QUINOA WITH APRICOT AND NUTS, VEGAN RECIPE

This morning I went with a friend to Las Gabias Golf Club to practice, I started 2 years ago, still I'm on handicap 36, and it's a difficult sport, but it's so nice, all the greens, the  lakes, when the countryside is so dry and yellow, it makes me feel a little like at home.  We had breakfast at the club house, runned by the ovner of a very nice restaurant  San Cayetano in Churriana , a village outside Granada. Everyday a 3 dishes menu for lunch, nice tapas, and from the terrace a wonderful view over the Golf Court and countryside, life can't be better.

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After 3 hours practicing, I feel so good and I think I will participate in the "Liga de damas" this year, durig 10 months from September ,a championship once a month for the ladies at our Golf Club.

My husband Armando plays since 30 years ago, so I have to pick up a bit here, I started so many times, but the work in my shop, all the travel, my customers, so much to hang my fingers  on, I really  coudn't find the time to continue.

But now, no shop, no travel to fairs, I do some free-lance decotating, but have enough time to dedicate a morning or two every week to the golf, and I'm so happy I didn't give up this time.

We where in The Lofoten Icelands in Norway last year, and met some "girls" there, they travelled by boat for 1 hour, then by car from another hour to play golf , in the summer you can play 24 hous a day, by the midnight-sun, quite a lot of incovenienc to practice a sport, and they said " Don't give up", here we have the best Golf Courts, the best weather, so at that moment I promised myself, and the " girls", even if I'm never going to be a 0 hancicap player, I won't give up this time. Have a look at :


www.lofoten-golf.no

Manolito ended up like this.

We had such fun yesterday, Manolito was so interested in our fish lunch, and the quinoa recipe had to wait, but here it comes;

Shopping-list:

Quinoa.                              ( quinoa)
2 o 3 albaricoques.             ( apricots)
2 dientes de ajo.                 ( garlic cloves)
3 cucharas de piñones.       ( pine kernels)
3 cucharas de arandanos.   (Cranberries)
2 cucharas de AOVE.        ( virgen extra olive oil)
Sal                                      ( salt)
Comino.                             (Cummin)

Start rincing the quinoa, I use a lot of it, and do a couple of handfuls, and keep the rest in the fridge for salads or woks,. Cook for 12 min. , take away from the heat, but leave it for another 5 min. before you     &nbsp strain , and save.
In a dry frying-pan toast the pine kernel , 4-5 min. and save.
Then peel and chop the garlic cloves, the apricots and the cranberries finly, have  a little olive oil in a frying-pan, middle heat, fry the garlic first, carefully it must not be burnt, then add the apricots. In the time of fresh apricots you use the fresh ones, peeled, rest of the year use the dried ones, now it's a little late, so I used nectarina instead, peach will also do ( must not be soft).
Add the quinoa, the cummin and the cranberries, give it 2-3 min. to heat, and add the pine kernels.
Last week in Almuñecar, my friend Pedro, the owner of a vegetable and fruit shop, gave me a packet of mustard leaves, I didn't know very well what to use it for, but I chopped it and added it to the quinoa, and it worked out wonderfully.
This dish is best served temperate, but next day, if you have lefties, I find it good at room temperature, if not put in the micro wave for some seconds.

It was even a big box, so the next night I made an omelette adding the mustard leaves,  (chopped) I recomend you to try it, an easy and tasty dish, just with some tomato slices on top, and a nice piece of bread. E

The quinoa with mustard leaves.

From Pedro's Frutas y Verduras
Cariñena, 18
Almuñecar

By the pool-

Summer reading in the after.noon.

SATURDAY GOLF AND FAVABEANS WITH SERRANO HAM

MY HUSBAND AT HOLE 8 GRANADA CLUB DE GOLF

This morning my husband and I were going to do some golf-training, we have two 18 hole golf courses in Granada, Granada Club de Golf, situated in Las Gabias, this was the first golf course in Granada, and Santa Clara Golf Club , situated in Otura 14 km from Granada, in Motril you have another, Club de Golf Los Moriscos, 9 hole ,and right on the sea-side, only 40 km from Granada.

THE WIEW FROM GRANADA CLUB DE GOLF, LAS GABIAS.

In the winter time you have the wiew of the snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains from all of them,lots of sunny days , but the temperature in the winter in Granada always is a bit lower than by the cost, Granada is on the hight of  700 meters , then in summertime you can expect it to be quite hot. April, May and June spring and early summer is a beautiful time to come, and please don't come 1 day to see the Alhambra, witch is the most impressing and well- known monument,stay with us, walk in the old town, eat some tapas , do some skiing, golfing, hiking , horse-riding, water-sports, see  some other museums and monuments, go for a flamenco night.

All 3 Golf Clubs has a Pro-Shop, a Golf  School, and proper restaurant where you can have a nice breakfast, some snack, as the tapas Granada is so famous of, lunch, or even dinner, refreshments and drinks. The terraces are really wonderful , with wiews over the golf course and the countryside around.

MYSELF AT  GRANADA CLUB DE GOLF

I am just a beginner, but my husband plays golf since 1980, I was always working in my beloved decoration store , or traveling  to trade fairs, or with customers, will come back to this  some other time,  now I go to Golf School, and we are a nice group who learn together, play together, and sometimes have a refreshment together, and always laugh together, which is the most important.

On our way home there was a young lady with a small wan on the side of the country-road, selling fava beans , asparagus and spring onion, so we bought a lot of  all 3..

FRESH SPRING ONION

The fava beans we cooked for lunch, i'm going to tell you how, where delisious, so soft and with that little bittersweet taste in the end, it's that Granada has the finest fava beans, the season is very short, so we buy a lot, shell them and freeze for the rest of the year, and the best ones, we find bypeople who has a small land and grow, harvest and sell the beans by the roads themselves.

LOTS OF SHELL, YOU MUST BUY 1 1/2 KG FAVA BEANS PR. PERSON

We took the whole lot out in the sun, a little drink and some music, and you will finish in time for making a real splendid lunch,

HABAS FRITAS CON JAMON

HAVE A PIECE OF BREAD ASIDE AND A LITTLE  GLASS OF RIBERA DEL DUERO RED WINE.

 2 persons

3 kg habas    (fava beans)
2 cebolletas   (spring onions)
200 gr. jamon serrano (serrano ham)
2 dl virgen extra olive oil
1 ts sal     (salt, I dont use much salt depends on how salty the serrano ham is)
2 or 3 dientes de ajo (garlic cloves)
2 huevos (eggs)

THIS IS ALL YOU NEED.

SHOP IT LIKE THIS.

THEN IN THE POT LIKE THIS.

 Let cook in the olive oil for about 10 min, try for the salt taste, and serve with a fried egg on each plate, together with some nice white bread. I  use to take away the olive oil , but you can save it to cook an other meal of favas, but use it again within a week or so.




For more information if you want to play golf in Granada,
Web site of Granada Club de Golf :   www.granadaclubdegolf.com