The food in Spain has a lot of importance. Some of the world’s stop chefs are Spanish and one of the latest trends is go on a trip, which includes the best places to eat great typical food. I think the most well known food from Spain are Spanish omelette, paella and Serrano ham.
The Spanish omelette is just an omelette with potatoes but the taste is better if we add onion. Some people put in other things like red pepper or chorizo that is a kind of pork meat and is dry. People eat it throughout all the year. It’s very common to have when someone organizes an informal dinner in his or her house or like an aperitif, but in that case we eat just a little piece. It can be eaten cold and it’s the perfect companion for a glass of beer. Also sometimes it’s tasted better the day after to be cocked.
It’s important to know that the really good ham is not the one, which we usually eat. This one is only for very special moments for the major of people except for the rich. It comes from a black pig that grows up in limited farms in the southeast of Spain. It’s so good that it isn’t necessary have it with anything else, like a piece of bread. It’s perfect like an aperitif with a glass of red wine or beer. Personally I think it’s better with a glass of wine and much better with good company to share it with. The other ham it’s good too but not so much as the really good one, the tasted and the appearance are very different. This one is perfect for sandwiches or to fried it with a piece of garlic and put them over boiled vegetables. If you want to taste the really good ham, you should be informed about which places have it.
Paella is very typical from the middle east coast and it’s perfect in every season of the year. There are a few kinds so it can be fish, vegetables or meat. The best has shrimps, crayfishes, lobsters, blue mussels and clams. It’s a typical Sunday lunch almost if it’s a family lunch. When the summer is coming a lot of people enjoy going to restaurants in front of the beach while they eating a paella and taking a sunbathe. The good chefs spend a lot of time making it so it’s important not to be in a hurry when you go to a restaurant.
Other typical meals less known are gazpacho, bread with tomato and rice with milk. The first is like a tomato soap but it has also green and red pepper, onion, garlic, water, olive oil and bread. Summer is the best season to have it, as it’s served cold, it’s very refreshing. Gazpacho usually doesn’t have the same taste in all the places because every housewife has her own secret to make it more delicious and special. The most modern chefs try to make it modern so in some restaurants they put in the gazpacho little pieces of melon, shrimps, Serrano ham or boiled egg.
The second comes from the northeast. You can use all kind of breads but the best is rustic bread. To make it you have to cut a mature tomato in two halves and rub it over the bread and then add some olive oil. The bread is less dry and ready to have it with cheese, ham or both together. It’s ideal in any moment of the day, lunch, dinner and also breakfast.
The last is a dessert and is very popular in the north. The ingredients are very simply just rice, milk, sugar and cinnamon but the way to do it spends a lot of time. An advice, if you want to eat it, it will be better if you don’t eat to much before or you will feel very full.
Obviously there are more typical meals but it’s difficult to talk about all of them. If you go to any restaurant in Spain you will find them so if you won’t you will be in the wrong place. A good way to taste most of them is going to a restaurant or bar where they serve “tapas” or “pinchos”. If you choose this option you could enjoy a great lunch or dinner with very different savours and sensations.
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