Churros are a “sometimes” food. They’re high calorie, high fat, high sugar and low vitamins. And delicious, especially when it’s a bit cold. You make a mixture something like pancake batter, but without egg and thicker, and use a giant syringe to squirt a big spiral of it into hot oil. When it’s fried, you cut it into strips perhaps 6″ long, and serve it with very thick hot chocolate….
Churros are a “sometimes” food. They’re high calorie, high fat, high sugar and low vitamins. And delicious, especially when it’s a bit cold. You make a mixture something like pancake batter, but without egg and thicker, and use a giant syringe to squirt a big spiral of it into hot oil. When it’s fried, you cut it into strips perhaps 6″ long, and serve it with very thick hot chocolate….
Merche Martin and Jorge Beda have an exhibition of their paintings up at the Law school (colegio de abogados) in Santa Cruz de La Palma until the end of the month, called “Parallel Universes”. The exhibition will be open from Monday to Saturday 10:30 – 13:30 and 18:00 – 20:30. Don’t miss it!
Merche Martin and Jorge Beda have an exhibition of their paintings up at the Law school (colegio de abogados) in Santa Cruz de La Palma until the end of the month, called “Parallel Universes”. The exhibition will be open from Monday to Saturday 10:30 – 13:30 and 18:00 – 20:30. Don’t miss it!
Casa Lujan is much more fun than you’d expect from the brochures, which describe it as an “ethnographic museum”. But it’s not a collection of stuff in dusty display cases. It’s an 18th century house, with whole rooms restored to show how the comfortably-off lived between about 1920 and 1960. Even better, there are people “living” in the house. And rather than…
The north of La Palma is one of the best places to see dragon trees. These exotic-looking plants grow throughout the Canary Islands, and also in Cape Verde, the Azores, Maderia, and western Morocco, but on La Palma, they’re still reproducing naturally. The Canary Islands used to have a large, flightless bird, something like a Dodo. This bird ate dragon tree fruits, so the seeds evolved to have a hard protective…