Alpendre, Alfama

Dessert...mmm

The BEST seafood risotto

DJ

Alpendre - in Alfama district, Lisbon
Rua augusto rosa, 32/4
Phone: 218 862 421

Dan and i have been 2 nights in a row. first night we had arroz de marisco - seafood risotto - filled with prawns, crab, fish, clams mmm

Last night we had the mixed grill for 2 - all kinds of delicious meat - pork, steaks etc

Bill is usually around 25 euro for all you can eat and drink including dessert

Lunch at Snoopys, Porto

Across the road from Casa da Musica. Delicious meat falling apart on your fork, melt in your mouth! Grand total of about 12 euro for the meal plus a bottle of wine

Breakfast at the Pastelaria in Cordoba

yummy pies filled with chicken and roast veges...mmm. washed down with a cafe con leche

The Medieval festival, Cordoba

More winners from Taberna coloniales, Seville

Manjar blanco - chicken with bacon, cheese and almond sauce. This is, as you can see, a HUGE dish and only cost about 2.90 euros. Crazy!

My favourite - Crujiente de brerejas con salmorejo = eggplant with salmorejo - salmorejo is a delicious light tomato sauce/puree.

One of the daily specials - a stack of potato, tomato, cheese, prawns etc mmmm

Another winner from Bar Alfalfa, Seville

Yum! Cheese, pesto, tomato, rocket, drizzled with olive oil. The goods!

Chocolate y churros!

Taberna Coloniales, Seville

DELICIOUS tapas and lots of fun to sit at the bar.

Tortilla de camarones - tortilla with shrimp

Huevos de cordoniz con jamon - delicious little bites of toast with quail eggs and serrano ham

Punta de solomillo a la castellana - prime cut meat with castellana - a sort of gravy with onions, served with potatoes

MORE Magnums!!!

In Spain they have heaps of Magnums we don't get. Here is the strawberry white choc mmmm mum would love this! My favourite is Stracciatella Sandwich - it's half giant sandwich, half choc-chip magnum - genius!

Bar Alfalfa, Seville

Check out the bowl of melted cheese!!! mmmmm

La Bodega, Seville

chorizo picante y crema de queso - delicious roll with spicy chorizo and creamiest goats cheese, toasted

espinacas con garbanzos = spinach and chickpeas

fabe = white beans, bacon and sausage

Casinha do Petisco, Lagos

Stuffed squid

O'Sobreiro, Evora

• Migras a Alentejana - regional bread - a weird massive plate of breadcrumbs with pork meat
• Delicious chick peas with lemon, cod and garlic

hard rock burgers - always a winner!

chocolate cups filed with cherry liquer

specialty of sintra

pasteis de belem!

delicious custard tarts with a creme brulee style caramelised crust on top!

Wendy's Lime Mint Icecream

Make a syrup with 2 cups of caster sugar and two cups of water.  After sugar has dissolved, allow to boil, unstirred, for 12 minutes.

When cool, add half a cup of lemon juice and 50 roughly chopped mint leaves. 
Whizz in a blender till mint is as fine as possible.

Lightly mix with big spoon, 2 cups of Greek yoghurt and 1/2 cup of thickened cream.  Add the cool/cold mint syrup, and mix  thoroughly.

Pour into two old icecream containers and put in freezer till about 3-5 centimetres around the edges has frozen.   This will take around 3-4 hours.  Turn out into a bowl and beat till all smooth again.  Refreeze and repeat this process as many times as you like, at least 2 or 3.

Tastes great with macerated strawberries (chop and soak a punnet of berries in a couple of tablespoons of caster sugar, couple of tablespoons of lemon juice, about 4 tablespoons  or more of orange liquer.  I use peach schnapps.  YUM! YUM!