Pedro's food

[Sir Fallsalot]

10 hours ago, Pedro said:

Lunch today was a nice sandwich, croatian roasted peppers sauce, mozzarella, olive oil, thinly sliced tomato, couple slices of smoked ham, and a fried egg

 

You have a way of making a bacon and egg sandwich sound posh 

[Pedro]

2 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

You have a way of making a bacon and egg sandwich sound posh 

It’s ham, like the smoked cold kind you buy from the supermarket, not proper fried bacon. I don’t know how to refer to it in english.

Thanks, though!

 

[MooN]

I cooked " gratin de raviolis" for the kids at lunch today. I decided to use up some slices of processed hamburger cheese as well as grated emmental.

it was surprisingly bad 

[Pedro]

Linguini with basil pesto, dried nuts were scarse at home so it’s got a weird mix of almonds and walnuts, with a couple of cashews. Would doubled on the garlic and tripled on the black pepper but since I’m cooking for mum I toned it down. Consistency and cremosity (?) was ideal!

[XTreme]

1 minute ago, Pedro said:

Linguini with basil pesto, dried nuts were scarse at home so it’s got a weird mix of almonds and walnuts, with a couple of cashews. Would doubled on the garlic and tripled on the black pepper but since I’m cooking for mum I toned it down. Consistency and cremosity (?) was ideal!

That looks nice!

[Sir Fallsalot]

1 minute ago, XTreme said:

That looks nice!

I think your winning him over @Pedro

 

[Pedro]

Couple of days ago, with little brother. Chorizo as entree, and cow’s rib with white rice and tomato salad, the roasted pepper was half eaten with the meat, and half of it left soaking in olive oil and garlic for deliciousness a couple days later.

 

[Pedro]

2 minutes ago, XTreme said:

That looks nice!

I murdered a plant for it 

[Clive]

I like Mushroom Tagliatelle............could eat one now....

Yours meal looks nicer though.

[Pedro]

Just now, Clive said:

I like Mushroom Tagliatelle............could eat one now....

Yours meal looks nicer though.

Somewhere in this thread there’s portobello mushroom  spaghetti, I like it too. And thank you very much!

[Clive]

3 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Somewhere in this thread there’s portobello mushroom  spaghetti, I like it too. And thank you very much!

Just looked it up.....try to get my wife to cook it.

[boboneleg]

My wife makes a superb spaghetti with green pesto, I quite like the red pesto as well.  We've run out of pine nuts as well

[Pedro]

30 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

My wife makes a superb spaghetti with green pesto, I quite like the red pesto as well.  We've run out of pine nuts as well

Walnuts work well, as do almonds, pistachio as well, each with a different twist. But surprisingly, old hard bread turned to crumbs on a blender are a great substitute for nuts, proper italian old school cooking with nothing. A couple of mint leaves in the green pesto also work well, if you have them fresh.

 

[boboneleg]

We’ve always got breadcrumbs on the go here

[Pedro]

What’s the deal with pine nuts’ prices? Do they have to get into negotiations with the squirrel mafia to buy them or something?

[Sofia]

6 minutes ago, Pedro said:

What’s the deal with pine nuts’ prices? Do they have to get into negotiations with the squirrel mafia to buy them or something?

Must be collected by humans with very small fingers

[Pedro]

13 minutes ago, Sofia said:

Must be collected by humans with very small fingers

Children usually aren’t paid much

[Sofia]

3 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Children usually aren’t paid much

Small humans as in midgets! Very hard to find, hence costly! The chinease are working on a robot

[Pedro]

So, trying to keep my mum’s mind away from my dad perishing in a second grade hospital while covid mandates short daily visitations, I took to making or buying nice dinners, this is southern Portugal in the summertime

Ham and cheese toast with local seasonal fruit, a classic 

 

Took her out to my favourite japanese restaurant, portuguese fresh fish presented by a master japanese chef! It was her first time ever in a japanese place and she loved it! The fried soft shell crabs had a part to play in howmuch dhe liked it, though, it’s almost a portuguese flavour 

 

a simple lunch, tomato and mozzarella salad with bread and peaches for dessert, summer means peaches and melons in Portugal 

 

My cooking, this is local clams a’la “bolhão pato”, basically clams sautéed in olive oil, garlic, fresh coriander and white wine, and served with the local bread

 

Neighbour’s grilled chicken joint, really 50 meters away, cooks the tastiest small chicken in the Algarve. dad was still unsure and I was going to the bottom of Santa’s bag to fetch something tasty to eat! The local roaster serves chicken with their own lemon and garlic sauce, home made fries, and home made chopped and assembled salad as well, along wisome good value white wine it was delicious and cost a tenth of the sushi place 

 

Today’s lunch, southern Portuguese bread (toasted) with extra virgin low accidic olive oil, ground tomato and garlic paste, and Scottish smoked salmon slices, on a mounted toast with oregano, with a seasonal watermelon out  of the refrigerator and cut into cold cubes as dessert

 

[Sofia]

5 minutes ago, Pedro said:

So, trying to keep my mum’s mind away from my dad perishing in a second grade hospital while covid mandates short daily visitations, I took to making or buying nice dinners, this is southern Portugal in the summertime

Ham and cheese toast with local seasonal fruit, a classic 

 

Took her out to my favourite japanese restaurant, portuguese fresh fish presented by a master japanese chef! It was her first time ever in a japanese place and she loved it! The fried soft shell crabs had a part to play in howmuch dhe liked it, though, it’s almost a portuguese flavour 

 

a simple lunch, tomato and mozzarella salad with bread and peaches for dessert, summer means peaches and melons in Portugal 

 

My cooking, this is local clams a’la “bolhão pato”, basically clams sautéed in olive oil, garlic, fresh coriander and white wine, and served with the local bread

 

Neighbour’s grilled chicken joint, really 50 meters away, cooks the tastiest small chicken in the Algarve. dad was still unsure and I was going to the bottom of Santa’s bag to fetch something tasty to eat! The local roaster serves chicken with their own lemon and garlic sauce, home made fries, and home made chopped and assembled salad as well, along wisome good value white wine it was delicious and cost a tenth of the sushi place 

 

Today’s lunch, southern Portuguese bread (toasted) with extra virgin low accidic olive oil, ground tomato and garlic paste, and Scottish smoked salmon slices, on a mounted toast with oregano, with a seasonal watermelon out  of the refrigerator and cut into cold cubes as dessert

 

All amazing and delicious and trully caring. Very sweet indeed! 

[Catteeclan]

Should have took the photo before I started eating but there it is, Steak and ale pie with mash, veg n gravy.

[boboneleg]

Pedro, do you have Buffalo in Portugal for home produced Mozzerella or is it imported ?

[Pedro]

4 hours ago, boboneleg said:

Pedro, do you have Buffalo in Portugal for home produced Mozzerella or is it imported ?

No, it’s imported. It’s supermarket stuff

[Pedro]

Lunch today, summer style:

 

And dinner, went to the market in the morning and got a nice 2kg Golden Bream, grilled it on coals and had a nice chopped tomato and fresh coriander cold salad as side dish. The fish only takes rough salt as seasoning and a little bit of olive oil after, cannot get more southern portuguese than this. Simple and delicious.

 

[boboneleg]

My wife made her Prawn pasta on friday, it's one of my favourites.  She makes it with three dried chillies in there to give it a bit of bite.