HALLOWEEN

Halloween is celebrated on October 31st every year. The holiday began as a Celtic festival from Ireland called Samhain. Halloween became more popular worldwide with the start of the Christian holiday called All Saints Day. Halloween is traditionally a holiday that is meant to ward off evil spirits. During the time of the Celtic traditions, people would carve out scary faces and figures in giant turnips, place a candle inside, and set in their windows to scare away evil ghosts and enemies on Halloween.

Nowadays the turnips have been replaced by orange pumpkins, but the carving tradition is still continued, as well as lighting the pumpkins on the night of Halloween. The traditional colours that are used for most decorations for Halloween are black and orange. There are certain characters that are associated with Halloween: ghosts, witches, skeletons, vampires, werewolves, bats and black cats.

I WITH YOU A HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

LUCIO'S HOUSE

If you travel to Madrid, you can’t leave it without eating at Lucio’s house. It’s a traditional family restaurant situated on Cava Baja Street.

There are a lot of different types of food in its menu: vegetables, meat, soups, and all of them are delicious. The desserts are also wonderful, and you always want to repeat. If you go there, it’s worth eating the famous “huevos estrellados” dish.

Some famous people are regular customers of the restaurant, such as politics, singers, actors, actresses...

It’s open every day.

Don’t waste time, make a reservation!

Here there is a link of the oficial page of the restaurant.

TIGER NUT MILK

Here is it the recipe of tiger nut milk, a cold and sweet drink, essential in summer.

INGREDIENTS:

-        250 g tiger nuts (I buy them in Tortosa’s market)

-        180 g Sugar

-        1 l Water

PROCESS:

-       Clean the tiger nuts very well, rinsing them in clean water.

-     When they are completely clean, set them to soak in a lot of cold water for 24 hours.

-      After this time, rinse the tiger nuts again in clean water, changing the water until it is completely clear, and then drain off all the water.

-        Mash the tiger nuts or put them in a blender, to make them into a soft paste.

-       Add the water and the sugar, previously mashed, and stir them.

-     Now, pass the mix through a metal strainer, and then through a wet cloth filter until the liquid does not have any large particles.

-        Let it sit in a fridge for 2 hours and serve it.

You can also serve the tiger nut milk like an ice-cream. Simply put it in the freezer.