Lenny's Heading South, not a Clue Where.

[Barriesimpson]

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Your wife's choices were better than yours. Is that a 'codillo de cerdo' I see there?

 

[CAB96]

£€37.50

 

[Lenny HB]

Your wife's choices were better than yours. Is that a 'codillo de cerdo' I see there?

She had meatballs in sherry sauce, mine was loin in sherry sauce

 

[treblid]

Nope, Iberian pork is free range and eats naturally in the 'dehesas' of the Spanish countryside. They mostly eat acorns which gives the meat the exclusive taste that it has. If you have never tried it you haven't lived.

Certainly sounds a lot better than normal Spanish pork.

 

[daveclare]

Therin lies the problem with people who don't know about Iberian pork

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[Jo662]

€32.70

 

[Abacist]

The way he has been spending I'm going for 66 Euros!

 

[Figaro]

Therin lies the problem with people who don't know about Iberian pork

What do we need to know please, I thought pork was pork ?

 

[Barriesimpson]

She had meatballs in sherry sauce, mine was loin in sherry sauce

Maybe I replied to the wrong post. Hers has a bone and looks like pork knuckle, yours has several bones and looks like ribs.

 

[DandG5515]

33 euros

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[Barriesimpson]

Certainly sounds a lot better than normal Spanish pork.

It really is and you need to try it. Please believe me.

 

[Lenny HB]

Maybe I replied to the wrong post. Hers has a bone and looks like pork knuckle, yours has several bones and looks like ribs.

That was a few days ago it was that and both very nice.

 

[Wanders from Glos]

KFC is my guilty treat every now and then.

€38.50

 

[Joethejoiner]

Did you get any sh*t for your rhubarb Lenny?

Custard not better ?

 

[JonP]

Shut up boy.

Unfortunately, both the decent free places have been closed to Motorhomes.
Getting value out of the adaptor
I made.

Living the Carthago dream……..

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[Minxy]

Custard not better ?

If you can get horses that produce custard I bet it's the chocolate coloured version!

 

[daveclare]

We got a data sim from Vodafone, last winter in Spain. Al n val got us a good deal, with the manager upping the data limit. Didn't have any problems with the speed at all.

 

[bellabee]

Nope, Iberian pork is free range and eats naturally in the 'dehesas' of the Spanish countryside. They mostly eat acorns which gives the meat the exclusive taste that it has. If you have never tried it you haven't lived.

I'm relieved you posted that. I've always understood this to be the case, and based on this, it's the only pork we will eat.

 

[Helen Ariel]

I'm relieved you posted that. I've always understood this to be the case, and based on this, it's the only pork we will eat.

Only if you get the high end free range stuff. There are many different grades of pork in Spain with different coloured packs to indicate the type. Anything served in a bog standard restaurant or as free or cheap tapas will not be free range. Iberico is just the breed and the vast majority will be from intensive indoor facilities sadly. We drove through a part of central Spain where we saw masses of these windowless units and it did make me think about all the free tapas we'd just consumed down in Granada.

If buying ham these are the grades to look for:

Feeding tipe of iberian pigs​

If we follow the classification according to the kind of feed, we will obtain 3 categories:

• Bellota: This type of Spanish ham comes from pigs which have been fed with acorns and pasture until they reach 50 kilos weight. This is the highest quality ham. Depending on the percentage of Iberian breed, the color of its label is black (for those 100%) or red (for those 50%).

• Cebo de Campo: This type of Spanish ham comes from pigs which has been feed with both pasture and feeding stuffs. Those are raised in big places so that the pork is able to move and thus obtaining better quality hams. The color of its label is dark green, regardless of the purity breed's pig.

• Cebo: This type of Spanish hams comes from pigs that have exclusively been fed with feed stuffs. The colour of its label is white, despite the purity of the Iberian breed as it happens with "Cebo de Campo" hams.

 

[MichaelT]

Only if you get the high end free range stuff. There are many different grades of pork in Spain with different coloured packs to indicate the type. Anything served in a bog standard restaurant or as free or cheap tapas will not be free range. Iberico is just the breed and the vast majority will be from intensive indoor facilities sadly.

What are the different colours please.

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[Helen Ariel]

What are the different colours please.

Edited to add the grades of ham. If buying fresh pork look for Campo.

 

[Lenny HB]

Martin closest jumar .

 

[bellabee]

Thank you for that information Helen Ariel .
It really makes me sad when I see all those intensive pig farms.

 

[Wanders from Glos]

Martin closest jumar .

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Wow that was cheap.

 

[Lenny HB]

Wow that was cheap.

And the bottle of wine was good.

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[Lenny HB]

Well that awful weather you lot have been having has caught up with us.
Howling gale force winds, light rain & freezing 22°.
Dry tomorrow then wet for a couple of days then hopefully back to normal.

 

[Manxcat]

Enjoying the lovely weather in Yeovil

 

[Spriddler]

Thank you for that information Helen Ariel .
It really makes me sad when I see all those intensive pig farms.

Driving near Salisbury I passed a field full of sows and cute piglets. There was a huge Pig Marketing Board banner along the hedgerow :

 

[Al n Val]

I hope this is as good as recommended

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Well I can safely say that it’s a lovely creamy texture but in our opinion a bit tasteless, the very centre where the blue is, is ok but the rest is just ok.

Would we buy it again, possibly but i’m pretty sure we’ve had a lot more tastier cheeses.

Unlike the other block the missus bought in Germany which is a completely tasteless rubbery load of crap. I’d post a photo but it went in the bin lol.

 

[bellabee]

Al n Val I agree with you. I'm not really impressed. I've bought it a few times because it looks so attractive but I always forget, between trips abroad, that I don't really like it.

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