Granada Meals

In our second installment about food, we want to talk about meals. Breakfast in Spain tends to be small, usually a piece of bread (kind of like a baguette) with jam or olive oil or tomato on it. At school, the kids have a snack around 11:00. At Phoebe's school, the snack is normally a piece of fruit, and on special occasions, they get a piece of toast with olive oil. Lunch is around 2:00, maybe a little later. At Phoebe's school, lunch is included, and they normally have pasta or a soup for the first course and meat, fish, or a Spanish tortilla for the second course. The second course comes with salad, veggies, tomato, or potatoes as a side. They have yogurt as dessert; once a week they get natilla, which is a cinnamon custard. You can see the menu for April at Phoebe's school here:

If you look at Thursday (jueves) the 20th of April, you will see that the second course is croquetas. This is one of Phoebe's favorite foods at school. Croquetas are made of potatoes, meat, or cheese, and then normally fried in olive oil or other oil. Here's a link to a recipe if you'd like to try it at home.

When we go out to eat, we usually just have tapas. (Dinner service doesn't normally start until close to 10:00PM, so we're not out that late). But frequently, Phoebe does not like the tapa. One of the things we have discovered, though, is that just about any restaurant will serve a meal for kids of two eggs over easy with french fries (dos huevos fritos con patatas fritas). Phoebe loves this meal, and even though it never appears on menus, every place we've asked has been able to make it. And the meal has been delicious! Yet another reason we love Granada.