We took my F-I-L, Juan, to La Salón Berlin tonight, and had a soup (sopa) that was incredible- simple, but it had so much flavor!! It was a chicken broth, (with a chunk of chicken, complete with rib bones, or thigh, or, whichever bone, for flavor), with garbanzo beans, onion, a touch of cabbage, and some sort of tiny, but spicy, chili!!! With a touch of lime juice, everything was calm, edible.
Heather, this is for you. We ended our botana with a small plate of “un pizco de cerdo, con verdolagas, en una caldo de cerdo!!! Do you remember what verdolagas are called? Purslane!! In every country, EXCEPT the US, it is a nutrient-dense plant that will feed hundreds of thousands of people for next to nothing!! In the US, and only the US, it is considered a weed!!!
I cannot tell you how delicious this meal was. It is everything you could ask for in a meal, and then some.
Thank you. To all of the staff at the Salón Berlin for main very Friday a wonderful end to a, probably, long week.