Lemon marmalade, Spain eating habits and la merienda
Citrus marmalades are my favorite ones and since I already featured the recipe for orange marmalade (one of the blog’s most visited posts!), today is the turn for lemon marmalade.
If you like very sweet marmalades, I have to warn you, this one may not be the one for you. It is citrusy, therefore, more tangy, but obviously, also sweet – otherwise it wouldn’t be a marmalade, right?
And with this recipe, it’s time to address the beloved and most idiosyncratic meal in the Spanish culture: la merienda.
I could translate la merienda to something like the afternoon snack, the (more…)
I can’t help it, but every time I have toast with bitter orange marmalade, or Seville orange marmalade, as the jar may be labeled, I think of my dad.
For years, during middle school and high school, our dining room table at breakfast time would become not only the family table where everyone gathered to convene before going on our way to school or to work, but also