me me

You have changed your tune, in your other post you said that you didn´t have the eggs benedict because you could not get muffins.

Now it appears that you don´t have a window of time for an English breakfast.

I don´t need to be told the eating timetable in Asturias, it is the same as Galicia.

But when we are there we don´t feel the need to stick ridgedly to the "timetable".

I think I am confused and this is possibly the "Plastic Spanish" thread.

Because the following quote, is the pinnacle of "plastic Spanishness"

There is no space for English breakfast in our timetable.

jackytoo

No space for an English brekky but he can post on here for hours.

Couldn't eat eggs benedict to save my life Only eat eggs scrambled or as an omelette.

Quite like churros but without the chocolate. Some Spanish I know eat some really sweet pastries for breakfast.

me me

Nothing like being the captain of your own ship is there?

I like to decide my timetable, not just go along with others, because we must have the bocadillo at 11, etc or because the rest of the sheeple in the pueblo do it.

I think the dog should wag the tail and not the tail wag the dog.

Retired in Euskadi

Lucky you. I guess bitter oranges are the same anywhere, just that the English seem to call them "Seville", though doubtless they're from Valencia.
We did pass one April through villages south of the Sierra de Gredos with orange trees & fruit lining the streets. We picked several kilos to make marmalade when nobody was looking.
I have to keep ringing Leclerc in St Jean de Luz late December onwards to when they have them on the shelves to buy.

me me

Isn´t he the one who knows where the painting of the Madonna with the Big Boobies is hidden?

jackytoo

Loads of Sevilla type oranges in the streets on the CDS. I had 3 trees in the garden and used to make marmalade. Really miss it. I used to give away loads of jars and still had enough for the year. It was really dark, made some with peel in and some without. In most places the oranges are left to rot.

Lynn R

We see plenty of bitter oranges on sale in the markets and fruterias here. Ayuntamiento workers come round every year and remove the oranges from the trees in the streets, then gather them all up for throwing away. It seems a waste but people have said they aren't safe to eat because the trees are sprayed with pesticides. I've seen them removing the oranges in Sevilla, too.

Fred James

That's right. Look at the link I posted earlier

http://www.sevilla.org/ayuntamiento/...ranja-amarga-1

They have an annual "cull" of the ripe oranges which I understand all go to the marmalade factories in the UK.

crookesey

I don't live to eat, I prefer quality to quantity, I actually like to place what I wish to eat on my plate. Tapas really suits me, as does a 6 ounce very dark rib-eye steak with new potatoes and salad. As for English breakfast, mine would be two rashers of dry cured bacon, a new laid egg and tomatoes. I've always been the same about huge portions of food, there was a very good fish and chip shop near my office that did a small fish and chips, plenty for me.

I has a small lamb shank with mediterranean vegetables and saute potatoes for Sunday lunch, it was very nice, as both I and Molly the dog can confirm. We will be in Spain in a few weeks, that is me and the wife, and a shared sea food platter will be on the agenda, as will whitebait and those lovely suckling pig chops, but we will probably share each portion, well at least we agree about something.

Lynn R

That's good, I hope ours are used for that purpose too, much better than throwing away perfectly usable fruit.

I'm afraid making marmalade comes within the "life's too short" category for me, but I hardly ever eat it and one jar would probably last me a year.

Fred James

If anyone wants to try it, I have a superb recipe (based on a Delia original) for real old fashioned English marmalade - the Coopers Oxford sort.

It's easy to make. If anyone wants it PM me.

Cape Blue

Still no Indian in the Chic area? That's a shame, I thought I remembered one opening up in Atlantera for a while a few years back. There was a Chinese in Conil back in the day - mediocre, but when there was nothing else around.

Dick Dasterdly

When it comes to embracing international cuisine most of the Spanish especially the older generation are still living way back in the dark ages.

Out here in the sticks the mere mention of foreign food is viewed with the greatest suspicion.

jimenato

Here they have taken to pizzas - not much else.

agoreira

Our Spanish friends have made friends with people from all over the EU (mainly Brits), have travelled to UK to stay with these friends many times, so fairly well travelled etc. However if I mention going down the coast for an Indian or a Chinese, they pull a face that clearly tells me they won't be joining us, we'll be on our own! Nothing against Spanish food, that's pretty much all we eat when there, but I'd much prefer a decent Chinese than some of their boring bloody migas.