When we arrived here in Granada, in addition to the beauty that this city offers, another thing that, well always, seems to grab my attention is the food. Here the food is very simple but has a incomparable flavor. It is simple delicious no matter what or how something is prepared. There are a great variety of flavors that each complement the other, from the sweet melon for example to the salty ham that drapes it. At times I feel that everything I eat is prepared with love..haha because every single bite explodes in your mouth.
With every change in life or every new experience there is always a nervous feeling that exists with that event and the food is no exception.I was anxious to try my first spanish dish y I hope it would be everything that I had imagined it would be, and more! The first night here in Granada we went to a cute little restaurant called Bordeaux. There we ordered various tapas, all of which I loved. We order calamares which were out of this world, cooked to perfection. They were fried and placed on top of sauteed potatoes and drizzled with some olive oil and some lemon. They were soo light and tender, and I'm pretty sure that I ate the entire plate. They were definitely the best calamares I have ever had in my life!
From that point on, I tried a whole bunch of new dishes and at times dishes that I already knew but they were prepared differently (spanish style). haha. I can think back to one of the dishes that my senora served me that I didn't like. Normally I would never describe myself as someone who was too picky with their food, but these two dishes were not appetizing, "gazpacho" and "shrimp."
First, if you don't know what gazpacho is, it's a kind of like cold soup that can be prepared many different ways. My senora makes it with tomates, little pieces of ham, and at times pieces of hard boiled eggs on top. This cold soup is mostly eaten in the summer as a way to enjoy soup at the same time not sweating your balls of in the summer, regardless I would rather sweat my balls off than have to deal with that shit again. I think my friends and I would agree that this stuff was hard to swallow, but the people here don't seem bothered by it at all, while they drink this stuff by the glass. How disgusting!!
In addition to the gazpacho, I'm not a big fan of the shrimp here. One day my friends and I went to a beach town called Salobreña to go to the beach and enjoy the summer weather. When we arrived, we were all pretty hungry for lunch so we decided to eat to stop and this cute little restaurant along the street right next to the beach. I chose a salad that had grilled shrimp on top which I thought would be absolutely delicious considering shrimp are normally one of my favorite seafood. Perfect!! i thought. But no.
Here I nearly vomited when I saw what was on my plate when the waitress put it in front of me. I literally was scared of this creatures that laid across my salad. These shrimp literally looked like they were caught from the ocean to my left, placed on the grilled and placed on my plate. The shrimp were whole, with the heads intact, eyes, antennas, and all 50 of their legs! What the hell is this!! I'm saying. Where the hell is the preparation. How disgusting!! Where do I even begin to eat these things. After trying to better the situation and make the shrimp look a little more appetizing, I became frustrated when the shrimps brains were falling all over my salad, so I dropped the folk and simply ordered a cheese pizza instead. At this still can't be screwed up that much.. or at least I hoped.....
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