Pedro

Probably Norway, Portugal has a long history of sailing up north and catching codfish, then preserving it in salt. It's our most typical food, salted codfish cooked in 1000 different ways.

Probably their last name

Today's lunch, roe salad and codfish cakes. They are made from codfish and potatoes, not really cakes but that's how it's translated. If you ever come by Portugal and see these around a cafe just point and ask for them. Typical, inexpensive and very good. You can give the roe a pass though, can't see most brits liking that even though it's great.

Warning, couple of meals in this post are about to offend certain sensitive personalities that are more of the cheeseburger persuasion. Quick 20 minute fresh cherry tomato pasta: Canned horse mackerel sandwich Leftover grilled camembert and tomato bruschetta Hotdogs, with caramelized onion relish Mum's leftover squid from the previous day, turned into pasta the day after Proper summer meal, the amazingly sweet pineapple was the star Grilled courgette sandwich, with canned fish. It's a great sandwich, with olives and capers. Pantry sandwich, whatever's at home and opened goes in Basil and mint pesto, it was pretty much perfect Perfecting my Broccoli pasta, it's getting there and probably my favourite thing to cook right now. Although it's a paella pan, let's not offend anyone and just call it rice Vegetarian dinner: grilled aubergines, sautéed mushrooms with garlic, and salad. A simple onion omelette Lea the Terrier, very interested in this pasta sauce as soon as the anchovies started falling apart. No pictures of the end result. Octopus "à Lagareiro", baked with olive oil and potatoes. I obviously didn't cook it, a very nice restaurant did. "Lagareiro" is the man that operates the traditional olive oil press, most "Lagareiro" dishes are oven baked with garlic and potatoes, and a healthy dose of extra virgin high quality olive oil. The pesto was this place's touch and it worked. Giulia is an italian lady I know, she runs a restaurant in Germany and most dishes always feature peas thrown in one way or the other. I remembered her for some reason and peas went into the pasta, the result was pretty great. Comfort food, peas with quality chorizo from the Alentejo black pigs. I put a few different spices like turmeric, a lot of cumin, smoked paprika, some herbs, the home grown egg gifted by my neighbour finished it off perfectly and was a touch of love.

Rode a pretty sandy road today, on my was to lunch, soft sand but not deep at all with a hard compacted ground below so quite easy.

Escaroupim, a small village next to the Tejo where I tried to have lunch today:

Two big Lusitanos, imposing looking horses that were not too curious about my noisy bike and quickly made their way to a safe distance before I took their picture

I love the view this short bit of road shows over the farmlands of the Tejo, this is about 1 or 2km from home, today I stopped on my way to lunch just for you guys: Google maps shows this has a road Sandy but not deep sand with a firm path under it, through a pine forrest

Being a Portuguese, my opinion on this is obviously different to most of yours. I think she was a great lady, a worldwide symbol, and it's a shame she passed. Most countries would have been lucky to have a Queen such as her, or a King such as her father, in my opinion it's sad that she passed and sad that she's no longer your Queen.

They're made with beef, apparently

You’re right, that’s unforgivable!

Someone should tell your grandad about the TKC80 recall!

Tomorrow I might rode to my hilltop cafe for lunch, there!

Awful lunch thread!

Like politics really, a true TOTY doesn’t fight for it, it comes naturally! You can even say the true great TOTY, like a true great political leader, is often that one that doesn’t even want the position … or thinks is worthy of it …

Going parallel twin is such a pussy move by them, after such a long time with no changes and they're just going with the flow!

First 100 meters are all about launch skill and an unflippable bike, after that if it's a real race the ktm will fold your chrome mirrors forward as it flies past.

Slow is the new fast.

Rumours? I always smile when people say that, you heard it where?

Can’t believe my eyes, proper modifications by Suzuki to a Vstrom! Going tubed isn’t exactly the direction for me, though.

Fun was had, you didn't hurt yourself, good day!

Don´t go spending that whole in one place!

If done right, they’re not chewy at all, though.

That’s more of a Brazilian thing, not really Portuguese. Not sure what’s meant to be served with them but when I had it was always placed on the table before food like a normal bread, like garlic bread in the way it’s enjoyed in Italy. Now a proper Brazilian roast with coal grilled garlic butter baguettes, that’s the stuff! Edit: just remembered, they like it for breakfast as well in Brazil. I’m not a big fan as it doesn’t compete with proper bread and cheese.