I have only one thing to say for today...El Bulli!

I started off this blog to really be a history and future of my life through the eyes of my adventures with food.

Experiences with different types, places, and recipes, why I love (and hate) certain ones. I haven't done it, I have used this great tool to somehow show the crazy side of myself, still not showcasing what makes me tick. As you can guess, its food. I said FOOD!!! Glorious, mouth watering, eye watering FOOD!

Well, for my New Year's resolution I have promised myself that I will share my thoughts and experiences with you. Bear with me, I may ramble, lose consciousness, jump for joy or cry.

Now here is my first story.....

Andy and I went to Europe in June 2007, arriving in Barcelona Spain for three days, leaving on a cruise ship and visiting France, all over Italy, Greece, Croatia and arriving back in Barcelona to catch a train to Pamplona to run with the bulls.

What I wanted to do on this trip, especially was to collect cookbooks. Much to Andy's dismay, his thought was "I am going to be the one that has to lug these books halfway across the world"!

So I promised him that I would NOT buy books (only to hold this promise until I found ones that I couldn't live without). Luckily for him, I did not find anything to bring home.

However, the experiences we had was out of this WORLD!!!

When I was told about this trip, I went to have lunch at a friends restaurant that he owned. As I told him about the trip, his eyes got REALLY big and said "You have got to go El Bulli's" "What's that I asked. He went on to describe this incredible restaurant that was nominated to be the #1 restaurant and #1 chef in the WORLD!!!! I just sat there and looked at him, what do you say to that? He told me that it was in the small coastal town of Roses about 1.5 hours from Barcelona.

I am making reservations, no problem I thought I have six months before we leave. What I didn't know that this very special restaurant is EXTREMELY SPECIAL! It is only open 6 months out of the year, with only 8,000 reservations to be had, with over one million people try to get a reservation! They sit you at early evening and serve you over 37 courses! You will be there until 2AM, stopping in between to go outside in the courtyard just to readjust your stomach.

So website found, looking all through it, find the reservation site, heart jumping, which stopped when it said that the reservations for the year are full. What???? I even told Andy we are just going to have to drive up and look at it. That didn't happen. So I yearn for the time that we are back and I promise that I will be able to get there!

This morning I went on Amazon.com because I wanted the Mario Batali's cookbook of "On the Road Again in Spain" which showed Tapas (which I LOVE) and different cities with different meals (more stories, on that later)

On this site they had El Bulli cookbook, which makes me drool to the tune of $385.00!!! Don't think I could actually do that guilty pleasure anytime soon! However, I noticed that they have a cookbook called "One day at El Bulli" for $30.00!!! Yea Baby! Over 600 pages, I can't wait!

Update: Looked at the site, sold out! Asked for us to look in December 2009 for 2010! WOW!

So please if you have a moment, please read the website www.elbulli.info.com I promise you will not be disappointed, I promise.

So enough for today, see there is a serious side to me, well maybe a partial side.