The traditional Christmas dinner here is Escudella i Carn d’Olla.

It is a kind of stew into which go chicken, pork, beef, sausage, potatoes, carrots, onions, leeks, celery, checkpeas and large pasta shells.
First you eat the stock with the pastas as a soup. Then there are courses of the meat and vegetables and chickpeas. Of course everything has been boiled up with the meat.  When I say pork by the way I mean more than just the usual parts – there are also trotters, muzzle, tail, ears.

I am 90% vegetarian by the way which makes Christmas lunch an interesting experience.

Thank god for turrons and cava!