Archivos de March, 2007
SARAH’S BEEF STEW
Mar 18
1kg stewing steak (cut into cubes)
2 onions
4 cloves of garlic
5 carrots
2 sticks of celery
1/2 kilo button mushrooms
Red pepper
Handful of olives
3/4 litre of beef stock
Glass of red wine (That’s 4 glasses for you and one for the stew!)
parsley and provincial herbs
Teaspoon grainy mustard (optional)
A few flakes of Chilli (optional)
Cornflour
THE FALLAS ARE COMING: THE CITY SMELLS OF GUN POWDER
Mar 1
March is about to start and so are the sunny days and this peculiar smell which fills the city. No, we’re not at war, that’s just the gun powder of the jumping crackers, of the traca, of the mascletas and the fireworks which fill the city with a smell which we Valencians have in our venes and which makes us feel alive.
The Fallas are acted out on the streets, from 1st of March until the 19th, every day at 2 p.m. there’s a mascletà at the Pl. Ayuntamiento. The mascletas last about twenty minutes and consist of millions of high potential jumping crackers which explode. The noise and the smell of gun powder join each other until the end of the mascletà.
