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The vegetables taste so good when they are brought from the orchard. Many of
the natives that live in the city of Burgos cultivate orchards in the town and are pleased to
be able to eat healthy vegetables that they have seen grow and mature. As was
commented before, today they prepare vegetables so that they can be frozen for them to
enjoy all year long.
The form in making the food, its ingredients and the time dedicated to it, makes a
huge difference in cooking. For example, in the past a blender was not used. As Nery
said in one of her recipes, the mortar was what has always been used. I am sure that the
majority of people that live in Ciadoncha prefer the mortar over the blender. In the
mortar, garlic, parsley and pepper are crushed well. It is prepared like a paste and then a
bit of water is added. It is then mixed in with the food.
A small wooden mortar.
Photo Lucía Varona
Life in the town is so different from life in the city that here one feels invited to
return to the past, taking their time for everything. During the summer, when one can see
some families who return to spend some days in the town, one can see the pleasure that
they feel at being able to dedicate their whole morning to preparing good casseroles. It is
not the same in the city, where one has to run around to go to work, drop off the children
at school, etc... The most valuable thing about all the town food is that it is very healthy.
Here, everything is organic and no chemicals are ever used to cultivate or raise animals.
A nice project would be to write a cooking book, with the grandmother’s recipes
of details of how these dishes are prepared. Little by little they are remaining only in the
memories of those of us who were lucky enough to taste them.
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