Cider Houses in the Basque Country .. and a few less trees

Friday, 15 February 2013 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food, Basque Lifestyle
Cider drinking at the mushroom fiestas in Elgorriaga
For some reason cider has become the theme of the week … and not a drop has yet passed my lips . .. I swear! My partner, the village lawyer, always seems to get interesting cases when the Basque cider houses open (usually between January and April) although I have to admit, the  ‘wild-boar-in-the-boot-of-the-car’ case during last

Home-made Basque cheese

Thursday, 10 June 2010 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food
A guest post from Veronica of La Recette du Jour. We took the opportunity of living a few months at Iaulin Borda in Ameztia in the Navarran Pyrenees. It is next door to a sheep farm run by Sagrario and her husband, Ignacio, so we to went over one day to find out how our neighbour makes