Not this past Saturday, but the one before (the day before the storm), we had a lamb dinner with Marga’s family (uncles, aunts, and some cousins included) at the Centro Extremeño, where we had our wedding party extension. I got some good photos of the meat preparation that I wanted to share before any more time passes.
Raw meat while oven was preheating. Poor little lambs…
Chopped garlic! Yum!
Turning them over in the oven.
Basting video. Mmmm…. Basting…
The final result!
As we left, I had to get a shot of one of the Chinese restaurants in Mondragon that I’ve been wanting to snap for years. Let’s see…what might you call a Chinese restaurant in a town called Mondragon? …. Why, “Mon Dragon”, of course!
This Saturday, we returned to the restaurant where we had our wedding celebration, Etxe Aundi, to eat a dinner for two on the house. Apparently they were pleased with our 10,000€ business. Foie paté to start with… There was more ham, too, but it didn’t survive the time it took me to get out the [...]
On Friday we went to a dinner party at one of Marga’s coworkers’ house. Her husband is a hunter, and they had some pretty freaky things, like weapons and dead things, decorating their house. The coworkers, from left to right: Marga, Marga, Fernando and Ana. Rifle. This knife handle was pretty amazing. Those animals look [...]
Here I was on my sofa, watching some Ruleta de Suerte, a few minutes ago, when they interrupted the program with some breaking news. I was annoyed, assuming that I wouldn’t care about whatever they said, but they proceeded to tell us that, just a few minutes ago, an ETA terrorist shot an ex-councilman, in [...]
What’s the Spanish attitude to vegetarianism, out of interest?
http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/ Erik R.
Spanish vegetarians are about as rare as albino muslims.
My in-laws made a huge deal about my vegetarian cousin coming to my wedding. My father-in-law knew the only vegetarian in town and insisted that she be introduced to my cousin. Because, in his mind, despite not speaking a word in common, they must have so much to talk about! Fortunately, in all the matrimonial hubbub, the awkward meeting never occurred.
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Not this past Saturday, but the one before (the day before the storm), we had a lamb dinner with Marga’s family (uncles, aunts, and some cousins included) at the Centro Extremeño, where we had our wedding party extension. I got some good photos of the meat preparation that I wanted to share before any more time passes.
