We are now down to the last few packets of those snacks from Tanico that Ana and Marisu bought us. These are toasted almonds.

You understand that we have lots of almond groves in this area so the nuts are a plenty.

The almond is such a useful product. First off, you can use the oil for cooking and as a beauty product. You can turn almonds in to milk or butter, make Amoretto from them, eat them raw, use them in cakes and biscuits and make paste from them to decorate cakes.

The popular way to eat them here is deep fried, most bars serve them that way as an accompaniment to a drink.

I have never seen them toasted like this though. To eat them, you break the crisp shell apart to reveal the toasted nut inside. Delicious.