Tapas are pretty much small snacks you get when you go out for a drink. Tapas you can also get as an aperitivo before your meal. Let's be honest, tapas you can get where you want, when you want and how you want!!
Tapas is a big thing. Spanish people are not able to comprehend getting a beer without a snack. Imagine how lost they must feel when they're exposed to a single bottle of vodka without even a juice? Ok, that's a little too much Polish/Eastern thinking for today...
Anyways, when you go to a bar, apart from a drink, you will get a card of all the tapas you can choose from. They could be very small and very cheap (1 euro) but also bigger, meant to be shared among the people (aaand that's exactly why we don't have tapas in Poland!). One of my goals, BEFORE coming to Spain, was to try all kinds of tapas. Little did I know and little did I understand when my Spanish friends laughed at me when I said it... There's so many different versions, types, styles of tapas, its impossible to try them all. But I'm doing my best!
One of the most popular Spanish tapas is tortilla.
Tortilla de patatas is the most common one and super easy to make! It's not the Mexican tortilla you might be thinking about, it's more like a Spanish omelette. And here comes the recipe!! What you need is eggs and potatoes, nothing else! I personally like the version with the onion but the plain simple one is only eggs and potatoes. You need to fry the potatoes (well, cut them first), take them out of the pan, mix them with the eggs and fry them from both sides! What's tricky is turning the tortilla. For that you need practice but even if it breaks it will still taste good! Just don't forget about salt and pepper!
Spain is a country where you can find all kinds of seafood and you can also get it as tapas.
Of course fried, like most of the food here, with a mayo to dip them with, here, fried squid.
Tapas also differ depending on which region are you actually in. In the South, in Andalusia, you can often get tapas free with your drink. Here, In Catalonia, that would never happen, although you can always get a bowl of FRIED nuts (frutos secos). No matter where you are though, you will always find patatas bravas which are, again, FRIED potatos with a sauce based on ketchup and mayo (depends, every place makes bravas in a different way so the sauce might differ, too).
One of the strangest things that I have tried so far in Spain and one of the tapas you might find is morro. If you don't know Spanish I recommend you write this down somewhere because you might not even want to try it. Unless you like bacon. I like bacon. Bacon...
Morro means 'a nose' in Spanish. And that's what it is. A pig's nose. Cut in pieces, don't worry. You can have it as a dish but also as a tapa. It's really fatty, I mean, it's fried, of course, like everything here, but it tastes a little like bacon so I like it. :)
Las tapas are addicting! Once you get a hang of the idea of tapas it will be hard for you not to have them every now and then when you go out. Not that good for the body but sooo important as a social convention! Besos,
xoxo
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