Lunch with the campers!

This is the 3rd year we have been invited by Rosi and Pablo to join them and their friends for Sunday lunch down by the river where they are camping. Their friends, another 3 families, come from Rosi's village of Valdealgorfa which is 15 kms from here, and set up their tents in exactly the same place around about the same time each year for a long weekend. This has nothing to do with the "credit crunch", it's just the traditional summer holiday.

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The children had been playing in the river but returned in good time for lunch. This time it was a paella con pollo, cerdo y caracoles, (chicken, pork and snails.) All local produce, especially the snails which had been caught the previous day.


Margaret lent a hand preparing the cucumber while the snails simmered.


This was indeed "throw another prawn on the barbi" and they were absolutely delicious along with olives, crab and pickled onions on sticks and sepia, (cuttlefish), as appetisers. Sepia is a fantastic food - no gristle, no waste, easy to cook, it tastes great, especially with a garlic and olive oil dressing, and it just melts in your mouth. It's very low fat too, (apart from the dressing!)


Now that's what I call a paella. Note the cocktail stick for getting the snails out of their shells. Delicious!