A CRISP & SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY;

SATURDAY 5^TH / DECEMBER 2015.

We had a nice lie in this morning as the village was quiet, the sun was out early and the sky is blue, its crisp but still very pleasant; we then had our favourite breakfast of fresh ‘Campo’ Poached Eggs on Toast, they arrived last night still warm and ‘dirty’! See the picture below of Brenda’s famous 
dish!!

‘Barny’ arrived a little later and is with us until Tuesday evening ‘Chispa’ then shot in and has been playing with him and we then went for a good walk with both of them around the lower part of the village; this evening ‘Scruffy’ is due with us for a sleep over.

At lunchtime Mano called in for a chat and gossip so he’s gone off with a ‘take out’ of my ‘Minestrone’ soup for his supper this evening as he’s working on the night shift at the ‘Manilva Green Aparthotel’ as the Night Manager; this weekend here in Spain is a long Bank Holiday until Wednesday as its the “ Constitution’ Day on Sunday & 'Immaculate Conception' on Tuesday.

At the moment in the ‘Premiere League’ over in England Stoke are at home to Manchester City in the early kick off, then on Sunday Liverpool travel to Newcastle and on Monday Everton are at home too Crystal Palace; over here today in ‘La Liga’ Real Madrid welcome their neighbour’s Getafe while Valencia welcome Barcelona in Gary Neville's’ first game as the Manager of Valencia!

For our supper this evening we are having one of the old classics from the past; “ Steak Diane “ which I will make ‘A La Carte’ style this evening, the trimmed Entrecote Steaks are flattened a little and then well seasoned and smeared with French Mustard before searing them in the pan in Butter, they are then left to rest on the side, as the sauce is made with Sliced Mushrooms & Onions, a little chopped Garlic, a good slug of ‘Red Wine’ ( thanks Brenda!) and some secret ingredient’s before adding the Steaks back in the pan and flaming with a good glass of Brandy, then the double Cream & Chopped Parsley is added to finish off the sauce. We are having whole Baby Green Beans and some twice-cooked ‘Frits’ See below;

Last night we had a evening of channel hopping on English TV, in the late afternoon on ‘TVE2 ( like BBC2!) we found an episode of ‘Great Continental Railway Journeys ’with Michael Portillo, he went from Valencia to Madrid, then down to Cordoba and onto Seville on the fast trains before carrying onto Jerez, he then went up to Ronda and finally down the old English built track to Algeciras, the end of the line, before ending up in Gibraltar! As he’s half Spanish he talks to people in a ‘correct’ Spanish but with no dialect, its very interesting and informative at the same time.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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