Christmas

Christmas Eve

Here are some of the photos of our meal on Christmas Eve:

table laid, getting ready

clams “a la marinera”

 

salad: watercress, tomatoes, cucumber, little gem lettuce, quails eggs and anchovy

very tender sirloin, baby carrots, caramelised red onions

scraping out the ice cream tub

• we started with a consommé, see blog entry 27th December
• serrano ham and cured pork loin
• clams “a la marinera” (the photo is actually from another post, I didn’t have a chance to take one of the ones I did on Christmas Eve)
• salad
• sirloin steak (it was the tenderest steak I have ever had) Sara and I had ours pink, almost blue and Juan Pedro, Jean and Danny, rare
• wine: Pago de Carraovejas and Arzuaga, both Ribera del Duero
• vanilla ice cream for dessert

(I can thoroughly recommend my butcher, Manolo, from Meva y Llorente in the Plaza Mayor in Santa Marta, although it’s a long way for some of you!!)