FoodGasm Friday: On The Spanish Snail Trail!

The weekend is almost here and you know what that means, It’s time for another Fooooooooodgasssm Friiiiiday (Just thought like making it a little more dramatic this week).

So I just got back from 11 day trip to Spain for TBEX travel blogging conference in Costa Brava and boy did I eat a lot of food, and I mean ALOT, I honestly felt like I was going to go into some kind of deep food coma by the time my trip was over. There is such a great variety of delicious fresh mouth watering food in Spain.

Today I wanted to start with something a little of the main culinary track, and on to the snail trail (No not that kind of snail trail haha), the garden dwelling kind.

Snail or cargols in Spanish are a popular dish in Catalonia. I first encountered this European delicacy when I was in the small town of Arbúcies getting my geek on for the Woods, Witches, and Bandits festival. The second was in a beautiful little restaurant called La Sala restaurant in the Llemena Valley near Girona.

Upon first inspection, I was curious and excited. As eating unique and interesting foods, is something I’m always keen for, ever since I ate Cuy (Guinea Pig) in Peru.

However, as a local Spanish man menacingly swirled his wooden spoon through a giant bowl snails, cooked in a heavenly smelling tomato based sauce. I couldn’t help but get transported back to my childhood playing in an Australian garden collecting snails that looked pretty much identical with their coiled deep brown colored shells.