Arcadia Spain

Last week our students had the chance to learn about the Spanish food while cooking and tasting pinxos in our Cooking Workshop at Arcadia Center!!!  

In Spain, dinner is usually served between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m, leaving significant time between work and dinner. Therefore, Spaniards often go "bar hopping" (Spanish: Ir de tapas) and eat tapas in the time between finishing work and having dinner. Since lunch is usually served between 1 and 3 p.m., another common time for tapas is weekend days around noon as a means of socializing before lunch proper at home.

PINXOS; typical from the North of Spain. The name is because many of them have a pincho, or toothpick, through them. The toothpick is used to keep whatever the snack is made of from falling off the bread it has been attached.

They cooked a variety of pinxos!! All of them delicious:

*Piquillo pepper filled with tuna belly

*Goat cheese, tomato jam and anchovies

*Spanish Omellete, tomato and red pepper on the top

*Chunk of Curado cheese with quince and grapes

*Smoked Salmon, Philadelphia cheese rolled

*Guacamole with tomato and salmon

*Mini toast with Mató cheese, nuts and honey on the top.

The students were split into two days from the beginning in order to work better, and both groups did an excellent job at preparing these pinxos. The best part?  We ate all of them and tasted really good!  The Cooking Workshop is an experience that the students enjoy very much!!