Dennis Hollingsworth

Lunchtime Castellano Lessons

It was good not to have a television in our lives for so long, but to assist our language training, we hooked up an antenna and now we puzzle out the meaning of Spanish television.

Lunchtime, we watch this delightful cooking show on Telecinco, a Basque cook by the name of Karlos Argui?ano.

Happy cooks are successful cooks, and this guy likes to sing as he goes about his business. In this particular show (pic), he is preparing a Salsa Americana (for a fish dish, a fish called Rape... the kind that has this monsterous head and a delicious body), but it's no salsa we have seen before. In this recipie, he chopped up live crab and prawns (poor things, heads and all), simmered it all in a soup in flitered out the chunky parts afterwards.

A half hour and we decode all the new words... the Castellano lessons continue.

I don't think we'll be chopping up the crabs anytime soon.