Spanish Cuisine Tasting

Normal Wednesday. Long day at CLM, 7.5 hours in total. The best part of the day was that in my Producion y Oral Escrita (POE) class we had a sub. Not just an substitute teacher, but the funniest one you could ever ask for.He showed up to class 10 minutes late and not knowing what was going on. He said that they just told him he had to go to Aula 6 and that we would tell him what was going on from there. I didn't have to turn in my recipe because he was not collecting anything. We corrected the worksheet that we had for homework and got off topic the whole time. We spent a good 10 minutes talking about the many different ways of saying sh*t in Spanish and English.  The substitute teacher even let us out 10 minutes early! What a great start to my afternoon.

If only my night class was as fun and easy. We took a practice test with and without notes and it made me realize the crazy high expectations for this professor! She wanted us to know more than any Spaniard on the street would every know!

After class Sam and I walked to the Ayuntamiento together to meet up with the rest of the SOL group for Spanish Cuisine and tasting. When we got there, half of the group had already left to go to the place and get situated. 

We started with bread and tasting 3 different extra virgin olive oils. I think that 2 of them originated from Granada and 1 was from another town in Spain.  From there we got to sample a white wine, also from somewhere in Spain. It was actually pretty good, figuring I'm not much of a wine person. 

After the explanation of the wine we got to try 4 different meats. Going from bottom left to top left, salchicharon, jamon serrano (ham), chorizo and lomo (pork).

After trying all the meats, which were all very good and flavorful, we got to try a red wine, which I did not like AT ALL. I am definitely not a fan of red wine. After the wine we got 4 different cheeses. One of them was half cow and half something else but I cannot remember what the other half was. One of the cheeses was soaked in olive oil. All were very delicious and had a taste of age to them.

Finally we ended with 5 deserts (only 4 are pictured though) which hit the spot! The white one was a little hard and reminded me of brittle. The brown one reminded me of the cookie dough for sugar cookies, very good. The one not picture reminded me of peanut butter. The yellow one was an orange desert, and finally the chocolate, well we all know what chocolate tastes like!

After the tasting I came home and ate dinner (barely able to) because I told Mila that I would be home for dinner. I told her that I didn't need soup, which definitely helped me to not become so bloated and full. After finishing dinner I caught up on the Amazing Race and went to bed.