SUPPER WITH BANANAS

 SUPPER WITH BANANAS      

Between 2000 and 2015 we celebrated special occasions in a banana plantation! 

It was called El Cordero - the Lamb - and a vast barbecue pit was the central feature. Everyone ate meat of all types & spicy sausages. There was salad and Canarian salty potatoes, salsa picante and salsa verde, and lots of rough vino tinto.

The canvas ceiling retained moisture & kept out dust and most of the flies. There were lots of banana plants, a few ferns to add privacy & atmosphere, sparrows flying around, and a feral cat or two.

Halcyon days in Tenerife.

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Days like today, with the temperature in the 30s, remind me of the fifteen years we lived in Tenerife. It was like the curate's egg - quite good in parts: remembering places such as El Cordero fill me with nostalgia, but the heat could be oppressive. In high summer we would spend a long time in Mercadona or Hiperdino, the local supermarkets, just so we could hover over the freezers to cool down before getting back into the small Hyundai oven we called a car.

Thanks to Fleur Lind for the photo - I managed not to tell you my latest gardening story! - and to Rochelle for hosting Friday Fictioneers.