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Do you know that a coconut has eyes? It has a face. To open it without tools like a drill or a saw you need to get to know it better :)

I'll give you some hints. To open a coconut you will have to look at it more carefully and you will see two similar dots - these are eyes and  the other one  is a bit odd shaped - mouth. Take a knife, open it's mouth and get the water. Now it's gonna bit a bit harder. If you split the eyes and follow it straight up the back, you will see a hard ridge line. Stop right in the centre and start hitting. In my case I had to use a lot of power ;) Maybe I didn't get in with my coconut ;) When I improve my technique I'll let you know.

Salmon sprinkled with orange juice instead of lemon one garnished with parsley.

I like sour fruits a lot. I've been trying to plant some, but for now I managed to collect 3 blackcurrants last year ;)

Yesterday Chris surprised me making a delicious bowl full of blackberries and blueberries with home-made yogurt. I added fresh mint to my portion to emphasise the taste. Vitamins in the best form :)

Do you know that for Spaniards fresh squeezed orange juice is not sweet enough, so they normally sweeten it with sugar.

What is your favourite fruit?

I have not posted anything for a while, but everybody needs holidays, even me. First we went to Sierra Nevada to breathe fresh air and at the end we went down to a cute tiny town - Lanjaron. We started with regional cheese platter and olives.

A lovely main course - morcilla - that is a bit like black pudding, but in my opinion tastes much better, because of secret ingredients they add. It doesn't look spectacular, but it tastes so.

I wanted to try another local dish, so I ordered callos - it's a very specific stew ( more information in Wikipedia).

I promised yesterday to show a beetroot cake, because for some people it sounds weird and they can't imagine how can I add any vegetables to the chocolate cake.

The cake is spongy and contains a lot of cocoa and chocolate icing with a bit of alcohol.

Would you like to try it? Or beetroot is a vegetable and this idea is not only intriguing but weird.

We had a lot of fun in the kitchen while making different types of stuffing, like cabbage and onion - traditional one, lentils with vegetables and chickpeas. Very often we use lentils, chickpea or beans instead of meat, because they don't have strong flavour, like chicken, so adding your favourite spices will make them very tasty.

We made not only small-sized dumplings, but also much larger resembling strudel.