Salami.. Two very different Salame.
The first Salame to be featured in this tale was a spicy chorizo and had been made for her by Maria La Gorda, Constance's dear friend, who was the butcher's wife.
She was going back to London and had left her luggage with the wrapped salame on the top of her basket by the front door whilst she went to say goodbye to Antonio who was working in the garden.
BeepBeep.. the car horn sounded.. she hugged her old friend and went up into the house.
Hugo called out "I've got your luggage, come on". She jumped in and off they drove to the airport.
Whoosh, checked in and boarded.. good flight.. back home to the flat, she collected her mail from the main house. We didn't have the crazy upstairs neighbour in those days so everyone's mail was safe!
Time to unpack and to put the Salame into the kitchen. But where was it, for it was not in her basket, she even checked inside her case but there was no Salame anywhere.
There were no telephones in those days.. hard to remember that she used to write AirMail letters to her parents! So she wrote saying "Haha.. very naughty to pinch my Chorizo, you had better get Maria to make two for me when I come back next month!"
Her letter crossed mid-air with Hugo's, he said that Constance was still laughing too much to write properly!
And this is why..
The day after she left, her parents were walking the dogs over the back hills and they stopped to have coffee with Antonio and Ana.
Ana loved Honey and bent down to stroke her head and then stopped and said "Poo Honey, you stink of garlic, what have you been eating?"
Well, Dear Readers, you know what she had been eating, don't you? She had eaten the whole thing, paper, string, even the little metal tab that Maria used to attach to her wonderful Chorizo Salame!
The second Salame was made last night!
The night before, she and I were lolling about in bed, we had had an early supper and were reading, or rather, she was reading and I was sitting on her head having a good scratch and dry-cleaning my wings.
The television was on and we saw a pretty woman demonstrating how to make a delicious chocolate dish. It was Nigella Lawson, whom we have never seen on the television before.
"Sorry Nigella, we have never watched your programmes before but we will now".
Yesterday morning, she went online to get the recipe, then went to get a couple of ingredients from Lidl, she loves their own brand chocolate and had an idea to make an extra special sausage with a line of 'lard' running through it.
An easy recipe to make, it requires a really good length of time to harden, (she put them in the freezer over night and then moved them into the fridge), before you can string them up to make it look like a proper Salame.
Nigella made one huge one, my mum has made five out of each batch, the first batch was made with Amaretto liqueur and chopped nuts, the second was made with Cointreau and chopped crystallised ginger and orange peel.
She was going to give something else as gifts to local friends and work colleagues but she knows them all well enough to know they love a good
'Salame'.
Just like Honey did!
GeeGee Parrot.
December 20th, 2014.
The first Salame to be featured in this tale was a spicy chorizo and had been made for her by Maria La Gorda, Constance's dear friend, who was the butcher's wife.
She was going back to London and had left her luggage with the wrapped salame on the top of her basket by the front door whilst she went to say goodbye to Antonio who was working in the garden.
BeepBeep.. the car horn sounded.. she hugged her old friend and went up into the house.
Hugo called out "I've got your luggage, come on". She jumped in and off they drove to the airport.
Whoosh, checked in and boarded.. good flight.. back home to the flat, she collected her mail from the main house. We didn't have the crazy upstairs neighbour in those days so everyone's mail was safe!
Time to unpack and to put the Salame into the kitchen. But where was it, for it was not in her basket, she even checked inside her case but there was no Salame anywhere.
There were no telephones in those days.. hard to remember that she used to write AirMail letters to her parents! So she wrote saying "Haha.. very naughty to pinch my Chorizo, you had better get Maria to make two for me when I come back next month!"
Her letter crossed mid-air with Hugo's, he said that Constance was still laughing too much to write properly!
And this is why..
The day after she left, her parents were walking the dogs over the back hills and they stopped to have coffee with Antonio and Ana.
Ana loved Honey and bent down to stroke her head and then stopped and said "Poo Honey, you stink of garlic, what have you been eating?"
Well, Dear Readers, you know what she had been eating, don't you? She had eaten the whole thing, paper, string, even the little metal tab that Maria used to attach to her wonderful Chorizo Salame!
The second Salame was made last night!
The night before, she and I were lolling about in bed, we had had an early supper and were reading, or rather, she was reading and I was sitting on her head having a good scratch and dry-cleaning my wings.
The television was on and we saw a pretty woman demonstrating how to make a delicious chocolate dish. It was Nigella Lawson, whom we have never seen on the television before.
"Sorry Nigella, we have never watched your programmes before but we will now".
Yesterday morning, she went online to get the recipe, then went to get a couple of ingredients from Lidl, she loves their own brand chocolate and had an idea to make an extra special sausage with a line of 'lard' running through it.
An easy recipe to make, it requires a really good length of time to harden, (she put them in the freezer over night and then moved them into the fridge), before you can string them up to make it look like a proper Salame.
Nigella made one huge one, my mum has made five out of each batch, the first batch was made with Amaretto liqueur and chopped nuts, the second was made with Cointreau and chopped crystallised ginger and orange peel.
She was going to give something else as gifts to local friends and work colleagues but she knows them all well enough to know they love a good
'Salame'.
Just like Honey did!
GeeGee Parrot.
December 20th, 2014.
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