IdleRich

IdleRich
OK @Leo, to make up for that I should say that afterwards we entered the picturesque town of Santarem which felt like something out of a spaghetti western - in fact it was so quiet, it felt like the scene after the good guy and the bad guy have seen each other and everyone has scarpered to the safety of their houses - anyway, picturesque and almost totally dead but we found this one woman who had opened a kinda modern feeling oyster bar which was very unusual in the town (in fact in my experience of Portugal, oysters are the one thing that are more expensive here than in London) and we sat on these beautiful wooden tables outside in a square feasting on oysters and drinking cold white wine as her cute little twin daughters sat next to us and played for hours with like weird sloppy play-doh stuff. Just a beautiful afternoon.

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And also I should say that I ate the rabbit's brain.
 
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Mr. Tea

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I sucked the brain out of a crayfish, once. (It was dead already, and cooked as well, I should add). There wasn't much of it.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Sorry I couldn't resist.
It was a lovely day though - we went to this vineyard near Santarem. These places have spectacular gates leading to a beautiful white hacienda with outbuildings and stables. If this was a film about Mexican cartels or mafia or something then the gates would have had two knackos lounging against them with guns over their shoulders, outside the house there would be a huge table set up with the sinister old patriach in his dusty suit surrounded by hangers on and as you ate his impossibly beautiful daughter would ride up clutching an Arabian pony between her taut thighs, she would smile at you flashing white teeth in her olive face but you daren't meet her glance as you heard rumours of what happened to her previous suitors...
But in actuality there just a load of flash cars cos there was some kind of wealthy wedding party, and a shop selling their wine. We bought a couple of bottles but no tasting cos of covid so it was a bit random.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Salmon burger with soy sauce, Japanese mayo, cucumber, rocket and lemon juice plus chilli flakes - kimchi on the side... Oh can't upload the file for some reason.
 

Mr. Tea

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oven chips and birds eye findus panakes? wheres your greens Tea?!!
Lunch was home-made soup with several sorts of wild mushrooms! Which may not be literally green but have, like, vitamins and stuff. I think.

But this is the dinner thread, not the lunch thread, so I didn't mention it.
 

Mr. Tea

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Had a decent sized lunch of fish and chips so dinner wasn't big or complicated. Homemade bread hot from the oven, homemade chutney (can't take credit for that, my mum made it), some cheddar so mature it had a pension plan by the age of 25, a couple of blue cheeses, some red grapes and a good dry cider. Really hit the spot.
 

luka

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I had this tin of bean sald and I put it in a pan with oil and crushed garlic and chopped onion and lettuce leaves and cherry tomatoes and cooked it then added feta at the end. I just didn't feel like eating cold food so I had to cook lettuce.
 

Leo

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this is why cooking is enjoyable: you can be creative and improvise based on what you have handy and in the mood for.
 

luka

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Yeah that's why no one has invented it before. But actually it's just a hot green leaf. A fairly standard proposition.
 
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