Hello, hello, lovely Hive community!
Itâs been a festive time on the island recently due to the celebrations for the Virgen del Valle, so the streets are filled with music and people parading their little statues of the Virgin, all dressed up and decorated. As for me, we had to go out because we needed to do some shopping â I was planning to make a meal and a cake.
We usually go to the nearest supermarket, but this time we decided to go a bit further afield to make a few stops along the way, and I really liked the supermarket we were heading to. Specifically, we went to the river at Playa El Ăngel; to be honest, I really like this one because itâs very big and thereâs a Farmatodo right next door, ha ha ha.
I mean, sometimes I find that supermarkets are really crowded and itâs a bit tricky to get about with a trolley, so the spaciousness of this one makes it much more comfortable, plus the times Iâve been there itâs not usually very busy. I also like how nice and tidy everything is.
But one thing that isnât great is the cheese section, hahaha. They kept me, a French bloke, someone who, judging by his accent, I reckon is from the Middle East or the Near East, and two other ladies (who kept asking how many days the cheese would stay fresh đ) waiting to be served for about half an hour, even though there were about ten staff serving at the counter, so I got fed up, left my mum there and went to the cafĂ© to grab a bite to eat.
Something else that made me laugh was that when I went to order something to eat, the French bloke seemed to have got fed up too and went to ask for some bread, asking if the bread he wanted to eat was French. The staff seemed to be processing the situation, and so did I; in the end they told him no, hahaha, and he ended up buying a bag of canilla bread and went off to eat. Itâs worth noting that âpan de canillaâ is the local version of the French baguette, so I reckon thatâs what he meant.
After Iâd ordered something, my mum arrived; we ate the sweet treat Iâd ordered and finished loading everything we were going to take onto the trolley. Just as we were about to leave, I spotted a packet of churros in the frozen food section that just needed frying, and as I really love churros, I grabbed it, we paid and headed back to the cottage.
As soon as I got home, I made the churros; they were alright â not perfect in terms of flavour, but Iâm absolutely rubbish at making churros, so they werenât too bad, although Iâll have a look to see if they sell other brands.
ÂĄHola, hola, linda comunidad de Hive!
Estos dĂas en la isla han sido festivos debido a las celebraciones de la Virgen del Valle, por lo que en las calles solo se escucha mĂșsica y personas sacando a sus virgencitas toda vestidas y decoradas. En mi caso, tuvimos que salir porque necesitĂĄbamos hacer compras porque planeaba hacer una comida y una torta.
Y por lo general, vamos al supermercado mĂĄs cercano, pero esta vez decidimos ir un poco mĂĄs lejos para hacer unas paradas de camino y el supermercado al que Ăbamos me gustaba mucho. En especĂfico fuimos al rĂo de Playa El Ăngel; serĂ© sincera, este me gusta mucho porque es muy grande y al lado queda el Farmatodo, jajaja.
Es decir, a veces me pasa que los supermercados estĂĄn muy llenos y para pasar con un carrito es algo difĂcil, por lo que la amplitud de este permite estar mĂĄs cĂłmoda, ademĂĄs de que las veces que he ido no suele estar muy lleno. TambiĂ©n que me gusta lo bonito y ordenadito que estĂĄ todo.
Pero algo que sĂ no es muy bueno es el ĂĄrea de atenciĂłn de quesos, jajaja. Me tuvieron como media hora a mĂ, a un francĂ©s, a alguien que por su idioma creo que es de Medio Oriente o de Oriente cercano y a dos señoras mĂĄs (que no paraban de preguntar que cuĂĄntos dĂas de fresco tenĂa el queso đ) esperando para atendernos y eran como diez personas atendiendo en la barra, asĂ que me cansĂ©, dejĂ© a mi mamĂĄ ahĂ y me fui a la cafeterĂa a comerme algo.
Algo que me dio risa tambiĂ©n era que cuando fui a pedir algo para comer, como que el francĂ©s tambiĂ©n se cansĂł y fue a pedir pan y preguntĂł que si el pan que Ă©l querĂa comer era francĂ©s. Las que atendĂan quedaron como procesando la situaciĂłn y yo tambiĂ©n; al final le dijeron que no, jajaja, y al final comprĂł una bolsa de pan de canilla y se fue a comer. Un hecho a destacar es que el pan de canilla es la versiĂłn criolla de la baguette francesa, asĂ que creo que a eso se referĂa.
Ya despuĂ©s de yo pedirme algo, llegĂł mi mamĂĄ, comimos el dulce que pedĂ y terminamos de agarrar todo lo que Ăbamos a llevar en el carrito. Cuando ya nos disponĂamos a irnos, vi en la secciĂłn de congelados un paquete de churros que solo se tenĂan que freĂr y, como me gustan mucho los churros, lo agarrĂ©, pagamos y nos fuimos a la casita.
Apenas lleguĂ©, hice los churros; estaban bien, no eran perfectos en sabor, pero soy malĂsima haciendo churros, asĂ que no estuvo mal, aunque verĂ© si venden de otras marcas.
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