Both Xmas Eve dinner and Xmas Day lunch have been awesome. My relatives surely know how to cook. My grandparents were also visiting and, believe me, I'd give an arm to be so lucid as my grandfather is at 89. Seriously. I had some arguments over coffee because my uncles are plain racist people. Not to mention they're anti-Catalans (so why did they come here?) and basically very conservative people. The cousins my age are also right-wingers and so topical in their behavior that it's like feeling with aliens. But hey, as
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niebuck says, I'd miss this if I didn't have it so I'm not complaining (let me just vent!).
My aunt Josefa really outdid herself yesterday. She's the best cook in the family. As starters we had:
- Jamón.
- Cecina (Jamón but made from beef)
- Dry manchego cheese
- Dry pork loin
- Grilled prawns with garlic/parsley
- Camarones (mini-prawns)
- Clams
- Mussels
As main dish, we had an awesome roast-beef-like roast meat, but she used the same pieces you would use for entrecôtes. As gravy, she only served the own roasting juices (which I prefer over gravy)
Desserts: walnuts, dried fruits, turrón and the like
Drinks: super awesome white wine from Alella (near the place
ursine1 lives) and red wines from Ribera del Duero
On Xmas lunch, it was my uncle's compromise. He has a restaurant-bar, so we ate there, because it was more convenient. We had as starters:
- Baby lettuce (cogollos) with anchovies and premium tuna
- Jamón, cecina and lomo (hehehe)
- Grilled prawns
- Pulpo a feira (boiled octopus which you eat with paprika, coarse salt and olive oil on top)
As mains, his partner ("wife" but they aren't married) had prepared some roast which was awesome, close to the way I cook it (the large piece of meat and a lot of vegetables that also get roasted at the same time, which then you grind to make the "gravy")
As dessert, as usual, the typical turrón and dried fruits.
The good thing here is that my uncle has an awesome coffee machine at the bar, so I had 4 expressos. And they were super-awesome.
Tomorrow I'm going to Figueres to see Sergio. I was invited by his family (in fact I helped them bring their parents) but I'm having lunch alone with my mother tomorrow. St. Stephen's day (or Boxing Day) is also a Holiday in Catalonia :)
My mother is actually working most of the holidays, so this year she isn't cooking at her place. Maybe for Epiphany, although we will probably get the food from somewhere
