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Beer & Wine, Event/Activities, Home, Seasonal

Ballotine de Peru on Christmas Eve

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Ballotine de Peru (Turkey in bread) 46€ from our favorite bakery picked up @ 12:25 p.m.

Looks delicious !!! I think this easily feeds 4 people.

Christmas Eve lunch: Turkey Ballotine with potato, chestnut, cabbage, burrata salad with bell peppers, red wine @ 1:00 p.m.

I am glad that I didn’t cook turkey myself. It’s juicy and stuffing with chestnut & chouriço is so tasty.

One of my favorite wines from Alentejo

Dessert: Forest Fruit Cake @ 2:00 p.m.

Snack: Gorgonzola & red wine @ 6:30 p.m.

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Breakfast: Chocolate cake, bolo rei, apple, coffee @ 7:30 a.m., Second breakfast: Curry noodle @ 9:45 a.m.
Cheese, Grocery/Bakery, Home, Seasonal, Sweet & Coffee

Another Pick-up @ Italian Grocery

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Breakfast: Bolo Rei, bolo de chocolate, coffee @ 8:30 a.m. Second breakfast: Soup, apple @ 10:40 a.m.

20 minutes walk to pick up an order at a little Italian place

They have so many good stuff

5 kinds of cake bars, two kinds of cheese, guanciale, total 25€

Lunch: Pork cheek curry rice, burrata salad @ 1:15 p.m.

Dessert: Carrot, salted caramel, pistachio @ 2:40 p.m.
Home, Restaurant/Take Away/Delivery, Seasonal

1.25 KG T-Bone Steak @ Ofício

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Our holiday season tradition, a nice lunch instead of dinner

Steak lunch @ Ofício Restaurante. The steak was perfectly cooked and so tender. First we thought it would be too big but it was gone so quickly with no heartburn or anything. I loved tacos and dessert too.

Pork Leg Tacos 8.50€

1.25KG T-Bone Steak medium rare with roasted vegetables 88.75€

White Chocolate Raja & Forest Fruits 6.50€

Bolo Rei (19.95€) from Confeitaria Nacional. I wished I were able to get it in the prettier can, but it tastes delicious anyway.

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Breakfasts: Sonho (Portuguese doughnut with cinnamon), Fuji apple, coffee @ 7:45 a.m.
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.
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).