Dear Friends, sitting here on our first proper Autumn day in Barcelona – 4th November. What a warm Autumn we’ve had – crazy! Just two weeks ago we were still sunbathing and swimming in the good life masia pool!
We had a magical weekend filled with delicious food and wine, country walks, exercise classes and relaxing massages and fantastic good lifers.
Our new Autumn activity Picking Mushrooms and then cooking with them was a ball! Fabulous! This is how it went.
Josep, our mushroom guide and masia owner took us to a nearby secret mushroom area and we found a few bags full of mushrooms, mainly the type which is kantarelles, i know this type, as we eat alot of them in Sweden where I’m from. They are delicious. We also found a few of a rare special mushroom and i don’t even remember the name of it? So with the picked mushrooms on the Saturday evening we had lined up for our MASIA COOK COMPETITION!
In the two houses we had teams of 5 who had been given the same ingredients plus the mushrooms we picked to cook up as many dishes they wanted to. It was amazing! Each team produced 5 different delicious dishes which we then all shared for dinner and voted for. There was pumpkin-sweet potatoe ginger soup, risotto with the mushrooms, hard boiled eggs filled with the eggwhite, lemon juice and anjovis, chicken breast filled with chestnuts, grilled vegetables Spanish style, stir fried eggs with mushrooms etc etc – It was yummy and the good lifers won prices! Such a lovely new event. Perfect for the Autumn good life.
The good life masia was divine with all it’s Autumn colours and although it was very warm outside we had the open fires going in the evenings when it got fresher. Our 6km walk through the Catalan countryside with fields, woods was beautiful and just the right amount of exercise for our good lifers. And ofcourse our regular Cheese & Wine tasting, Argentinian barbeque, Cardio-Box class and Pilates class were all there and everyone loved it!
It’s a fab weekend – I love the good life! Everyone who comes are great!
Want to come? We’re doing the next one in May – contact me for information 659 995 657 or email: nunu@thevitaltouch.es
Autumn Love Xnunu
