Grandmother of dragons, the 87-year-old 'influencer' and MasterChef winner who is now releasing a cookbook

Guadalupe Fiñana

is 87 years old just because she and her ID say so.

Young on the inside, young on the outside, she is a

vital

: her joy, her sense of humor and her funny analyzes on the series

made her an

who not only maintains her followers, but also increases them (

-or "Sagram" as she says- and 142,000 on Tik Tok).

Guadalupe triumphs in social networks as

, also in talent contests - she is the winner of the first edition of

and soon in bookstores, since she has just published a book with her best recipes.

If from the hands of

and

came to

("they called me because I am a Grandmother of dragons and I recorded a

that came out

. So, my granddaughter encouraged me to sign up for the casting because she says I cook very rich") , of yours and those of the HarperCollins Ibérica publishing house, what now comes are

made with healthy and tasty ingredients.

After winning the

they proposed the play to him.

"I have never weighed, nor have I measured the things with which I cook. I do it

, I miss so much of this, so much of that ... By eye".

For this reason, with the help of her granddaughter Claudia and her daughter-in-law Noelia, she has prepared this recipe book.

"I cooked and told them how I did it and they wrote it down. And that's how this beautiful recipe book came out."

Guadalupe in the kitchen of her house.

What are the dishes you cook every day like?

Traditional, "very simple and for very

, because what I have done all my life has been to tighten my belt and

. With 600 euros of pension you have to do a lot of juggling", he explains .

Recipes that are easy to prepare and with tricks that this Dragon Grandmother learned from hers, her grandmother, who raised her because her mother works to get them ahead and made it so that "with the few assets she had, everything tasted delicious. She taught me how to cook. She made some

that tasted great. They only had bay leaf, a little lard, her onion, her garlic that she raised in her corral. But how delicious they were! Or it

. "

A "glorious" dish that Guadalupe collects, along with 84 others, in this manual and that she has prepared "all my life." Recipes that, of

, work. Like the meatballs with carrot sauce - "they come out delicious, everyone tells me; the lentils; the pero (or apple) cake; my

: eggplant, tuna, chorizo, cod ... I always have the freezer is full of croquettes and when someone comes, I give them a bag ".

He continues: "My little things are made with very little money, but they are all very good: cod omelettes are very popular ...", just like any proposal that comes out of its tasty

.

"Yes, with the little things that are left over. Look, the rice in the pot that is very

. Well, you dip it in egg and breadcrumbs, fry it and it's to die for delicious."

Guadalupe with its famous croquettes.

To some of those "little things", Guadalupe has added

that have occurred to her over time and others that she has known after passing through the famous cooking contest on TV. "Now that I see all these

, I would like to be younger and go to MasterChef's school to

. Of course, at my age it would be too much, although my great-grandson, who is four years old, I am going to point him to the camps because he likes it. the kitchen as much as me. "

However, this Sevillian who was born in Nerva (Huelva) and who has "her heart divided between Huelva and Seville"

of anything: she overcame three challenges in the program. "I had to prepare bull's tail. I don't do it because now I only cook for my girls (granddaughters) and they don't like it." It came out round and "I had the help of my girl

(contestant of MasterChef Junior 6), who taught me to make

,

(

) of potatoes". She also acted as captain and, finally, she replicated a recipe for red mullet that Pedro and Marcos Morán (from

Prendes, Asturias) prepared as a final test. "I am very

, but I was left dead when I saw how they remove the bones from the fish with tweezers ... I thought they were only used for waxing, my

. "

Lentils

-How do you see the modern kitchen?

-I see her very well.

But they are things for a day that you invite your family to something different.

.

-Would you dare to prepare any of those dishes?

-If they explain it to me and tell me the ingredients, unquestionably I do it, but

as there is in

ha ha ha.

-What are you going to do for Christmas Eve?

-I always put my breasts with pine nuts and pineapple.

For a diner, the breast is taken and split in half, macerated for a few hours with its good wine, its salt, its ground pepper ... All that.

They are placed on the

and sprinkled with the pineapple broth and made with a little butter on each breast.

When they are about to brown, put the pine nuts on top and a little cream.

It comes out delicious.

-And for New Years Eve?

-Always

, a baked sea bass or hake, and first some hors d'oeuvres: some prawns and little things to snack on.

Guadalupe

and hundreds of thousands of followers

. "I have a

of grandchildren in

. They are wonderful, they tell me such beautiful things ... I really enjoy it." Forofa of

, it

with the video that her granddaughter recorded for her during a hot Seville summer while she commented with innate wit on the well-known HBO series. "I was in a nightgown, the sea of ​​ugly, and he recorded me without realizing it," he recalls.

"A friend of his from Audiovisuales

and became

You can't get an idea what it was formed. Carlos Herrera called me and said: 'Grandmother of dragons', because I love dragons, you know "... And with the nickname he stayed. His funny comments and reactions to what was happening in the series, an ease in

that many already wanted and the nicknames with which he

-

(Jon Snow);

(Bran Stark);

(Tyrion Lannister), "my favorite, he is to eat it, the intelligence he has" ...- they turned her into an

.

"My girls explained to me what it was, but I don't know how many followers I have. I ask my children, how many are

? And they tell me, 'more, grandmother, more."

Well then there are many, I tell them. "And boy are they ...

But (or apple) cake.

Once the series was over, it was the turn of a national story:

"I have not seen more beautiful Spanish series. They invited me to the

and I met all the actors, how cute, how nice in person. With how important they are and how well they treated me."

Later, they arrived

- "it has been recorded to me, because it has a good message, but wow, that scares me" -;

- "although that psychopath gives me a lot of courage" - and

, which "is wonderful, but very hard, that's why I have not commented on it. Imagine yourself with the little mouth that I have ..., I was going to

"

-How do you deal with the networks?

-My grandchildren help me a lot ... and they scare me.

They tell me not to go there, not to go there.

All I do is give my

and greet my children, my "

."

-What is the recipe to reach those 87 years so well managed?

-I think it is because of how much I have worked and because

. I have my house like a whistle, I make flamenco dresses or crochet, I cook and I love to read. I like mystery and history books, but since my grandfather taught me to read in

a serialized novel that he bought, I read everything that

. At 10 I read my first book:

, she was strong, yes, but I liked everything.

Lucrecia Borgia, a character who would fit wonderfully in your beloved

or in the prequel

that you are looking forward to seeing.

"My granddaughter put the trailer for me, how crazy. This will be how the birth of

, the relatives, right?"

Guadalupe hunts the plots on the fly.

Grandmother of dragons.

Recipes for Every Day

, by Guadalupe Fiñana (Ed. HarperCollins Ibérica) is on sale for 17.95 euros.

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