by Debbie Jenkins | Cooking, evergreen, food, Murcia Region, RECIPES
So, here’s a recipe from the Murcian cookery class. Murcian Recipe – Sardinas En Salmuera Sardines (Sardinas)Salt (Sal)Bread (Pan)Tomatoes (Tomate) Clean the sardines, chop off their heads, chop off their tails and remove the innards. Cover them in salt and keep...
by Debbie Jenkins | Cooking, evergreen, food, Murcia Region
Recently I had the pleasure of 8 matronly Spanish ladies teaching me how to cook – the Murcian way. It started out as a Murcian Cookery class, with a teacher and students (me plus the 8 ladies). It ended up as a mad drive through one way streets, with a car full...
by Debbie Jenkins | Cooking, food, Murcia Region, RECIPES
Last year we baked the Murcian Christmas specialty of Cordiales. These are the delicious little almond cakes, with angels’ hair filling. They are very simple to make, fun and sticky, taste scrummy and don’t hang around for long in our house. When you see these in the...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, Fiestas, flora and fauna, food, Murcia Region, The Book, towns
After four more years of research, investigating, enjoying and eating (!) here in Murcia we’ve eventually finished the third edition of our popular book, Going Native In Murcia. This one is a whopper, with 3 times as much information plus town maps. I...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, evergreen, horses
Having always had a burning ambition to be a horsewoman (it’s the spurs and whips that caught my attention) I eventually got round to buying my own horse when I hit my forties. Some people would say I was slightly crazy (especially my husband) for buying a...
