don’t have to pay a fortune for it. Generally, you pay to have your wine aged for you and ready to go. You can get an exceptional bargain if you buy it and hold it yourself.
We have a nice bodega across from our flat but unlike some other merchants, they are a bit confused by us. We grabbed some great wines but were excited to happen upon a Penedes regional market set up over the weekend outside the Boqueria. You got a glass for a euro and could taste away. We were on our way to grab lunch but stopped for a taste and told them we would be back in an hour.
We also checked out the foodstuffs. Cheese and jambon and dried mushrooms, which I can’t figure out if they will trigger my luggage so I had to skip, and honey and stuff
Barcelona 7
Posted: November 25, 2011 Filed under: Food Porn, restaurants, travel | Tags: Barcelona, Carmelitas, Markets, restaurants, Sagrada Familia, Silenus, travel Leave a comment »We did our 1 touristy thing today and went to the Sagrada Familia. I hate churches and was sorta shamed into going but this is not a regular church.
We bought our tix online and picked them up at the ATM but once we got there and to the elevator, found out that we did not have the 2,50€ passes for it and it was sold out. Kinda irritating cuz there was no option to buy online and the husband was disappointed. No worries, it was a sunny day so I took some pics.
Barcelona 3
Posted: November 22, 2011 Filed under: Food Porn, restaurants, travel | Tags: Barcelona, Cal Pep, restaurants, seafood, tapas, travel 1 Comment »It rained all day. I also was dumb and was up til 6am and slept til 12:30. We got up and ended up having an average menu del dia across from the MBAC museum. I forgot my phone so pics are on the husbands and really who cares. We did a major wander around then stopped to grab wind and stuff at the boqueria, but all the stalls were closed and the wine shop was having the floors refinished.
A fail.
Back at the ok corral, aka apt, we decided what to do for the night and I took a short nap.
Since it was rainy the husband decided we try cal pep or bust figuring line would be low. Or at least lower than they say.
Barcelona 2
Posted: November 21, 2011 Filed under: Food Porn, restaurants, travel | Tags: Barcelona, Eating out, food, Imprevist, Kaiku, Slow food, Spain, travel Leave a comment »We actually got up and went to lunch today. Goal was Kaiku but our only choice was an outside table when we called ahead before we left. All good, it’s 66 degrees, right. Ummm. Yeah. It is windier and colder at the beach. But if the windsurfers could deals so could we. 
Barcelona 1
Posted: November 20, 2011 Filed under: Food Porn, restaurants, travel | Tags: Barcelona, Boqueria, drinking, Eating out, mam I teca, Spain, tapas, travel Leave a comment »Barcelona 1.
After a crappy sleepless flight and a delay in getting in to our rental flat we set off briefly while waiting for The flat be cleaned to the Boqueria. We are literally outside the door of the Boqueria and score, across the street from a small wine vendor.
With time to kill waiting for the apt to get cleaned we set off to get food. Instead of buying foodstuffs we hit Bar central to eat.
Mushroom Eggs Florentine
Posted: October 20, 2011 Filed under: recipes | Tags: easy, Eggs, eggs florentine, fancy, manchego, milk, Mushrooms, oven, recreating restaurant food, spinach, travel, winner 2 Comments »ZOMG! Seriously. Make this. This has been on my deck for a while now. I had something similar in Buenos Aires in August that I wanted to recreate. I really really like trying to recreate food had while traveling. While I will never ever attempt or try or claim my Arzak items, I’ve been pretty ace with spanish tapas and Spanish Moroccan food, particularly stuff had in Madrid. I think that is why I like going there so much. It always leaves me with something or two to recreate at home.
Anyhoo, so I wanted to make this starter dish I had at Demuru. It really was all I could eat even though it was a starter and I left my main virtually untouched. It was all creamy mushroomy goodness with an egg baked and poached inside. I can make that!
But first I needed individual baking dishes. That was harder than it sounds. I just wanted nice ones that were not fugly. And then what size? 6 oz, 8 oz, gah. I no know! I settled on these from Crate and Barrel . They were well priced and at least white. Then I just put off making for fear I’d do wrong. Dumb.
So yeah, I finally made it and it was super. This would also be a great easy starter for a dinner party done in small ramekins with one egg. It looks fancy, but is way easy.
