Food

Well, friends, we had such a lazy day yesterday and never left the house.   Actually, I did.   I took the rubbish to the collection point just up the road.   We have done a great deal of reading since we came and yesterday we read even more!   This was, of course, in between swimming in the pool.

The views here are so good.   In one direction we look across a valley to the village of Comares perched high up at the top of a mountain.   We have visited it once on a previous holiday.   It is an ancient site where originally a fortress was built.   Its position is impregnable because the only way to it is up a very steep slope.   In fact you can see it all over the countryside.   As we drive down to the hypermarket we keep seeing it from the road.   Last year we could even see it from the other side from miles away when we visited Moclinejo.   The view of Comares from here changes as the sun changes position throughout the day.   The best view is in the late afternoon.

Looking in another direction we see Mount Maroma, a huge mountain often hidden in mist in a morning.   It is very paintable and I have done some photos for Pauline to paint it sometime.   Going farther round we get stupendous views of amazing high solid rock faces which look at their best when the shadows etch out their contours.

Then there is the silence, broken only by dogs barking in the log farm below, a donkey braying on another farm or a vehicle passing us in the lane.   Peace, perfect peace!

Now to report on the food we had last night.   Pauline had wanted each night this last week to have Mediterranean Chicken, a recipe from some years ago.   We found it in an old M & S recipe book many years ago.   It is meant to be done as a grille but the oven doesn't have one.   I roasted some chicken drumsticks and then added cooked rice, onions and mushrooms and bacon strips.   As a grille the time is about 45 minutes.   In the oven it took 2 hours!   Mind you, it tasted wonderful!!!

Having watched Nadiya on her travels in Bangladesh, I knew that you could still cook food in very different circumstances and with different equipment.   It worked!

Tomorrow we are going to visit the village of Perdiana, half way between us and Velez-Malaga.