Thursday 7 November 2013

Smug Blog Alert

Anyone want to hear about our 3 day, child-free, all-expenses paid, what can only be described as, bender last weekend? Excellent.

Actually the 40th birthday trip of 2 very generous friends, 21 of us headed to Rioja in Spain.  Activities revolved around eating, wine-tasting, bad homo-erotic dancing and sleeping past 6am without being kicked in the head by a 3 year old.

We kicked off the gorging with a 3 Michelin Star meal at Azurmendi.  Here are just a few of my favs of the 15 courses...



These egg yolks are injected with truffle to cook from the inside.  And they are served on a handy spoon. 









Sea Urchin crustini on a urchin-infused Bloody Mary.  This  tasted a bit like a rock pool.


Fungal Fun



This was my favourite.  Pigeon with hazelnuts.  The giant hazel nuts are actually foie gras covered with chocolate and sprayed with gold...stuff.  Amazing!









Where ever we went there seemed to be a lot of glasses in a line.  Beautiful wine, great friends and even some Europop to top off a brilliant weekend.



So we have been home for a couple of weeks now and we are still trying to acclimatise to our old lives.  Tonight for example, I am having to cook my own bloody jacket potato and I'm clean out of Urchin Tears and Foie Gras!  

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