El Amor no Tiene Receta, Capítulo 36, Viernes, 19 de abril, 2024 - "Love, discord and violence"

Editted now

I apologise for the delay.

Kenzo

Esteban and Kenzo are talking about the latter's feelings for Nandy. Kenzo admits they kissed, but this whole thing is weird to him, he has never had feelings for a trans woman before. He's afraid of what his kids will say, what Felipa will say (honestly, if you care about your ex's opinion on your current love life you need to rethink boundaries). Esteban pretty much tells him to accept Nandy as a woman and if he loves her, go for it.

Teen Drama

Gala tells Bosco to take it calmly: their dad and Paz are dating. Bosco takes it as you'd expect; freaks out completely, starts shouting that Paz is just interested in their money etc, grabs his sword and goes to practice. I sincerely hope Paz isn't around, because with the temper he has he's going to practice on Paz's head.

Jer apologises to Esteban for what he did. Then, he apologises to Gala when they're alone. Salo enters and Gala is barely able to keep them for hitting each other again. She's had enough of both of them! She leaves, with Jer and Salo bickering at each other as usual.

Gala goes to the bathroom, remembering her drama with both boys. She then gets a whipped cream can she had in the BATHROOM and starts eating, the bulimia thing again.

Esteban tells Gala he knows why she's not feeling well. Gala has a total deer in the headlights look and then he says he knows she broke up with Salo. If she loves him, then she should fight for him. Gala says he likes someone else.

Ginebra and Mauro

Gin has an open verbal fight with Paz about Esteban. Paz shows her the ring he gave her and tells her to say the truth, is she interested in Esteban? Yes, she is! Gin then insults Paz is all ways you can imagine about her social class (at some point she tells her to serve her some juice, like don't you have manos,you despicable woman?) and even says Esteban is vulnerable and would have fallen for any woman who worked for him; she's nothing special. Paz replies that she (Gin) works for him but Esteban isn't interested at all (smooth burn!), plus he has a novia now. Gin finishes their fight by saying that she'll find who killed her husband and took her daughter; and when she finds that person or persons, she'll make them see hell.

Later, she hugs Bosco and is generally sweet to him. Esteban enters and Bosco leaves. The perra pretends she's very happy about him and Paz and wishes them the best from the bottom of her heart. Not even Gala's whipped cream is sweeter than this. Monito enters to grab something, Gin pretends to be sweet to him too and Monito finds an excuse to leave. When he does, Gin tells Esteban Paz is hiding something about this kid: first, the burn he actually doesn't have, then, the whole other story she told the mother group. Esteban says that's Paz's business and she'll have her reasons.

Another scene with Gin: during a talk with Elvira, El's daughter is mentioned. El shows her (in a picture) the orphanage, almost completely burnt. Gin silently remembers her younger self telling young Mauro to burn this place up together. Young Mauro is alarmed and says there are still people there, but young Gin claims it's the people that did all this harm to them. They pour the gasoline and young Gin lights a match. The young, invisible to El, Gin looks at today's Gin as the memory fades away. El, hopeful, says Gin must have remembered something; she replies she remembered that mother of hers who abandoned her in a similar place. El admits she knows who her daughter is but she doesn't know what to do. Gin "advices" her to talk to her, it'll be worse if she doesn't.

Mauro is listening to a convo between Mir and Nandy through the bug in the necklace. Mir tells Nandy she didn't get any info, but now she's confused, she knows Mauro is a bad man but she keeps thinking he has something good when she's with him. Nandy tells her about the kiss with Kenzo. Gin enters and asks Mauro if he heard something useful; he lies that no, they're in the market. Back to Mir and Nandy, there are hugs all around with Samlunamaria.

Paz (+ Esteban)

Paz tells Mir about the ring and they're both very excited.

Paz shows the ring to her mom too. Mir tells Paz (in front of Doña Lupe and Pepa) about concluding that Señora Ginebra is a good person, Mauro is the bad one. She should be a detective (sarcasm). To give her credit, though, she did say she finds this odd. Lupe agrees that no mother can want something bad for their child. Paz is still unconvinced, what about the things Samlunamaria said about the beatings? Lupe says she might be confused, she has lost her memory after all. Paz is thankfully still unconvinced.

The next day, Paz is cooking when Esteban enters. Cute dialogue that is a pain in the butt when you have to recap entirely from memory and then they cook together.

Esteban has a little surprise for her; he shows her a room with a big table full of delicious looking food. They eat and then Esteban shows her a formal piece of parchment, the recipe for love. Paz starts reading; when she's finished, Esteban burns the papers saying that - you guessed it - El Amor no Tiene Receta. 

Aaaaand we get a sex scene, and a looooong one. Come on, why, why on a Friday? I only had 20% chance of recapping it! I admit I FF--> but I caught Paz saying she hasn't taken her clothes off in front of a man in a long time.

Rubio

Rubio, who is OUT OF JAIL, is watching Lupe argue with some woman, Gema and another boy. When she starts walking, he attacks her, getting a knife out and telling her not to scream because he'll make her swallow her own blood or something like than. He mentions her daughters, especially Mireya. Lupe tells him not to mention her daughters and Rubio grabs her even more violently and closer to the knife.

And on that calm note, we have the Fin del Capítulo...