A tale of my relationship with food

CHALLENGE  ACCOMPLISHMENT # 1

THE RESOLUTION: Food from 13 countries


First of, I would like to mention that I absolutely love food! I love eating and often eat until I need to rolled away from the table. I am completely thankful to my intense athletic upbringing for allowing not to be obese by now.

Now, I am not what most people may consider a 'foodie'. I won't be the kind of person who will describe the attributes of the food I will be sampling on this challenge. Nor will I be able to tell you what expensive wine to pair each plate with. I am quite simply open to trying anything new whether its a fancy restaurant serving strange looking aphrodisiacs or snacking on grasshoppers with my new Indonesian friends. I only really have 2 limits that I know of.

 1) Monkeys and Rats
Mainly because of their capacity to carry major diseases that will kill me. And definitely because I love, love, love monkeys, apes, chimps, gorillas, orangutans and I'm absolutely certain none of them will ever want to be my friend again if I eat one of their brothers!
2) Spicy food
This can also be considered life and death. It is not simply that I do not like it or that I'm not brave enough. In fact, I recognize that many spices have amazing health benefits. Unfortunately, a still unknown spice/pepper has been responsible for a near death experience I had a long time ago (certainly felt that way). So this throat inflating allergy that keeps me from being able to breathe, is also responsible for my fear and distaste for most spicy foods.

The first of 13 foods from countries around the world will be a meal at a Syrian restaurant called Ugarit that I went to with my sister when we were visiting Barcelona.
I ordered the 'Meat Arayes Combination Dish' and Maite opted for the 'Kafta Combination Dish', also a meat dish. The combination meant that our dishes were accompanied by hummus, falafel, a salad and a variety of cream sauces. Both plates were absolutely delicious and an enormous portion for sure. I have to give definite credit to the Kafta meat though. I truly don't know how to describe foods so I won't try to. If you are ever in Barcelona or one Ugarit's other locations, I definitely recommend you take the opportunity to sample their tasty Syrian food for yourself.

http://www.ugarit.es


















One woman. One year. 3 down. 166 to go.