Part of sightseeing in new places here in Spain is trying out the local delicacies and specialties. I bought some honey flavored pastries and cut them up for everyone to try. I took a little bite to taste and it was different. I liked it OK but not enough to "waste" my calorie allotment on eating any more of it.
We left the city and headed about 30 km outside of town to a park called the "enchanted city". It is a fantastic natural park full of these incredible enormous rock formations. We hiked around the park for a couple of hours and then headed home.
One of my sons' friends came with us and his parents were so glad that we had gone out of our way to provide special food for his very difficult food needs that they had 3 spanish tortillas (homemade) prepared and gave them to us to have for dinner when we dropped their son off. It was so thoughtful of them to prepare dinner for us and the tortilla was delicious even if it did have potatoes in it. I went ahead and ate some. So I guess I will end up taking Saturday as my free day. If I had thought about that I might have gone ahead and had a piece of leftover birthday cake from Friday but I didn't think about it till today so I guess I lost my chance. :-)
Oh, and one more thing .... I still had some leftover oatmeal from the other day so I made another batch of scones. I was almost out of honey so I used molasses instead but lowered it from 2 tbsp to 1 tbsp. I think I may try to cut it back even more the next time. Not sure if any sweetener is really necessary. I added one small apple chopped up and 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon and cut back the milk a little. The taste was much better than the first time. I think the cinnamon really makes the difference and it helps cut the sugar craving too.
We left the city and headed about 30 km outside of town to a park called the "enchanted city". It is a fantastic natural park full of these incredible enormous rock formations. We hiked around the park for a couple of hours and then headed home.
One of my sons' friends came with us and his parents were so glad that we had gone out of our way to provide special food for his very difficult food needs that they had 3 spanish tortillas (homemade) prepared and gave them to us to have for dinner when we dropped their son off. It was so thoughtful of them to prepare dinner for us and the tortilla was delicious even if it did have potatoes in it. I went ahead and ate some. So I guess I will end up taking Saturday as my free day. If I had thought about that I might have gone ahead and had a piece of leftover birthday cake from Friday but I didn't think about it till today so I guess I lost my chance. :-)
Oh, and one more thing .... I still had some leftover oatmeal from the other day so I made another batch of scones. I was almost out of honey so I used molasses instead but lowered it from 2 tbsp to 1 tbsp. I think I may try to cut it back even more the next time. Not sure if any sweetener is really necessary. I added one small apple chopped up and 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon and cut back the milk a little. The taste was much better than the first time. I think the cinnamon really makes the difference and it helps cut the sugar craving too.
2 comments:
Oh, that is a great idea to put some apple and cinnamon in the oatmeal scones. I made them for the first time on Sunday and thought they were pretty good. My husband thought they were not sweet enough :-) So I think next time i will try the apples. Or Raisins would be good too. Great idea!
you look great! What a fun excursion!
Keep on Springing!
Dani Joy
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