Birthday week!

November 08, 2020

Birthday week!

Despite all the heavy school work and Covid, these 2 weeks we have done marathon style (legal) birthday celebrations for my birthday as well as Adri's birthday!

I felt so pampered on my birthday, waking up to a surprise breakfast pack ordered by my Argentinian flatmates!

There was sooo much to eat that I felt like the 2 of us could eat it for 2-3 days for breakfast. They also included the Alfajor, a classic Argentinian sweet which is a Dulce de Leche (burnt condense milk) biscuit sandwich covered with chocolate, Torta de Membrillo (which is like a jam tart), as well as scone with homemade jam!

This was my just-woke-up and being-spoiled happy face.

Later on I requested a super sandwich for my birthday lunch, with fresh bread, pesto, tomato, mozzarella and chicken. We also picked up pizza for dinner (it was promotion Tuesday - 5 euros on all pizza!!) but I was too full after eating my super birthday sandwich. 😂

My 2 lovely friends Steffi and Jon also prepared 2 surprise cakes for me. So much love indeed! 💖

And then a week later ... it's Adri's birthday. (yes we are both scorpios 😆😏)

I prepared Japanese Char Siu (roast pork) rice for dinner before his birthday. It was super easy to make and it turned out to be so delish!

Then in the morning I picked up some fresh croissants after class and made smoked salmon, egg and avocado croissant for birthday breakfast ^_^

Basically we ate sooo much cake in my birthday week that we decided to go for something savoury instead of making a cake.

After that we went to Restaurante Camaleón for a lovely 3-course lunch! It was definitely one of the best restaurant I have been and you can't miss it if you ever come of Spain. See review on Restaurante Camaleón.

You think we ate a lot?

Wait for it.. we also went shopping to make hotpot at night. 😆

We both loveeee hotpot so much and thank god Adri also likes spicy food. I must say it was quite an interesting experience to have hot pot with a Spaniard at home in Spain haha!

On Sunday I also made Basque cheesecake (finally he has a proper birthday cake!) but the pumpkin cake Adri's mum made was also super spongy and homey!