But first and foremost my dried Dragon fruit review:
It's really interesting! I have never tired Dragon fruit raw or fresh so I don't have much to compare it to. You see I am a dried food nut and almost always if I like the fruit raw I like it dried, even freeze dried! This particular fruit dried is very nice texture! It reminds me of a chip, or rice cracker. It's thin shape and crispy bubbles makes for a fun treat in your mouth! Now the flavor: a bit sweet, a bit bitter. I don't know if I have ever tasted anything quite like them! If you like to try new things I recommend these!
Here we go with Spain, they are out of order but I will try to explain them.
This is my mama, Sean and me in front of the train station.
Here my dad, Sean and I are at the gates of the Gardens:
We ate at the oldest restaurant in the world according to The Guinness Book of World Records:
The crazy crowded streets of Gran Vía and around the Plaza Mayor and Puerta del Sol:
The local beer, a lot like Corona or Budweiser, not too impressive.
Giggling it up in the Metro
A tapas, pub like stop: gotta love the Bulls:
There was Christmas decorations on every street!
The beautiful architecture:
In the Atocha train station there was a funny baby's face sculpture by Antonio López García
Holy Toledo! Yes we visited this ancient city and saw beautiful culture and religion!
Here is a sculpture made of MARZIPAN- yummmm! This dessert is made of Almond and honey and sometimes egg yolk. In Spain it is most popular during Christmas as it is a religious treat made by Nuns and Spaniards claim it's origin to be in Toledo.
The Santo Tome church:
Fat Santa in the street market-haha:
Eating underground!
The Castle in Toledo:
The Train station in Toledo:
Chips and Guacamole at a Mexican Restaurant!!!! So good, the guac had curry and tumeric in it- yummmmmmm!
My Pork with rice and veggies!
The best steak I ever had! With potatoes and brussel sprouts!
At the Mexican restaurant Surpriso Y Surpriso!
My staple bfast- I bought some Activia yogurt in new flavors and ate it with All Bran, a banana, and dried Cranberries, Peach juice and Coffee!
The hallway of our Piso!
Atoche train station:
TAPAS!!!!!! This is Roasted Red Peppers stuffed with ground pork and covered in a creamy tomato sauce! Tasted like meatloaf!
This is also pork, skewered with a tasty rub of spices!
This was one of my favorite meals from Museo De Prado!!!! Garbanzo bean soup in yummy broth with a side fruit salad with kiwi, orange, melon, pom. A WW slice and a little bite of another bread and salad with black olives, beets, mix greens, and cucumber!!!!! Yummmmm! With a glass of white wine:
Roaming the streets near our Piso:
Inside a church:
The bread at tapas:
Us at listening to Flamenco:
Well there are more pictures on my computer but this otta be enough for one night! But if not you can go here http://moourl.com/spain1, http://moourl.com/spain2, http://moourl.com/spain3 to see my older Spain posts. Hope you all enjoy my trip pics and hope you get to visit Spain if you haven't already! Good night all!
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This is us before we left in out NEW apt ( not quite finished decorating yet)
This is Sean in the airport in Madrid at baggage claim
This a wine store-i do love wine!
Speaking of wine here is the wine at lunch at Cafe De Oriente which was a really nice restaurant near the Palace and we had the plate of the day (most restaurants offered this and it was usually cheaper than ordering an entree and a drink because it included both plus dessert and a starter) below is my starter salad, lettuce with roasted red pepper, cherry tomatoes and fresh tuna olive oil and white wine vinegar- kind of the staple salad- and my entree: Ham with sauteed mushrooms-so good, mushrooms are in season right now in Spain so they were everywhere
For dessert I had a bite of Flan
here we are in front of the Palace
we walked everywhere and so here are some of my window shopping pictures...
Ham legs and cheese, yes they really have these legs hanging- kinda gross I know.
Lots of Christmas goodies!
We got hungry mid afternoon one day and stopped by a vegetarian fast food joint, it was very good and refreshing from all the ham! I had a salad with garbanzo beans, olives, hot peppers, cucumber, fried cauliflower, tabouli, and a falafal ball on the side
I of course wanted to go to super mercado and see what it was like. They are HUGE and full of much more than just food and paper towels; they have 9 floors of household goods, clothing, purses and accessories, tools, furniture, appliances and much more! Here are some things I saw in the grocery section:
Their shopping baskets are genius; first off they roll, they are smaller than the metal cart you see above and in the USA, and they are pretty cute too!
Here are a few crustaceans and other sea creatures :)
I picked up some goodies to have for snacks and breakfast- Activia in 2 flavors I have not seen in the USA; Muesli and Kiwi (the kiwi was a bit artificial tasting, but the Muesli was very tasty and had chunks of nuts and cereal in it), dried garbanzo beans (these had a wonderful flavor and the texture similar to a nut but crunchier and they became powdery when you chew them), and some dried prunes . I have never really had prunes so this was a test run and I must say they are delicious but I bet the fresh ones that you ladies discuss are better.
There were a ton of Christmas lights and trees set up in all the main squares all over Madrid
Here I am after a good day of shopping and ready to shower and go out on the town to find some good food and drink!
We all went out for dinner to a very reasonably priced restaurant with fancy decor and simple but beautiful food, here is our table before the food came-full of wine of course
this was my starter dish, it was not very tasty but it sure looks good; shrimp with green beans, carrots, tomatoes and chives in a mustard seen olive oil.
Well wfewww- that was a long one! But if you can believe it that is not all, probably not even half! So I will be doing another BIG Spain post soon! And I will try to get to my eats from today before I hit the sack!
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