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Tapas came form the Spanish word tapar which means "to cover." A tapa is basically a way of eating food in Spain. The tapa came when king Alfonso X of Castile recovered from an illness and ordered taverns to serve a small snack, or tapa, with each drink. Tapas are usually ate at or right before meals. Tortilla epsañola was made for the first time in 1817 by a conquistador. They made because it was really easy to make and really good to eat. It is a very well known dish all over the world. It is the most popular dish in Spain. It's like a hamburger in USA. All you need to make this is, potatoes, whole yellow onion (or just any other onion), large eggs, olive oil, salt, pepper (optional), shredded cheese (optional). I've been to many countries and this is one of my top picks. The dish is made up of white potatoes that have been cut into 2 centimeter shapes. They fried in oil and covered in a spicy tomato sauce. Commonly served in restaurants, it is traditionally served with a shot of orujo or a glass of wine.



Churros were first made in Portugal after a trade with Ming Dynasty. The Chinese had a method of pulling the dough through a mold but the Portuguese pushed the dough through the mold. Churros are a common breakfast dish. They are typically fried until they are crunchy. Then chefs would sprinkle sugar on top of the churro after they took it out of the fryers. There are many variations of it, so try and experiment with it.



Traditionally, the pig is cooked over a grill of charcoal. This results in the skin being crispy while the meat inside is tender.Usally served at fancy restraunts in Spain, it is very expansive.



Paella was first introduced in the mid-19th century, in Valencia. It is a rice dish and is usually the main course. The rice dish usually has rice, pork, chicken, vegetables, and spices in it. Some people, during fiestas, make this dish and they put it in a HUGE pot and serve it on the street! This dish is something you would eat 2-3 times a week. If you lived in Spain, you would learn to love Paella! Flan was first introduced by the ancient Romans. The bottom of this extraordinary pastry, is caramelized sugar. Also, there is usually custard as a filling. There is a vanilla tinge on the outer layer of the flan. At the start of flan's life, it started as a bitter vanilla bread but after many years, it evolved to a vanilla custard sweetness! Gazpacho is a chilled spanish soup, sometimes with a tomato base instead of cream. It comes in many colors like white, //ajo blanco// with ground almonds, garlic,yogurt,and cucumbers. This is higher in protein than the tomato varients. it is chilled and served with fresh chunks of bread. There is also a green variant, which gets its color from spinach, lettuce and other vegtables.It is a very good source of vegtables.it contains yogurt and chicken as well as mint for flavor. Gazpacho came from the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. It's traditionally made with ripe tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, garlic, and bread moistened with water that is blended with olive oil, vinegar, and ice water and served cold. Gazpacho was a poor peoples food, usaully made of bread water and tomatoes all mashed together. Here is a recipe by Chef Sabra Ricci for gazpacho.

**Gazpacho**

Serving Size: 8

**Ingredients**

3 cups tomatoes, red ripe, seeded and diced 2 cups red bell pepper, diced medium 2 cups red onions, diced medium 1/2 cup celery, diced medium 2 cups cucumber, diced medium 1 teaspoon garlic, minced 1/4 cup red wine vinegar 2 cups organic vegetable juice pinch cayenne 1 teaspoon cumin

**Method** Mix diced tomato, peppers, red onions, celery and cucumber together in a medium bowl. Divide the mixture in half and separate in two bowls.

Add garlic to one of the bowls and empty into blender. Add vinegar to the blender and puree until smooth.

Add the vegetable juice, cayenne and cumin to the blender. Blend.

Add the puree to the bowl of diced vegetables.

Refrigerate overnight. Garnish with lemon and cilantro.

**Nutritional Analysis** Per serving - 55 Calories Fat 1 g - 7% calories from fat Protein 2 g Carbohydrate 13 g  Cholesterol 0 mg  Sodium 237 mg

= =  Jamon Serrano translated means "mountian ham."Jamon Serrano is a spanish dry cured ham made in the mountians of spain. It is made in the mountians because of the airy conditions. also, if left out on the spainish plains, it would heat the ham and spoil it.to make the ham, you trim pork legs, clean them, and salt them. then you let them sit for 2 week to dry. then you wash the salt off and let it dry for a year a s a general safety rule. It is done curing when the ham turns a rich pink color. it is not cooked, it is only hung out in the breeze to dry for months on end. then it is cut up and served. the ham can be eaten as an appetizers like jamon wrapped in Manchego cheese or malon as the cheese is a spanish specialtyTheir are actually special kinves you can buy to cut up your jamon serrano. the history of jamon serrano dates back to the roman empire. The spainish used the same process i just explianed. The making of the ham usaully started in november and the families making the ham would have a ritual called matanza. it spans three days this was an occasion that everyone participated in. it is a bit meesy from what ive read, and in volves killing the pig. they use every part of the pig, making other dishes like jamones, paletillas, chorizo, salchichon, salchicha, butifarras, lenguados, rellenos and sobrasada.I wouild love to try it jamon. Chorizo was discovered in the early 1700s by a spanish chef in the Mediterranean Islands. chorizo is a pork sausage, served spicy or sweet and hot or cold. it is mostly a appittizer. its eaten with cheese and crackers, in sanwiches, or made in soups. it can be made by barbecued, fried, suprisingly apple cider, and alcohalic beverages. it contains ground beef, pork,or both, red chile, small dried chile peppers, garlic cloves, ground black pepper, vinegar, water, and salt. thats the basics of what you need to make this.

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