Or just for fun, squirt whipped cream onto a bunch of paper plates and pie yourself in the face, especially if you're feeling like a real clown today.
Our table decided to share a bunch of the small plates.
If you have been to a Barcelona Cava bar, you have probably seen most of these things: a bunch of light, small plates for sharing and a few bigger things from the grill for that moment when the wine inspires a more robust hunger.
The idea, he explained to Monsky's guests, is that "if you get shot a bunch of times, and your plates begin to give way, maybe the American flag will hold.
What to do: Sandwich a bunch of grapes between two plates or lids.
It is there in a salamagundi – which doesn't mean much more than a whole bunch of things on a plate – containing smoked chicken, nuggets of slippery bone marrow and an acidulated horseradish cream, and in a stand-out dish of roast turbot with cockles that shows off these glorious native molluscs to their best advantage.
What to do: Sandwich a bunch of tiny tomatoes between two plates.
So yes, this means you can, for example, build chest muscles by skipping three sets of eight reps on a bench press, and instead doing a few sets of high-rep push-ups to complete failure (which is good to know if you're stuck working out in a hotel room or living room, have no access to a bunch of steel, metal, and weight plates, and still want to build muscle!).
And I bought three bases and a home plate, five bats, a bunch of softballs and gloves.
On the other hand, it seemed too pedestrian to just put wedges of five cheeses on a plate with a bunch of grapes.
