Cooking Class
- joevellutini
- Apr 16
- 2 min read
Last night we had a private cooking class after a trip to one of the public markets in the city. Chef Danny gave us detailed, hands on experience in making paella, Spanish tortilla on tomato bread, roasted vegetables on puff pastry, gazpacho soup and balsamic strawberries with chocolate soil. It was a fun evening with plenty of food and wine. My assignment was to make the tortilla, which in Spain is like a potato and onion quiche, Danny is in the camp of adding onion, this can be a highly contested ingredient in Spain
Traditionally paella is not served on a dish, every one is to have a spoon and take turns eating straight from the pan. He shared a story that in his household growing up, the pan was split up in quarters and his father would hold the handle of the pan so that nobody would rotate the pan to eat out of someone else’s quadrant.
Today was a private, full day tour of everything Gaudi and a different public food market for a lunch at a fish counter.
After lunch we drove to Park Guell to walk along the stone steps.
After the part we then proceeded to Sagrada Familia for our tour there.
If you read my post from yesterday, then you know that I walked here already, but as we walked up I kept thinking that it all looked different. Yesterday I approached the building from the west, I missed everything going on in the front which is even more detailed than the side I looked at yesterday. In about 12 years this side is planned on becoming the main entrance to the church.
The interior is so unique, Gaudi’s design for the interior was to be of nature made of stone to look like a forest. The light coming through the stained glass was so beautiful as it was approaching the end of the day.
