LOVELY BLOODY FOOD

LOVELY BLOODY FOOD

Hello dear future friends! We are here to talk about our delicious (and sometimes disturbing) gastronomy. We can assure you that you will eat tasty and healthy food (probably a bit more than you usually do in your country).

To start, our diet is based on olive oil. We use it for almost everything. We use it to fry stuff, which is much healthier than butter, we put it on salads and something we eat almost every day is bread with salt, olive oil and tomato. On that, you can put ham, cheese, etc.The Mediterranean diet is known because of its variety. That is because we always have fresh local products, we have vegetables, fruit, meat, fish and seafood all year.

            LIST OF TYPICAL MALLORCAN DISHES

Meat dishes

-Bread with ”sobrassada” (a special cold meat, we will talk about later).

-Roasted piglet with baked potatoes.

-Rabbit with onion (yes, rabbit, and a really cute one).

-Snails with garlic mayo (oh yes, we eat snails too).

-“Frit de matances” (a fantastic meat dish you make with the leftovers of the pig: kidneys, liver and many other innards).

-“Dirty” rice (a rice casserole with meat and snails).

Fish dishes

-Grilled squid.

-Fish “tumbet”.

-Fish rice soup.

Vegetable and fruit dishes

-Vegetable “tumbet”.

-Trampó (tomato, green pepper and onion salad).

-Melon with ham.

-Stuffed aubergines.

Desserts

-Ensaïmada.

-Apricot pie.

-Potato buns.

-“Gipsy arm” (cake dough roll with cream.

All this sounds amazing (maybe not the snails), but you still don’t know anything about the most disturbing and gory part of our food culture.  We call it” ses matances”, which could be translated as “slaughter” or “butchery”.“Ses matances” consist of all the family meeting in some house in the countryside, where a pig is killed and all the parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts and children participate in stuffing bowels with “sobrassada”, mixing it, etc. In conclusion, all the family work together to get all the food you can get from the pig.

To kill the pig, you make a knot on its foot and hang it up from a tree and you stab it once or twice and you wait until it bleeds out. Of course, you keep all the blood in a bucket, it will be used in “frit de matances”, which was mentioned previously. Then, you chop the meat and make different cold meats, sausages, etc. Even though it can be considered cruel, it is an important part of our culture and somehow we appreciate it. They don’t take place when you come, so if you are sensitive, don’t worry.

Big virtual hugs!!!

SEBASTIÀ, ROSALIA AND MARIA