So our cousins in Madrid have a son, Oscar, who is a graduate student in Physics. As part of his program the students in his cohort visit various Universities in Spain with various specialities in Physics. They do this in a rotation for a year. Two of the units are here in Sevilla - one next spring and one right now. So on Saturday night Oscar arrived via train from Madrid about 8:45. We had a 10:15 reservation for dinner at Castizo.
Somehow I missed a photo of Oscar's Presa Iberico and only managed to remember my arroz photo after starting to mix it up. Must have been the conversation. Our topics ranged from Iranian cinema to particle physics. #nerdconversations
aged cheese with truffled honey - a great start
the eggplant dish below was the best of the evening... pistachios and pomegranate roasted eggplant on couscous - very yummy
the arroz del dia - sorry I dug in before the photo...
On Sunday Oscar went exploring all over the city and then met some friends at a club for music -he came home later than I stayed up...LOL.
His Monday schedule started later, so I did see him in the kitchen making himself some toast with triturado. Monday night we dined at Casapuerta. The restaurant was packed. Every table was full when Oscar and I arrived for our reservation. We shared risotto and carpaccio. I had the lubina and Oscar had the tuna tataki. For postres, it was the tartare de queso for me and the arroz con leche for Oscar. Blanca was happy to see me and to meet Oscar. They had an involved discussion of a park near her Madrid neighborhood (haunted buildings and secret tunnels). As usual, all good.
Tuesday he had both an early day, and a long day of classes. We went to Red Steak nearby and found ourselves overwhelmed by the portions. Neither of us finished either of the dishes we ordered, the portion sizes were so huge. Good thing Oscar wanted to bring his lunch to university tomorrow (having tried the cafeteria on campus today.)
I started with the Caesar salad and Oscar with the grilled veggies. Then he had a braised pork dish and I had the sirloin with peppercorn sauce. (Luckily I was able to foist off one of the steaks on my plate to my dining companion. Still left about half the large one behind.) This place has BIG food.
Phil arrives tomorrow (Wednesday) and Oscar and his classmates finish their intensive on Thursday. Since some of them are leaving right after class that day - they have all decided on a get together on Wednesday (the night Phil arrives) so Phil and I will grab an earlier meal and hopefully see Oscar either Thursday or Friday night before he leaves on Saturday...
Meanwhile today - we had horrific weather in southern Spain. Egg sized hail in Malaga - much much much flooding and it rained here all day long literally from 4 or 5 AM until 8 PM. So it was a good day to catch up on various in home tasks...
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