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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:

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Canned horse mackerel sandwich

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Leftover grilled camembert and tomato bruschetta

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Hotdogs, with caramelized onion relish

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Mum's leftover squid from the previous day, turned into pasta the day after

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Proper summer meal, the amazingly sweet pineapple was the star

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Grilled courgette sandwich, with canned fish. It's a great sandwich, with olives and capers.

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Pantry sandwich, whatever's at home and opened goes in

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Basil and mint pesto, it was pretty much perfect

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Perfecting my Broccoli pasta, it's getting there and probably my favourite thing to cook right now.

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Although it's a paella pan, let's not offend anyone and just call it rice

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Vegetarian dinner: grilled aubergines, sautéed mushrooms with garlic, and salad.

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A simple onion omelette 

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Lea the Terrier, very interested in this pasta sauce as soon as the anchovies started falling apart. No pictures of the end result.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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20 minutes ago, Marcel said:

Where is the cod fish from? 

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.

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9 hours ago, Marcel said:

I knew it.... You bunch of thiefs... Stay away from are codfish.... Just think about it now.... If there was no regulation on seal population... You wouldn't have codfish to eat and you'd be force to eat horse cocks... 

Seals have no natural predators to keep them in check.... Yes polar bears but that's in the north pole... 

You totally lost me there...

 

In fairness, and this is not a defensive move because I'm known for my lack of appreciation for salted cod ( ask @Pedro ) , the largest consumer of cod and who actually depted the stocks, are the British for fish and chips, something I love to eat!!! 

Plus, who owns the fish is a long and hard discussion, followed normally by insult-throwing  and actual fishing wars!! 

To me the seals have priority, always! 

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On 10/09/2022 at 11:16, Catteeclan said:

You know this stuff is not for me but you obviously take time preparing and presenting your food, it looks great but there's nothing you can do to octopus to make it look good.

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I think it looks great. I'd definitely put my name down for that.

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On 10/09/2022 at 11:20, yen_powell said:

My son was a chef for a few years until a major career change. He still dabbles, all a bit too burny for me, but he does send me the occasional food prep video he's made.

 

I like that, it's like a food based music videoclip

 

On 10/09/2022 at 11:16, Catteeclan said:

You know this stuff is not for me but you obviously take time preparing and presenting your food, it looks great but there's nothing you can do to octopus to make it look good.

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I purposely took that picture for you and a couple other forum members :classic_laugh:

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Was pretty great, basically you get a salted codfish piece, half grill it, tear it apart a bit and put it inside a clay pot with a lot of garlic and olive oil over the coals, closed for a while, and serve it with plain potatoes. Thinly cut raw onion slices are an option, I go for them  always.

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