This is my lunch today. Essentially everything on here is exciting. The goat’s cheese is simple, and ubiquitous, but a really good, strong cheese, not like the plain flavor of the goat’s cheese you get in the States. The hummus is exciting because I made it yesterday; they don’t sell hummus here. It’s actually really good. (Recipe, abbreviated: heat 3 Tbsp. olive oil in a small pan, and add 4-5 chopped garlic cloves; sauté until aromatic but not browned. Meanwhile, puree 16-20 ounces of garbanzo beans (chickpeas) in a blender/food processor with some of the water they came in, 2 Tbsp. Tahini, at least a Tbsp. of lemon juice, some salt and some cumin powder (say, a teaspoon each?). Let the garlic cool, and then add to the rest of the ingredients. Puree until smooth; add water in spoonfulls as necessary to thin.) The hummus and cheese actually shouldn’t go together, but they jive pretty well; two strong flavors playing rather than fighting. I wouldn’t've wanted anything else on my sandwhich.

Today, I took the metro home, but got off a stop earlier, and did some shopping. I found a muffin pan which is a bit small, but may work fine (for €2.40, so no big deal if it doesn’t). And I found a dried fruit and nuts shop, which was exciting. Not because I’d found one — there are tons of ‘em here, all with signs that say Frutos Secos, which really means both dried fruits and nuts — but rather because of how packed this one was. (Thus the link to a streetview image of it.) I went in, bought some dried apricots (not cheap, but not pricey either), and got talked into buying drief figs and walnuts as well — the guy told me you rip open the figs and stuff them with walnuts. Now, I have no clue, but it’s certainly tasty to do that. So I did. Have been doing.

I updated the burritos entry to show a photograph of them. The next morning after making them (or maybe Sunday morning? I’m not sure), I decided to make an American breakfast. So I made bacon, and then fried potatoes with garlic in them, and made eggs. And then ate them with some of the leftover refried beans. It occurred to me, though, that this wasn’t really all too accurate as an American breakfast. I’m not sure what it needed. Toast? No beans? Cream cheese? That’s okay. It was delicious.