“JUEVES”

The recipe for a turbulent, tempestuous, thoughtless Thursday goes as follows:

1) Place shrimps in a bowl

2) Cover them with lime juice

3) Put 2/3 or maybe even 4 spoons (depending on how much you like it) of  ‘Worcestershire Sauce’

4) Leave the prepared shrimps in the refrigerator for a night

…and the next day

5) Add onion and tomatoes (both of them cut in small, squared pieces) 

6) Put a bit of coriander (if you don’t find any you can also use parsley)

7) Add salt and pepper (to taste)

8) Add a bit of tomato juice (preferably something like ‘Clamato’, but it is also possible to use regular tomato juice)

9) Place a few sticks of celery

…let it rest for 30 minutes

And voilà: Yes. Perhaps the ‘aftermath’ of doing this series of actions and combining these different ‘elements’ is not a “turbulent, tempestuous, thoughtless Thursday” (YET), but you do have a great and magnificent and extraordinary, tasty ‘CEVICHE’! And not any kind of ceviche, no… but a GUATEMALAN CEVICHE, the mother of all ceviches; which makes it way better!

You can go ahead, eat it with crackers and enjoy it. If by any chance you do not enjoy it, you can instead go ahead and consider yourself a bad cook (sorry, sorry)! Blame it on the chef, but never on the ceviche! :D

But, now the real recipe for a “turbulent, tempestuous, thoughtless Thursday”:

1) Make ‘having dinner every Jueves’ a mandatory tradition in the house.

2) Have Dutch, French, German, Spanish, English, Guatemalan and many Italian characters as your guests.

(!) Whatever you do, always follow the one and only rule during the ‘gathering’ - NOT speaking English, por favor! Otherwise problems begin to arise with the Italian ‘audience’… 

Specially when talking about ‘forks’…

(…just kidding of course!)

4) Make sure that the nearest super market runs out of all types of alcoholic beverages.

5) And also make sure that each and every bottle is empty by 1:30 am on Friday.

6) If by 2:00 am you still feel like you have not yet killed enough or sufficient neurons in your brain; just go out to a disco and completely ignore the fact that you should be in school 6 hours from then.

7) Dance.

8) Arrive home by 6:30:

“Hmmm… I have class in two hours”… But we are in España so, “no pasa nada.. la gente esta muy loca!”

Hopefully you don’t experience too many of these “turbulent, tempestuous, thoughtless Thursdays”, dear readers; I don’t want to be a bad influence on you. In the long run all is nothing but ‘a waste of time wearing a very overrated, fake-flashy costume’; or at least that’s my opinion.

Have a nice weekend (avoid – “drinking and driving” + “drinking and dialing”+ “drinking an… ok I stop)

Peace out
Your writer,
Maria    

P.S: Enjoy the CEVICHE in case you decide to try and cook it!