El Bulli Hotel

So, you are probably never going to eat at El Bulli. Me either. And this is as close as you're going to get. A half-hour taxi ride outside of Seville will bring you to the Hacienda Benazuza in Sanlúcar la Mayor. This is a magical place filled with pristine citrus groves, canopied outdoor lounge beds, rows and rows of fountains- there were probably baby unicorns wandering the rows of olive trees, but I think I was too excited for dinner and may have missed them.

So, now you have tricked your family into driving 30 minutes outside of Seville to have a 16 course El Bulli's Greatest Hits tasting menu. And you have been explaining for the past four days to your father, who hates olives, that he will served an olive. You say that he has to eat the olive, because even though it is in an olive jar and looks like an olive, it is NOT an olive- it is a reverse spherified olive oil that has been brined.

He, of course, tries passing on the olive. And then you have 16 of the best courses of food and mind tricks that you have ever had- Quicoguaca. Mimetic peanuts. Deconstructed omelette potatoes. "Ajo blanco" with prawns, ceps, and asparagus. Tuna ventresca with tuna mayonaise and jellied tomato. Mini quail in carrot pickle. Rabbit shoulder in "salmorejo" sauce with mango puree and marscapone cheese. All ending with a frozen English bread pudding that practically evaporates before your eyes.

While I was out...

RIP- Holiday Sprinkle Collection.

Oh, we have so much to catch up on, friends.

Some things that you may have missed: Cereal Cakes (and why you shouldn't make one). Mastering the two-person souffle. Baking a Cherpumple (you can hardly tell there are 3 pies inside that cake!) Dinner at the El Bulli hotel in Spain. Coca-Cola ravioli (just as disgusting as it sounds!) Finding out you used to date a social media billionaire (and how to drink away the last of your megayacht dreams). The Cottontail: egg white, gin, Cointreau, peach bitters- shake. My dinner at Alinea (or how I terrified Grant Achatz). The Dateline: Diet Dr. Pepper, whiskey, amaretto, bitters. Olive Oil Macarons. How much jamon is too much jamon? (not a thing). A brief obsession with no-knead bread, and how I managed to overcome my borderline-insane sprinkle hoarding.

OMFG, OMG is Back

Hello nobody that reads my blog. I am going to bake a giant wedding cake, so I am back and will be blogging about it. Because people LOVE reading about silly 20-somethings who decide they are able to bake wedding cakes on their own.

See above? That is the liquors that are going in the cake. They need to age for 3 months. There is homemade limoncello, and homemade raspberry liquor, and earl grey creme infused gin. Recipes and details coming soon. (Like how do you make the best limoncello? Hint: LIMES).

Hugs.

B