I thought Spain would have taco carts.

This post is especially for a person who I'd like to call "Chef Mozart." He he.
Anyways, the food in Spain is not spicy, so the cuisine and I aren't kindred spirits or anything, but my host family makes simple meals that are probably more delicious than they should be because there are large g a p s between each meal, so you're parched for solids, anything. The Spanish eat hobbit-style. Breakfast, snack, Lunch [@ 2PM], snack, snack, snack, then dinner at 10 or 11 PM. Some other food-related observations before I try to clumsily describe the following dishes:

• Mushrooms are sold all sliced up.
  
• You can buy a bottle of wine for one Euro, which is around $1.45
• Breakfast is definitely not a big deal. Back at home breakfast is the biggest, most leisurely spent meal. Here, I eat a chunk of baguette and drink a gulp of juice on a good day. But in the mornings I pretend I'm a [hungry] traveling gypsy so the theatrics of it all helps me rationalize this change in lifestyle.
• Some individual yogurts are sold in little glass jars. It's the adult version of baby food and it's absolutely fantastic.
• The gelato is crazy good.
• The sodas taste a tad frutier.
  
• Spanish cuisine uses short-grained [sticky] rice as opposed to the long-grained rice used in Latin American countries. Curious.
  
• I'm in Valencia, so yes, the oranges are tangy, sweet, and juicy to perfection.

But I'm not gonna lie...I miss tacos.

[the first night i got there; deep-dish potato omelet they call a tortilla and a salad]

[lunch; rice with chicken and garbanzo beans with a hint of bacon]

[the infamous 10 PM dinner that can never come too soon; pasta with sauteed veggies and bacon]

[lunch; Spanish chili with pasta; this was tasty]

[dinner; fillo baked with eggs 'n potatoes]