Cuando llegaron los españoles…

Carlos (of Aida and Carlos) brought a boat load of fantastic treats from Spain for me and Erica.

morcilla de Burgos

I almost peed my pants when he pulled out two morcillas, one of my favorite Iberian treats that I wrote about before in this post.  Aida told me I should coat slices of this blood sausage in flour before frying them in olive oil until crisp.  Lunch tomorrow?  I don’t know how Carlos got this through customs.

nicanores de Boñar

These hojaldres are kind of like sfogliatelle puff pastries.  They are delicious… and they’re almost gone already.

pickled eggplant

A very special kind of pickled baby eggplant from Castilla-La Mancha.  It has Euopean Union protected geographical origin.

After all that, Carlos pulled out three bottles of Spanish wines!

I almost forgot the sobaos, Cantabrian Twinkies (without the high fructose corn syrup and red 40/yellow 5).