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Nikola has a really nice blog for you about Spanish food at Christmas time! Take notes of this recipe and try it out

In Spanish, Christmas Eve is called “La Noche Buena,” which literally translates as “The Good Night.” In Spain it is celebrated with a large family feast, which is eaten late in the evening and can last a couple hours. Some families attend midnight mass before or after the meal, although many are still finishing dining and sat around the table at midnight! In Spain, Christmas Eve is a time for celebrating in neighbourhood bars and cafes, and spending time with family and friends. It is not a time for giving gifts or for Santa Claus. Those traditions don’t begin until January 6th, which is called ‘Epiphany’ and which is also another religious holiday.
There are a wide variety of traditional foods that you will find served up across Spain on this particular night and each region has its own different specialties. It is particularly common for Christmas dinner in Spain to start with a seafood dish such as prawns or salmon, followed by a bowl of hot homemade soup.

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Good afternoon everyone!

Last weekend I went back home to see my family and catch up on all things English…after 3 years in Spain I sometimes start to forget what my country looks like!  On the plane home, I began imagining all the wonderful English treats I was going to gorge myself with once in my homeland! 

So, you can imagine my complete astonishment when I arrived home to find that my mum had made an enormous Paella for us for dinner!!!  To make me feel ‘at home’…  I have to admit, though, that it was absoultely DELICIOUS!  It appears that mum had got the recipe from a friend of a friend of a friend who’s aunty is Spanish…and well it really was very tasty and totally authentic. (more…)

No sé si lo sabíais pero el viernes pasado, viernes santo, según la tradición católica no se podía comer carne.

I do not know if you knew but last Friday, Good Friday, according to the Catholic tradition, we could not eat meat.

En muchos restaurantes, en el mercado y en el supermercado, probablemente habéis visto la palabra “bacalao”.

Probably you have seen the word “bacalao” (cod) in many restaurants, in the market and in the supermarket.

El bacalao es un pescado blanco que aquí en España se come de una manera diferente.

Cod is a white fish that here in Spain is eaten in a different way.

El bacalao se seca y se sala durante un periodo de tiempo y se come curado en ensaladas y con diferentes tipos de salsa.

The cod is dried and salted during a period of time and you eat it cured in salads and with different types of sauces.

Como sabéis, yo soy del sur y en Málaga hay un plato típico de la región que se come mucho especialmente en primavera y verano porque es muy refrescante y además no engorda nada de nada : La ensalada malagueña.

As you know, I come from the south and in Málaga there is a tipic plate of the region that it is eaten specially in Spring and Summer because it is very refreshing and has no calories at all : La ensalada Malagueña.

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Last Saturday it was very sunny, so some friends and me decided to go to have some tapas in my local bar and enjoy the sun. The “tortilla de patatas” looked good so we decided to have a “pincho” (a triangle) with a cold beer (nothing better in a sunny day) and started talking about how easy it is to cook and how good it tastes.

It is interesting but everybody had some, but no everybody knows exactly how and what it is made of. La tortilla de patatas is the perfect dish to prepare for inviting friends to a party, to enjoy on the beach or to have for lunch or dinner, it tastes also good cold or hot, in a sandwich or with some salad, with ketchup, mayonaise or on its own.

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¿Celebras San Valentín? Mañana es 14 de febrero y en toda Europa y Estados Unidos se celebra el día de los enamorados. Los escaparates de las tiendas se llenan de corazones rojos y la publicidad nos incita a comprar, comprar, comprar artículos románticos que no sirven para nada, perfumes, cajas de bombones, corazones de peluche… Por obligación tienes que salir a cenar con tu pareja y sentirte feliz en este día (o desgraciado/a si estás solo/a).

Do you celebrate Saint Valentine’s? Tomorrow is the 14th of February and in the whole Europe and United States the day of love is celebrated. The shop windows are full of red hearts and publicity forces us to buy, buy, and buy romantic articles which are completely unuseful, perfumes, chocolates… You really feel like YOU HAVE TO go out for dinner with your partner and feel happy this day (or sad if you are alone!)

En España es una tradición bastante reciente, probablemente llegó aquí por influencia del mercado americano, aunque no lo celebramos con tanta devoción como en otros países vecinos.

In Spain it is quite a recent tradition, we probably got it influenced by the American market, however we do not celebrate it with so much passion as in other neighbour countries.

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Ingredientes para una jarra:

• 1 litro de vino tinto (no hace falta que sea caro o muy bueno)
• El zumo de dos naranjas
• 4 melocotones a trozos (sin piel)
• 5 cucharadas de azúcar
• 2 cortezas de limón
• Un poco de canela

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