Texas Dinner in Barcelona

Our host mom told us when we first got to Barcelona that we need to cook something for her that is very much a "Texas" kind of food because I'm from Texas and that Charlotte (my roommate) needs to cook something from "Georgia". So last night was the night. We decided to go with a Texas styled meal, mostly because both of us have been craving Tex-Mex and margaritas. I found in my email some recipes from my mom and enchilada casserole seemed pretty easy. So Charlotte and I set out to try to find all the ingredients. Interestingly enough Spain does not have enchilada sauce, but we found some other thing that looked similar, minus the hotness, and we couldn't find cream of chicken. There was cream of mushroom and chicken soup, but not cream of chicken. Strange. But we made due with what we found.

For the dinner line up we had enchilada casserole with chips and guacamole and margaritas and for dessert, Mexican wedding cookies. We spent a good two hours in the kitchen baking and cooking the casserole. It all turned out amazing! My host mom does not like anything spicy so I left out the chili powder that was supposed to go in the casserole. It still turned out pretty good, not exactly like Mom's but still pretty good. My host mom's boyfriend, Jose, was over for dinner and said that he liked the food too. It was a good night, we were all laughing and enjoying the food (and the tequila).


Funny thing about the baking, in order to make Mexican Wedding cookies you need cookies cutters to make the shapes. Well the only cookie cutter that my host mom had was a Texas cookie-cutter. It just added to the Texas theme of the night. And while we were baking Charlotte mentioned something about how she's never made cookies from scratch before. So I got to introduce her to the messy fun of mixing the dough with your hands. It was a lot of fun.

I think that's one point for the Americans.