…I can almost taste the delicious goodies at our weeks-long Christmas gatherings where we sat around the table for 4 hours or more, with no less than 20 people that spanned across 4 different generations, surrounded by all types of dishes: seafood or fish soup (sopa de marisco o sopa de pescado), king prawns boiled (langostinos cocidos), embutidos, Turkey with stuffing (pavo con relleno), sea bream (besugo), lubina, all types of homemade desserts, etc…
…Or those Sunday lunches at my grandma's house (la Abuela Piki and her legendary cooking skills), where she’d always ask you beforehand about what you wanted to eat. It was almost a rule: after 2 huge servings of the first and the main course, she’d always joke that if you were still hungry, you could open a been stew (fabada) before having the dessert (rice with mil (arroz con leche)...
…Our large summer tables, where again two or three families plus my grandparents were eating together outside. For two weeks, every day, we had lunch and dinner in Arenas de San Pedro, near the mountains in Gredos (Avila). My grandma was taking turns with my mum and my aunties to cook different meals, all of them amazing in flavor, amounts, and looks. Oh, and those Sunday paellas that took my uncles an entire Sunday to prepare.
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