Street art / social commentary images taken on a walk around Lisbon. This illustration perplexes me a bit, though. Is it a hanging eye-ball, head? This broke my heart. A lot. A ubiquitous image, I know. The Portuguese sailing ship sits on almost all street lamps. I wish I knew the symbolism of the flower…
Tag: recipes
garlic confit
Confit began as a way to preserve food before refrigeration. Typically, confit is a method of cooking meat or vegetables in fat for several hours over low heat. This is fundamentally the difference between fried food and confit. The french word for jam is confiture so this term also applies to cooking fruit in a…
chewy dumpling soup
Every culture has a dish that is a careful blend of ingredients and / or a demonstration of technique or skill. Curries, paella, roti or machboos, bouillabaisse and sushi – all fit into these 2 categories. Some dishes even require a blend of different items to create a single ingredient which is then used to…