Taberna de Jam, Grenada Spain - our first taste ...

After almost 2 weeks in Morocco, we found ourself back in Spain. We flew into Madrid and then took a bus ride several hours through the hills of olive trees and arrived in Grenada. It was warm, we were tired & hungry. We drop our bags at the wonderful Carlos V hotel, which was a recommendation from Io & H, and take a shower. All refreshed, we venture outside to see what's on offer. We step out of the hotel and there is a small park lined with orange trees, all blossoming. We both stop and take in the incredible smell ........ Then like a gleaming light in the not-so-distance we see Taberna de Jam. It's already bustling with people so we head on over.



Now we had heard about Grenada being one of the few places that still offer a free tapa with every drink purchase, but for our first taste of this was pleasantly surprised. We ordered 2 of the Andalucian Tinto de Verano which are a refreshing mix of red wine and a sparkling lemon soda. The accompanying complimentary tapa is a little sandwich, on a little olive oil bread with slices of Jamón and a handful of potato crisps.



We then order a few little dishes from the menu, the first up, an Andalucian cold soup, salmorejo. It is thick & rich, with boiled egg & Jamón and a slice of toasted bread.



Then is a little brioche bun, with sliced Jamón, fried potatoes and a little quails egg. If I could have that sort of brioche bun each day for breakfast I would be one happy girl .... well, anytime of day in-fact.



Well, it was time to move on and discover some more of this little town, but we were very happy to have this as our local.




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Is food worth your life??

Is it?? I only ask because as we were driving down the main street in Chawaeng (not a place you would regualy see us but we were shopping for white clothes for the opening white party of Nikki Beach Samui), we saw this guy doing something interesting on his scooter fooderie, we only saw it as we passed so with a cry of "ohhh whats that?"



We threw on the brakes and chucked a uwie in front of a little oncoming traffic (I'm pretty sure we're not the worst farang drivers they've seen). We pulled up and watched for a minute to see what was going on, this guy was making little rolled pancakes with two types of fillings.



First the a little batter was poured onto the hotplate the fillings added, the first filling was whats commonly called funny sausage in Thailand, like a small frankfurter.



but it was the second filling that caught out eye as the batter set a quials egg was cracked over the pancake then it was topped with a little chicken mince, white pepper and soy before being rolled.



Yes please six of those all for the bargin price of eighteen baht.  Super sweet.  With pancakes in hand it was back onto the scooter for a snack on the go.



Was it worth stopping traffic? oh yeah, the batter was a little sweet the inside salty and peppery. What a great snack I wish we had got a few more, thats the proble with the moblie fooderies you never see them again.