Spanish food at home

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Thanks to the very interesting YouTube channel Spain on a Fork  my repertoire of Spanish Tortilla has expanded beyond the basic tortilla de patata.

Today I tried making Tortilla Murciana de Verduras, which is not only delicious, it's also low-carb and suitable for Lenten Friday dinners. (Contains no meat.) 

This was so good! It includes bell peppers, onion, garlic, spinach, and Baby Bella mushrooms. 

Recap of Camino Primitivo: Lugo was a rest day

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I think that Lugo was talked about with some detail in the en route posts. Today I will only put up some photos that I think were not in the first discussion.

Breakfast pastry and coffee the morning of our rest day. The pastry has vegetables in it, if I remember it correctly.

The game board from the Roman house museum. The ancient Roman house, or its successor buildings, had been used off and on almost continuously for well over 1000 years.

Wine with our dinner on the rest day. The little bit of pastry is the last of a "New Mother's Cake" which was custard and chocolate in a crust. Very tasty!

A small break from Camino posts

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A couple of south Texas items:

A really pretty moth we saw on our porch:

Isn't he something?

And we had a cold snap, which meant covering tender plants and moving some inside.

The dragon fruit cactus, inside of a sheet. We also added
incandescent Christmas lights to it.

And to finish off, we saw a very bold squirrel at Bentsen Park a few days ago:

Can you see what he's holding in his right front paw?

Recap of Primitivo: Day 6 to Fonsagrada (updated: day 7)

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We left Grandas de Salime heading down the road to Fonsagrada. The prior, en-route post showed some of the things we passed. 

We walked past more fans on this day. 

Another thing that we noticed was that, even though the days were getting shorter and chillier, there were many beautiful flowers and other plants.

Some blooming begonias

A stand of pretty mushrooms

It was fairly chilly that day. Not all of my layers of clothing are visible in this picture. The Buff was very helpful keeping my ears warm and preventing earaches.

In the prior post, there was a photo of the beef cheeks we ate for dinner that night. They were so good that we have learned how to do this at home.

Recap of Primitivo, day 5: Berducedo to Grandas de Salime (updated: day 6)

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After a busy week-and-some, it's time to return to the Camino Primitivo walk.

We woke up in Berducedo and everything was enveloped in a cold fog. We bundled up and headed out. It was so foggy that when we passed windmills we couldn't see them. We did hear the WHOOMP WHOOMP sounds they make.

The fog lifted a little and after a couple or three kilometers we came to another albergue, which had an open bar/coffee shop. We settled in for some toast and coffee, the toast was oven made and huge and very welcome. We did meet some other pilgrims while there, a couple of ladies who arrived after we did. After enjoying a few words with each other, as we were through eating, we left, donning our huge blue ponchos and headed out into the cold again. This was probably the coldest day of the pilgrimage.

When the fog lifted we came to the descent to the famous dam: Embalse de Grandas de Salime, which seems to take its name from the nearby town of Grandas de Salime. The en-route post discussed the strong winds, I think. 

A view of the canyon from the top of the descent. The path left the road here, and went on "well marked forest paths"--clear path but not much in the way of forest due to a forest fire some years back--zigzagging down to the level of the dam, then returned to pavement to cross over and after that for quite some way. We elected to stay with the pavement when the path left it again as the grade was much more comfortable than the climb we saw from the road. We did, of course, keep well to the left of the road and walk single file on the twisty pavement into the town.

These are some more photos from their Ethnographic Museum there. 

A detail shot of the traditional footwear of the region, which is both elevated above the mud and water resistant.

And a look at some of the soda factory equipment from the past. 

The church in the town was under major refurbishment. As it was now past October 15, very few places to stay were open. We slept in the albergue at the entrance to the town. They have a kitchen and a good-sized eating area.