Yummy!!!

Hello children!

In Spain, one of our favourite pastimes is eating!!  We enjoy eating so much that apart from having breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Spanish people have also invented  two extra moments throughout the day when we stop what we are doing to… EAT!!! These are called ‘almuerzo’ (this is between breakfast and lunch) and ‘merienda’ (between lunch and dinner). That’s why some of us look like this boy…

Anyway, if you take care of what you eat and follow a healthy diet, you will be more likely to be like these beautiful children from the Sixth Grade at Monte Anaor School…

One of our most famous dishes is PAELLA. It is made with rice and all kind of other things mixed in… We make sea food paella, vegetable paella, chicken paella, pork paella, rabbit paella and even snail paella…Have a look!! 

Meat

Snails

Sea food

We are so obsessed with paella that we even have competions to see who can cook the biggest…   Check this out!

The biggest paella in the world

But not everything is about yellow rice… We have other traditional foods like Spanish ham, Spanish omelette, Gazpacho (tomato and vegetables soup), Cocido (chickpeas, meat and vegetable casserole), Croquettes, Calamari, etc… hmmmm!! I am very hungry now!

Calamari

Cocido

Croquettes

Gazpacho

Ham

Spanish omelette

But not everything is that good… When you are a child you have to eat certain dishes that nobody likes, but mum always tells you that they are healthy (remember mum is always right!!).  So you have to eat everything, but one day, when you are and adult, you love them (most of them anyway…haha!). So here we have spinach casserole, olla gitana (translated to English would be ‘ gipsy pan’) fish and vegetables, but the one I didn’t like at all when I was a child was lentils. What do you think? Would you try them?

What about you?
What is the typical food in your country?
What are your favourite dishes and which ones don’t you like?
What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?

That’s all for now!

Adios

xx Miss Laura