Food, Food, Madrid, Food

I will post actual details of our trip to Madrid soon, but here are some food pictures to hold you over until I have my Madrid blog written out. Still no fish market pictures, I'll work on that! The pictures are under the description.

We went to a Basque restaurant for lunch on Saturday in Madrid. We had our own table in the non-smoking room (a lot of people smoke here), so Juan agreed to participate in some picture taking :)

Here is a salad with smoked salmon, onion, peppers, and sweet pickles with oil/vinegar dressing.

Cheese plate - very yummy cheese


Juan and chipirones en su tinta (squid in its ink)

Close-up of the squid - it really does taste better than it looks!


Bacalao - a white fish - cooked in a spicy tomato sauce

Membrillo - aka "brown stuff" with cheese. Membrillo is a traditional Spanish sweet fruit paste.

And, of course, some Vino


We had breakfast at this little coffee and pastry shop in Plaza del Sol. There is a coffee bar at the back where people just stand around and eat/drink. The take-out pastry stand is over to the right of the picture. It was a very very yummy way to start the day!


We ate lunch Sunday at the Thyssen museum. Below is a 'tortilla', a very traditional tapa or first course. It is made with egg, potato, and sometimes some ham, onion, or other ingredients.


Close-up of the (half eaten) tortilla


For lunch we split a salad and a smoked salmon sandwich. You can also see a delicious glass of sangria on the right-hand side of the photo!


Juan celebrated his birthday at the Thyssen with a piece of chocolate cake. I sang "Happy Birthday" - very very very quitely.

I'll post more details about the actual trip soon, if I can! We get our own internet on Wednesday morning, so my posts will be much more frequent!