Category: Beer & Wine

Beer & Wine, Home, Restaurant/Take Away/Delivery, Sweet & Coffee

Two Kinds of Brazilian Steak

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We went to one of our favorite restaurants to pick up lunch. Since it’s located on the hill, it was a good exercise for us too.

Lunch: Maminha ao alho (left), Picanha (right) with rice, fries, feijão (Brazilian beans), salad + red wine @ 1:40 p.m. He likes maminha and I like picanha better.

This is wine sold for 2.50€ at a local store. Not bad 🙂

Dessert: Bolo de chantilly + earl grey @ 3:50 p.m.

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Breakfast: Rosca & coffee @ 8:20 a.m., leftover oyakodon @ 10:00 a.m.
Beer & Wine, Home

Bacalhau à Brás & Encruzado

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Bacalhau, salted dried cod is one of the most important ingredients to Portuguese cuisine. I have made a few of popular Bacalhau dishes including Bacalhau com Natas and Pasteis de Bacalhau. Today I tried to make another famous one, Bacalhau à Brás.

Lunch @ 12:45 p.m. Basically it’s to stir fry onion, garlic, desalted & cooked bacalhau, stripped potatoes and egg all together. It came out very good. Since it’s so easy that I would cook again soon.

I forgot to add olives at last. Shoot!

We had cold soba as well.

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Breakfast: Lanche Misto, Rosca com creme de ovo, apple, coffee @ 8:00 a.m.

Lanche: Smoked salmon & cream cheese on bread, Spanish cheese, white wine @ 10:40 a.m.

Mariposa, Dão DOC Portugal, Encruzado 2017, It’s my first time to taste Encruzado. I love its floral aroma and refreshing lemony acidity. I am going to try other Encruzado too.
Beer & Wine, Home, Sweet & Coffee

Leftover Chicken & Delicious Red Wine

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Lunch: Leftover from yesterday @ 12:20 p.m.

This red wine, Jardim de Granito from Dão region, Portugal is very delicious. Portuguese red is generally a blend of multiple kinds of grapes and very smooth, but this one is even smoother with fruity aroma and elegant finish. The price is unbelievable (8€). Love it!!!

Dessert from Docel @ 1:10 p.m.

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Breakfast: Portuguese style croissant with egg cream, Fuji apple, coffee @ 7:10 a.m. (Docel)
Beer & Wine, Home

Cooking Fresh Clams for the First Time

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Breakfast: Vegetable soup, bolo de chocolate, rolo de canela, coffee @ 8:30 a.m.

Walking around toward the market

Purchasing fresh clams & bread @ Mercado de Arroios

I was not sure if I was doing right to prepare fresh clams even though I followed an instruction online. By the way this clam is called “Amêijoas Japonesa” and much more expensive (14€/kg) than I expected.

I took a look at several recipes online and simply cooked them with white wine & garlic.

I looks good but not really. It was too salty. I probably put too much salt in the water to let them breath sands out.

I added rice and egg into the clam soup to make “risotto.”

A good Alvarinho, Vinho Verde recommended by his Portuguese teacher

Beer & Wine, Home, Restaurant/Take Away/Delivery

Chirashi Take Away Lunch

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In Portugal, the situation of covid-19 has been bad…unfortunately. More new cases than the beginning of pandemic when Portugal controlled it very well. I think that 2 or 3 waves possibly got bigger because we have less infected people from 1st wave. Anyway, the government decided to implement more restrictions starting tomorrow, so I went to get a to-go Chirashi (sushi) for lunch. It seemed that nothing has changed in city just calm and lovely as usual.

Chirashi lunch including miso soup & salad from Aron Sushi (16.50€) + Portuguese rose wine

Tuna, ebi, tai, salmon, toro, tako, aji, katsuo, tamago…so delicious.

Squid aemono was good too.

Walking around Saldanha area while waiting for the food.

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Breakfast: Orange, pão de lo, coffee @ 7:10 a.m., Cheese sandwich @ 10:50 a.m.
Beer & Wine, Home

Carbonara with Guanciale

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Breakfast: Chocolate bar, strawberries, coffee @ 8:50 a.m.

Brunch: Leftover turkey, carrot salad etc., red wine @ 11:20 a.m.

Followed by Bolo Rei

Carbonara @ 3:00 p.m. Guanciale was very flavorful. I was afraid that it would be too salty and didn’t put salt in the water to cook pasta, but that was wrong. Next time I am sure that I would make it better.

Followed by a truffle
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.
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.