We think it is important to learn as much about a country as possible when you move to Spain. What better way than to learn how to cook the local dishes!! We started relatively simple by planning an evening with tapas. Ever since we announced the fact that we want to move to Spain our birthdays and Christmas gifts all had to do with Spain in some way. We received a nice tapas cookery book and we also had some typical Spanish dishes which can be used to prepare or present tapas.
So now it was time to use these presents and to enjoy some of the nice dishes. After we went through the books and some sites on the internet we had made a short list of dishes we wanted to make. We chose to make some spicy gambas, aioli, baguette with salmon and egg, Serrano ham, fried risotto balls and of course the one and only tortilla!
We hardly had any problems preparing all the different dishes. The only thing we couldn't get right was the aioli. We really followed all the steps mentioned in the recipe but it didn't taste as it should at all! We decided to throw the bad aioli away and just added some garlic to mayonnaise, this was very tasty! When we finished cooking, after two hours!!, the table was full with small plates full with lovely dishes. How are we ever going to finish that all?? Luckily, everything tasted great, even Anna liked the spicy gambas! Even though we did not finish everything we thoroughly enjoyed our Spanish night. I am sure it will not be the last time we have such a night!
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