Birthday/Tapas

Yesterday, I celebrated my birthday here in Logrono by going out for tapas with Rosa, the teacher at my Tuesday school who has been incredibly helpful, Kelly, Jennis, and an English teacher with whom Kelly works who's also friends with Rosa. I took it as an opportunity to photograph some tapas, something I always say I'm going to do and then I forget to take out my camera.

Before going out, my roommates and I devoured the amazing brownies that Sylvie made (see above and below). Decent baked goods don't exist in Spain, and the brownies were amazing.

Unrelated, but I'm trying to draw more and I drew this this week, and I kind of like it.

me, Rosa, Kelly, and Jennis at the mushrooms place, La Cueva (The Cave).

These are mushrooms ("champis") covered in garlicy olive oil and held together by a toothpick. There's also a small shrimp on top. So delicious, and the best part is when you're done eating the mushrooms, you have a garlicy greasy piece of bread to eat.

Here we are at 9 pm (notice the light/the perfect weather), being nerds. That's Kelly's teacher, Isabel, on the far right. Hilarious.

I'm not sure what's on the far left; something in a shell. Next is a croquette and then 3 Sublimes, a chicken and tomato skewer with guacamole. It's one of my favorites.

Patatas Bravas are all over Spain, but I think they're the best in Logrono. They're fried potato slices covered with mayonaisse (that magically doesn't look or taste like mayonaisse) and brava sauce, a semi-spicy tomato-based sauce.

I didn't eat this but I took a picture anyways. I think it's green pepper and anchovies. I got a piece of toast topped with goat cheese, jamon serano, and raspberry jam.

And then we end every tapas experience with Sorbette, limon sorbet and champagne blended. I'm going to take photographs next time I go out of more tapas.