TAPAS

Last night we went out for Tapas. Tapas are kind of the American equivalent to appetizers. Everyone in the JMU group had a tapas night where Jesus paid for us to sample some traditional Spanish tapas. The first place we went to specialized in ham, what a freaking surprise. We had a sampling of ribs, sausage and lomo, which is a cut of ham from the back of a pig. This place was a little too hammy for me. I envied the two vegetarians that were in my group. They got some artichoke tapa, which looked a lot better than more ham. The next place we went to had a large variety of tapas. We started with some fried cheese ball things, calamari, Spanish tortilla. The Spanish tortilla is a variation of a quiche and an omelet. It has egg and potatoes and onions and it cooked like an omelet. These tapas were all very tasty, but the best tapa by far was the red pepper stuffed with Bacaloa, which is a type of salted fish. This was absolutely delicious. It came covered in the orange sauce, which was amazing, and there was absolutely no ham in it, which was equally astonishing!