Course 1: Low and Slow Scrambled Eggs (recipe from a self-proclaimed "girl who loves bacon but can't get fat" aka supermodel Chrissy Teigen aka John Legend's fiancée!), bacon, a baguette and freshly squeezed orange juice!!!!! We finally got a juicer (this one) -- (ultimately provoked by my and Becca's stay in Barcelona, where our airbnb hostess had one and we just got some oranges from the local market and had the besssssstttttttt morning juice with our breakfasts.) I know this sounds super snotty but I can't help it, fresh OJ is so delicious!!!!! I don't want cartons again!
Anyway. 8 oranges (one bag, at least in terms of from Waity here -- sometimes we do grocery delivery and it's the best. Don't judge. We don't have cars and we can pay to get other people to lug around our heavy grocery choices, likes 5kg of basmati rice or 6 giant water bottles or other heavy things. Waity has a great selection and gives you free delivery if you spend £50 or more, whereas Ocado (which also has a great selection) charges you for delivery, so that's kind of annoying. That was a long parenthetical. Are you ready to go back to the sentence? Reminder: 8 oranges...) yielded about 16 ounces of juice, which was good for 3-4 small glasses. Now that I think about it, 8 oz is a pretty normal sized glass, but still. Enough and delicious.
After some major cleaning around the house including organizing, consolidating and trashing things from our insane wine&cooking vinegars/oils/sauces section (see bacon picture), bakery cabinet and refrigerator, we headed off to Saturday's Booth's produce market down the street down the street to get some ripe avocados to make successful guacamole, as well as a few other fresh fruits and veggies.
By then, it had of course started raining, so we grabbed some hooded jackets and headed to Potter's Field Park, where Rioja Tapas Fantasticas was going on. I love our home. Such a great area!! If you haven't come to visit already, you should :) We had some Rioja to complement all our tapas, which were:
Course 2: Calamari from
It definitely wasn't the greatest I've ever had, so I wasn't too excited about it.
Course 3: Gambas from Donostia Social Club.
Course 4: Scallops with tomatoes and black rice with squid.
Course 5: Chorizo sandwich
Course 6: Churros con chocolate from Churros Garcia. Delicious.
Courses 7-199: Okay. It's confession time. We didn't really eat 199 courses. But we participated in a Guinness Book World Record Attempt! Kinda. (Sidenote: did you realize that the Guinness Book of World Records is actually associated with Guinness the beer company??) Really, it was an attempt to have the longest tasting course menu -- 193 courses in 24 hours. You can check out pics and descriptions of some of the courses on this liveblog.
Course 7: Rose cordial (Turkmenistan)
8: olives, hummus, other unearthed snacks
9: Shrimp on the barbie (Australia)
10: Kansiye (Guinea) - a hearty beef stew with peanut butter -- this one was just okay.
11: Pad Thai (Thailand) - delish, as always, but not the best ever. (plus, felt kind of like a copout! also we were in the basement of a Thai restaurant soooo...)
12: Koshari (Egypt) - an eccentric dish of macaroni pasta served with an exotic sauce of rice and lentils. This was really good! I wasn't expecting it to be, but I did really like it. I think that was because of all the butter in it...
13: Chicken (Angola)
14: Vegetable stew (Djibouti)
15: Otai (Tongo) Watermelon, pineapple and coconut drink
16: Tama (Palau) - deep fried vanilla ball. Meh.
17: Durian (Malaysia) - frozen slice. Weird smell, banned on public transport, not my fave fruit.
For those of you who were wondering--we did ask about what the dish from the US was - it was pumpkin pie.
Bonus Jonas!
A custom-made pop-tart cake by Bittersweet Bakers :)
(A giant version of this:
)
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| Soooooo yummy |
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| Great way to break the fast |
By then, it had of course started raining, so we grabbed some hooded jackets and headed to Potter's Field Park, where Rioja Tapas Fantasticas was going on. I love our home. Such a great area!! If you haven't come to visit already, you should :) We had some Rioja to complement all our tapas, which were:
Course 2: Calamari from
It definitely wasn't the greatest I've ever had, so I wasn't too excited about it.
Course 3: Gambas from Donostia Social Club.
Course 4: Scallops with tomatoes and black rice with squid.
Course 5: Chorizo sandwich
Course 6: Churros con chocolate from Churros Garcia. Delicious.
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| Course 3: Gambas |
Course 7: Rose cordial (Turkmenistan)
8: olives, hummus, other unearthed snacks
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| Course 8 |
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| Courses 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 |
9: Shrimp on the barbie (Australia)
10: Kansiye (Guinea) - a hearty beef stew with peanut butter -- this one was just okay.
11: Pad Thai (Thailand) - delish, as always, but not the best ever. (plus, felt kind of like a copout! also we were in the basement of a Thai restaurant soooo...)
12: Koshari (Egypt) - an eccentric dish of macaroni pasta served with an exotic sauce of rice and lentils. This was really good! I wasn't expecting it to be, but I did really like it. I think that was because of all the butter in it...
13: Chicken (Angola)
14: Vegetable stew (Djibouti)
15: Otai (Tongo) Watermelon, pineapple and coconut drink
16: Tama (Palau) - deep fried vanilla ball. Meh.
17: Durian (Malaysia) - frozen slice. Weird smell, banned on public transport, not my fave fruit.
For those of you who were wondering--we did ask about what the dish from the US was - it was pumpkin pie.
Bonus Jonas!
A custom-made pop-tart cake by Bittersweet Bakers :)
(A giant version of this:
)
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