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Papas autodate, chinegua…
Cotufas y queques
Foniles y naifes
Chonis y cambulloneros
Perder la guagua
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Naife canario Teknad / CC BY-SA |
Papas autodate, chinegua…
Cotufas y queques
Foniles y naifes
Chonis y cambulloneros
Perder la guagua
Arroz de otoñal (Autumnal rice) |
After the delicacies of spring and the fruit and vegetable explosion of summer, autumn can seem like a sad season, in which the rain arrives and the good tomatoes disappear. However, the season heralds the return of a some fantastic products, ideal for the dishes you crave when it starts to get chilly. (Chilly, of course being a relative term in Tenerife!)
Ingredients:
100 gr chestnut mushroomsMethod:
Put a little extra virgin olive oil in a pan and add some peeled and sliced garlic cloves, the chopped chorizo, roasted peppers and the cleaned and chopped mushrooms. Sauté. In a mortar, crush a little salt, a clove of garlic, a sprig of parsley, and a few threads of saffron.
When the mushrooms are softened, add two cups of rice, stir and add the four cups of stock. Add the mash from the mortar, stir and cook for twenty minutes. Turn off the heat, cover with a kitchen towel and let it rest for five minutes. Serve hot accompanied with a good wine.
El Mercado Municipal de La Laguna con la cocina de otoño: Arroz de otoñal
Carnival Queen at the Carnival Main Parade in Santa Cruz in 2020 |
Mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José Manuel Bermúdez, has announced that the City Council has had to suspend the 2021 edition of the Carnival to protect citizens against the coronavirus pandemic. The "difficult decision" not to celebrate the carnival festivities in the street next year, is because there are no adequate sanitary circumstances for it. “Right now we are experiencing two emergencies. One is the health crisis and the other is the socioeconomic crisis, which is a consequence of the first one ”, he said this Thursday during a press conference to inform about the news regarding the 2021 Carnival.
The mayor especially emphasized that "there are no sanitary circumstances [that would allow us] to celebrate the carnival as we have always celebrated, in the street and in a free and disorderly way, which is how we like to celebrate it." “Therefore - he continued - Santa Cruz de Tenerife will not celebrate the next edition of Carnival in the way we have been used to celebrating it for 60 years. We cannot celebrate it in the same way as always with thousands of people from here and abroad”. He recalled that the carnival of the Tenerife capital has taken place in it's current form since 1961, so it's "not an easy" decision.
Here, the mayor pointed out that it is a decision motivated by the persistence of the health crisis, since a second wave of the coronavirus is being experienced "that unfortunately we still cannot control"; and by the need to preserve "above all" the protection of citizens. Bermúdez stressed that the Tenerife Carnival has thus been added to other great Spanish festivals such as the Fallas, the Sanfermines or the April Fair, also suspended at the time.
The City Council is working with the Carnival groups on some activities that can maintain the spirit of the festivities during the weeks in which it should have been celebrated, activities that “would allow [us] to keep the flame alive of the party and remind us that we will always have the best carnival in the world ”.
Real Casino de Tenerife in the Plaza de la Candelaria, Santa Cruz. Koppchen / CC BY |
Spanish flag |
On 12 October each year the Fiesta Nacional de España (Spanish National Day), also known as Dia de la Hispanidad (Hispanic Day) is celebrated across Spain and the Canary Islands. Since 2000, October 12 has also been Spain's Armed Forces Day, celebrated each year with a military parade in Madrid. It is a national public holiday. The king of Spain supervises the raising of the Spanish national flag in the center of Madrid on Hispanic Day. He and the prime minister lead a military parade after that. Similar celebrations usually take place in Tenerife, though this year it's unlikely there will be any public parades.
Tapas Route in Santiago del Teide |
Taste San Miguel De Abona |
There are the following Municipal Public Holidays in Tenerife this October: