The rain promised yesterday probably appeared after we had actually gone to bed as we never heard it, but the ground was wet this morning. We drove over to Arganil to visit the market. The plant sellers were there with healthy plug plants; cabbages, tomatoes, peppers, leeks, and lettuce.
We bought some vegetables off the market; a huge bunch of fresh watercress and another huge bunch of flat leaf parsely, six juicy vine tomatoes, a lettuce and about half a dozen turnips all for about 5 1/2 euros. Then we had a lovely cafe meio leite in a cafe and treated ourselves to fresh doughnuts. Delicious.
While the weather was overcast, there were glimpses of sunshine, and overall it felt very warm and there was a happy bustle. A lovely morning. Back over towards Oliveira the sunshine was more sparse and now it is raining and it doesn't look like it will stop anytime soon. Time to light the stove.
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Thursday, 4 February 2010
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Tremocos
The tremocos were sort of nutty in texture and slightly salty, though ours did come in brine, so that might have something to do with it! Not sure if they only ever come in brine. They must be far healthier than peanuts though. Nice with a Super Bock!
The baking of bread never happened yesterday and will most likely happen today instead. We never did see any rain though we heard it pitter pattering for about 5 minutes during the night. Instead we went geocaching and bagged four in one day. The caching took us to some interesting archaeological sites such as a burial chamber, Roman ampitheatre and remains of a forum, also what is thought to be a Roman font, and a mystery cache over at Oliveira do Hospital (OdH) that led us to explore a bit more of the town.
Whilst in OdH we were feeling rather peckish we took a deep breath and went into a cafe to try and order something to eat. Suze ordered cheese toasties, or at least she thought she did. When they came they were magnificent, but were ham and cheese toasties. The poor waitress looked horrifed when we tried to explain that we were vegetarians. Anyway, we did what most vegetarians would NOT do, and pulled the ham off and ate the rest. We snaffled the ham to bring home for the cat (Mouser Extraordinaire). The toasties were good value. We learned perhaps to be a bit more specific, to say queijo somente (hopefully this means 'cheese only').
The geocaching took us most of the day and by the time we arrived home we caught up on a few chores like watering the vegetable patch (that seems to have developed molehills). The veggies we put in are coming along well, especially the green leafies like lettuce, cabbage and broccoli. The beetroot are okay but slow going. The carrots are looking a bit sorry for themselves.
We have a glut of ripe tomatoes and there are really only the two of us to try and eat them. We don't have enough jars to make chutney, so we are on a mission to try and come up with some delicious recipes to use some up. Fortunately Jon is a great cook, not so good for the waistline though.
The baking of bread never happened yesterday and will most likely happen today instead. We never did see any rain though we heard it pitter pattering for about 5 minutes during the night. Instead we went geocaching and bagged four in one day. The caching took us to some interesting archaeological sites such as a burial chamber, Roman ampitheatre and remains of a forum, also what is thought to be a Roman font, and a mystery cache over at Oliveira do Hospital (OdH) that led us to explore a bit more of the town.
Whilst in OdH we were feeling rather peckish we took a deep breath and went into a cafe to try and order something to eat. Suze ordered cheese toasties, or at least she thought she did. When they came they were magnificent, but were ham and cheese toasties. The poor waitress looked horrifed when we tried to explain that we were vegetarians. Anyway, we did what most vegetarians would NOT do, and pulled the ham off and ate the rest. We snaffled the ham to bring home for the cat (Mouser Extraordinaire). The toasties were good value. We learned perhaps to be a bit more specific, to say queijo somente (hopefully this means 'cheese only').
The geocaching took us most of the day and by the time we arrived home we caught up on a few chores like watering the vegetable patch (that seems to have developed molehills). The veggies we put in are coming along well, especially the green leafies like lettuce, cabbage and broccoli. The beetroot are okay but slow going. The carrots are looking a bit sorry for themselves.
We have a glut of ripe tomatoes and there are really only the two of us to try and eat them. We don't have enough jars to make chutney, so we are on a mission to try and come up with some delicious recipes to use some up. Fortunately Jon is a great cook, not so good for the waistline though.
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