Stuffed Piquillo Peppers This is a fantastic dish, as a tapa, side dish or even a main course. Piquillo Peppers can be stuffed with meat, fish, rice, potato or a mixture of the lot. There is no end to the variations, however; there are some standard piquillo pepper dishes that you will find everywhere in […]
Author: Robbie
Costa del Sol Noche de San Juan
The Costa del Sol prepares to celebrate theNoche de San Juan on its beaches again It’s great that the world is returning to some normality; political skulduggery and war aside. Spain, a place where a party is always welcome, is getting back into the spirit of things. I was reading the Sur in English, a […]
Calima – A Whitewash That Even Sue Gray Report Can’t Beat!
Whitewashed Axarquia town provides 12,500 kilos of paint to residents The council in Almáchar applied to the provincial, regional and national governments for financial assistance but received no response, so despite “limited economic resources” it has stumped up the cash itself. The successive episodes of calima – airborne dust from the Sahara desert – in […]
Menu del Dia – A Great Feast for 20€
MENU DEL DIA – A CHOICE BETWEEN McDONALDS AND REAL FOOD As is the norm for a lot of ex-pats, eating out during the hot summer days, just has to be done. Fast food is fine and pretty cheap but, there is another option; menu del Dia. Menú del día, or menu of the day, […]
Doggy Bags to be made Compulsary in Spain
LIVING IN SPAIN IS A DOG’S LIFE SOMETIMES As somebody who often takes food home for the dogs in the campo area (countryside), this is great news. Restaurants in Spain will have to offer clients doggy bags for their uneaten food. The Spanish government has approved a new law to prevent food waste, including rules […]
Strawberry Supermoon 2022 Over Nerja
It is the aim of this blog to bring you news stories, happy stories, Spanish food recipes, what’s on in Nerja and all sorts of other items which we hope you will find interesting, amusing or helpful. Our primary source for news is the Sur in English. ‘The Sur’ as we ex-pats call it, is […]