Cooking in Madrid

Laura and I took a cooking class in Madrid, and learned to make Gazpacho, Sangria, and Paella. It was really fun because it was the two of us, one other guy, and the teacher. Our teacher took us to the market with her to buy most of the ingredients. We saw exactly what she got... and some really unexpected things, like how various organ meats are harvested.

But it was really fun cooking! The paella was more labor intensive than I expected, but we had fun cooking together, and getting to eat all of the things afterwards. We didn't know there would be an option of non-alcoholic sangria (apparently if we had called ahead and told them we don't drink, they would've gotten us things to make a virgin sangria), so while we didn't get to try what we made, we got the instructions to make it with assorted fruit juices to simulate the classic Spanish drink.

The two things we made turned out really well though! We were both pretty proud of our first attempt at making Paella and gazpacho.