way down south
ok so y'all know by now how completely smitten i am with the people and colours and coastline and (most importantly) food of portugal. hot-damn they know how to do it in the south. we feasted on new and exciting things each day of our trip and came back with full bellies and wide grins. unfortunately i was too engrossed most of the time to get out the camera, but here is a shortlist of favourites anyways. you'll just have to use your imagination. in temporal order:
1. breakfast of peaches, fresh cheese and pumpkin (yes pumpkin) jam. ooh-wee.
2. snails and cerveja. not exactly my thing, but an experience in itself.
3. pork braised with honey and coriander. actually this was monkey's order but i snuck a few bites and they were heavenly. i was sure i'd had enough of pork already after two years in 'schland.
4. my order was grilled octopus which was similarly awesome. so tender. perfectly charred. i'm going to try my darnedest to reproduce it someday. the restaurant was a doorbell affair, buried in the hills of principe real in lisbon.
5. pasteis de belém (see picture). they are fresh and hot. there is nothing more i can say.
6. a MOUNTAIN! of shellfish (big fat crabs, lobster, prawns and mussels) overlooking lisbon's harbour on the eve of our departure. i know this isn't very exciting for the australians but holy shit do i miss the sea sometimes.
7. frango piri piri. flattened grilled chicken with piri piri chilli sauce. oh yeah. nando is the bastard cousin of this sucker.
8. vinho verde. so cold. so good.
9. queijo de figo, se faz favor. dried figs and cinnamon and star anise pulverised into a yummy ball of happy-abi.
can i go back now?
ok so y'all know by now how completely smitten i am with the people and colours and coastline and (most importantly) food of portugal. hot-damn they know how to do it in the south. we feasted on new and exciting things each day of our trip and came back with full bellies and wide grins. unfortunately i was too engrossed most of the time to get out the camera, but here is a shortlist of favourites anyways. you'll just have to use your imagination. in temporal order:
1. breakfast of peaches, fresh cheese and pumpkin (yes pumpkin) jam. ooh-wee.
2. snails and cerveja. not exactly my thing, but an experience in itself.
3. pork braised with honey and coriander. actually this was monkey's order but i snuck a few bites and they were heavenly. i was sure i'd had enough of pork already after two years in 'schland.
4. my order was grilled octopus which was similarly awesome. so tender. perfectly charred. i'm going to try my darnedest to reproduce it someday. the restaurant was a doorbell affair, buried in the hills of principe real in lisbon.
5. pasteis de belém (see picture). they are fresh and hot. there is nothing more i can say.
6. a MOUNTAIN! of shellfish (big fat crabs, lobster, prawns and mussels) overlooking lisbon's harbour on the eve of our departure. i know this isn't very exciting for the australians but holy shit do i miss the sea sometimes.
7. frango piri piri. flattened grilled chicken with piri piri chilli sauce. oh yeah. nando is the bastard cousin of this sucker.
8. vinho verde. so cold. so good.
9. queijo de figo, se faz favor. dried figs and cinnamon and star anise pulverised into a yummy ball of happy-abi.
can i go back now?
2 Comments:
hey, abi, about pasteis de belém...
when i was helping sheila babysit her nephews the other day, we got chicken from a portugese place and they were in the glass case and i totally didn't know what they were and neither did sheila and usually i ask but it was crazy busy and the teenaged boys working there were really intimidating and this is a crazy run-on sentence but it d-o-e-s have a point and namely:
what are those things? my portugese is a little rusty.
belém is a hood in lisboa. the peeps used to set sail from there back in the day. pasteis is the plural of pastel meaning pastry. kinda non-descriptive huh? yeah. um i guess in the new world we call 'em portuguese custard tarts. look here for real information. and here's how bill does it.
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