Chicken curry and rice. Recipe.

Chicken curry and rice.
Ingredients: 1 red pepper, 1 green pepper, 1 large onion. 2 pieces of garlic. 1 can of tomato pure 2 potatoes. 1 carrot, 1 apple 2 slices of pineapple, Breast of chicken, rice, salt, pepper - 1 cup of cooking cream, 1/2 cup of olive oil, curry powder and curry sauce(if you have it)
1. keeping aside the chicken breast cut in cubes, the pineapple the cooking cream, and the curry, chop or grate the rest into small pieces and place in a pot with a small glass of olive oil and stir fry slowly moving it with a wooden spoon. Add some pieces of chicken breast chopped very finely and leave all the ingredients to cook slowly. After a few minutes, when it starts to cook, add a glass of water but not much. After about half an hour of simmering all the ingredients should look saucy so then you add pineapple and curry sauce and curry powder and simmer for another 10 minutes. Add the cream in the last 2 minutes of simmering. If it looks too chunky you can liquidise it after.
2. Stir fry the chicken breast in a drop of oil on a seperate pan and add a pinch of curry powder. When the chicken is done, thow it into the pot with the other ingredients. ( test it for salting)
3, Serve with boiled white rice and Bon Appetite!!

Montenejos (Castellón)

Ribera de Cabanes. Natural Park and beach

This is an unspoilt beautiful beach where naturalists can relax away from the noise of your average Mediterranean commercial beach. I took these photos on a Monday afternoon on the first week of July with temperatures around 35ºC - I had the whole beach to myself!!

Harry Potter

Well. I reckoned I'd like it this time but it was just a slightly older version of the same story. Why do I always go to see the wrong films for my age?

Benicassim

The coast is full of lovely sandy beaches some are never as full as they may get in other places of high tourist trade.

This scene from Desierto De Las Palmas is beautiful.

The weather is just so nice this year. I remember wanting to get away from this awful heat every year but (touch wood) , the breeze that makes walking along the beach so nice and relaxing has been blowing daily for the past two weeks. I hope we have it all summer.

Recipe for Paella

Ingredients

There are many varieties of paella. The following recipe is the one most people here use( the hometown of Paellas) and it's the one I have most experience with. The ingredients vary: if you can't find something that's listed here, be creative and replace it with something similar. If you like the idea and have the patience for this I will add the fish Paella or MIXED paella but if you're not experienced with it you could end up spending a lot to throw it out! DO NOT USE ONIONS.

Ingredients 4/6 persons

-1/2 glass of olive oil -2 cups of rice (short grain, not the vaporized variety) -5 cups of chicken broth - 8 fresh chicken pieces
- 4 rabbit pieces( if it's wild rabbit only 2 or substitute for more chicken
- 2 ribs in small squares -1 small fresh red pepper - ½ small green pepper- 12 green beans (long flat ones)
- 8-12 haricot beans (like white kidney beans)- 3 pieces of garlic
-2 ripe tomatoes.
-A few saffron threads ( yellow food colouring if don't have)Rosemary ( very liitle(optional)-Salt

Procedure

All this to be done on the same pan. The longer it takes the better. DON'T USE A WOGPut the oil to heat in a large shallow frying pan. When hot add the meat and stir fry on medium gas for about 10 minutes. When the meat starts to cook (Don't worry there's still the boiling to come) Add the garlic, tomatoes and peppers all very fine chopped or grated salt to taste.Leave this simmering on a low pan for a while till the peppers are more or less soft. You then place a drop of chicken broth, just enough to stir and avoid sticking. You can leave this on (within limits) for as long as you like . Place the beans and the rest of the broth, add the saffron and rosemary and bring to the boil for at least 10/15 minutes.
Now the final part . Taste the mixture for salt and remeber the rice will take a lot of the salt taste away but don't over do it . You add the rice to the boiling pan spreading it evenly around.The ratio Broth or water is 1 cup of rice / 2 ½ cups of water. You leave it boiling for about 20 minutes.(DON'T POKE OR MOVE ANYTHING NOW) You can shake the pan to avoid sticking but the sticky part at the bottom is delicious (Sacarat) The access broth should simmer away but keep gas reasonably low till the rice starts turning tender. (about 20 minutes depending on the type of rice). You can then higher the gas to burn off access water but try not add water or it may turn soggy. Voila!

Serving Information
Serves: 4
Fat: ??g
Calories: ??

Recent visit to Brontë Country . (Haworth) Yorkshire

This whole area is covered with beautifully stoned façades- even the smallest of houses-

Why don't they just do it?

I have had some people giving really good and useful opinios about how I could make even better adjustments to this flat. Some of these opinios could actually be done D.I.Y or at least take the high cost away by knocking down a wall which is not too difficult to do. " If I were you I'd do this and that". Love the ideas but why don't they do it for me? ( haha)

Where I live . Castellón Spain.

Will this home refurbishnment ever end?

I have changed home 3 times and each time I opted for a second hand premises in need of some serious refurbishment and changes. Now, in my 3rd home - a four bedroom large flat, seven years later it's still unfinished. Guess what? I'm thinking of moving again!! I have only to put up up the new doors, repaint and finishing touches to the bedrooms without mentioning the wardrobe dilema. ( I don't have any decent wardrobes) Whle having things done I assured to have the possible futuristic caples embeeded in the walls for internet cable TV etc etc. Probably never get to use it but it's there.

21 / 05/ 2007. Ok My new doors are up yippy. It's beginning to look like a real home now.

My place