Month: December 2020

Beer & Wine, Cheese, Grocery/Bakery, Home, Seasonal

Shopping Portuguese Grocery for Christmas

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Breakfast: Chocolate & berry roll, orange, coffee @ 7:30 a.m.

Presunto, cheese, olive oil, bacalhau pate, green tea from a local grocery store that deals products only made in Portugal

A vinho verde (green wine) that I will try for the first time

Sonhos (Portuguese doughnut with cinnamon) from A Padaria Portuguesa

Milk soup @ 11:45 a.m.

Late lunch: Salad, leftover pasta & chicken, white wine @ 2:30 p.m.
Home, Restaurant/Take Away/Delivery

Our Favorite Chicken

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Breakfast: Grilled cheese, cabbage soup, coffee @ 8:45 a.m.

A whole char-grilled chicken with rice & fries (10€), Picanha (6.50€), Small salad (2€) @ 12:10 p.m.

I had two pieces of Picanha & 2 pieces of chicken. This is our favorite chicken we take out at least once a month.

Truffles as dessert and another glass of wine with chips
Grocery/Bakery, Home

A Traditional Market in Lisbon

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This morning I went to a traditional market, Mercado de Arroios in Lisbon to buy pork cheek (bochechas) and bread.

Our favorite bread, Trigo (3€) from Padaria Terra Pão. It’s just out of oven and rock hard outside but fluffy and a bit chewy inside. The best part is you can taste and smell wheat (trigo). We never can go back to a-mass-produced-bread…

Second breakfast: Cabbage soup, Trigo bread & Açores butter @ 11:00 a.m.

Snack: Salmon & mushroom pasta, chips, red wine @ 12:45 p.m.

Spontaneously bought skewered beef with bacon, chouriço and bell pepper (7€), which is a great deal. The funny part was Q & A about this product between the butcher and me that made me realized a huge cultural difference between Portugal and US.

I: “How long does it stay good?”
B: “Oh, it stays good for a long time.”
I: “Like two or three…(I was gonna say ‘weeks’)”
B: “Sure, it will be good for two or three days!”
I: “(oh wow, a few days means a long time for them…) How about a week?”
B: “Mmmm, more or less…(It seems he doesn’t recommend)”

In the end, we had it on the same day of purchase 😛

Late lunch: Beef kebab, salmon & mushroom pasta, red wine @ 3:10 p.m. It was so good! I think it would be better if I cook less time (5 min in oven or just grilled on pan).

Home

Tori no Karaage, Japanese Fried Chicken

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One thing I miss about a life in California is an easy access to Asian groceries and restaurants. Because Portuguese food is so delicious with umami and comfortable feeling, it is not important for me to enjoy Asian food so often. However, I crave for it, especially Japanese food so bad once in a while.

In Lisbon, Japanese grocery is more expensive and not in the same quality that I could get in California, so I have only soy sauce and miso in the fridge.

Today, I made Tori no Karaage, Japnese fried chicken with all Portuguese ingredients besides soy sauce. I used white wine instead sake (rice wine) to marinate chicken. One of best outcome ever!

Lunch: Japanese fried chicken, rice, green salad, tomato, miso soup @ 1:10 p.m.

I had the leftover, chips and rose wine @ 2:00 p.m.

Last piece @ 2:30 p.m.

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Breakfast: Chocolate & berry roll, rye bread & butter, chouriço omelette @ 8:40 a.m.

Home

Spaghetti Meatball in Tomato Sauce

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Breakfast: Apple, bolo de chocolate, coffee @ 9:00 a.m.

I got some bread delivered and we had a roll of berries & chocolate around 10:00 a.m. (no photo).

Lunch: Salad, meatball spaghetti,, rose wine @ 12: 40 p.m.

Most shops and restaurants are closed after 1:00 p.m. during weekends, but we went out to walk a bit around Penha de França.

We had an instant ramen split around 5:00 p.m.