For a few years now, ramen (Japanese noodle soup) has taken over Barcelona (Catalonia's capital city). It's a very good soup, I have liked it ever since I first tried it, precisely because it reminded me of our escudella (Catalan noodle soup that can go with different kinds of meat, vegetables, and chickpeas).
Now, the chef Jordi Vilà has created the first escudella to take away, a "street escudella". The chef says he will still cook it the traditional way that our mothers and grandmothers have always done, but with a modern take-away format, served in a biodegradable pot. It's sold in his shop Va de Cuina (carrer Comte Borrell, 54, Barcelona).
The broth brews for more than 15 hours, with chicken, pork, lard (all meat used is ecological), cabbage, chickpeas, turnip, parsnip, carrot, potato, onion, and —of course!— pilota (a delicious kind of meatball made of mixed minced meat and parsley). An individual ration (400 ml) costs 7.73€, and a big pot of 700 ml costs 12.80€, not bad at all for Barcelona prices.
Take away is still very new in our country outside of pizza and roasted chicken, I don't know how it will go with soup, but I hope it works because I am a huge fan of escudella and it will be very comfortable to be able to buy it already cooked every so often 😁
Because the Church still knows that Christmas Day is the start of Christmas (not the end), every nook and cranny of the Church was still joyfully stuffed with all of her Christmas best.
Looking at the nativity scene, the wisemen had finally made it to see the Holy Family. The perfect visual for last Sunday’s Gospel. And the last thing – at least for Christmas.
Later that afternoon, it would all be carefully packed up for another year. By Monday, there would be no trace of the glorious excess. And Christmas would finally yield Epiphany.
Not because Christmas is done. But because we’ve packed up Christmas – to take home with us.
That’s the point of Epiphany. Not to put Christmas away, but to take Christmas away – with us.
To take all of the Christmas stuff – not just the decorations, but all that God has given to us – with us.
So that on Monday, the glorious excess is not in a box. It’s in us, in our hearts.
02:00 - She's taking her coaching licence and get to coach the Chelsea U13 girls
02:45 - "Who's your best friend" "My partner, Pernille"
03:30 - Also the question about scoring goals as a defender, her answer was just "YES, even in training today I stressed and panicked so I missed it. But there are defenders they're really good at scoring, I'm just not one of them"
04:50 - "do you like takeaway" "yeah, somtimes I don't want to cook"
05:06 - Magda's face wjen she realise that the girl had never been on McDonnalds ⬇️
Pollastre a l'ast or pollastre rostit (roasted chicken) 🍗 usually eaten with potatoes or chips bought in the same store.
Many families get a roasted chicken for the Sunday lunch or for some celebration. Rostisseries, with their rows of chickens turning on a metal stick, have been working for some generations, which makes them the first "take away" restaurants here (take away, besides roasted chicken and pizzas, only started to be widespread with the 2020 pandemic).
Rostisseries are particularly typical in the Iberian peninsula, France and Greece. In the Iberian peninsula, the rostisseries use the chickens that aren't sold to make croquettes, which you can also buy there.
Photos by Shutterstock and Ana Casanova on La Vanguardia.
It has been said that “Christianity is Christ!” This statement means that Christ is the center and heart of the historic Christian faith. The gospel message is all about the person, nature, and work of Jesus Christ… take the person of Christ away from Christianity and nothing distinctive remains.
Samples, Kenneth Richard. ‘Without a Doubt: Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions. p. 129