entrudo, entradas, entrudanças

Instead of sleeping in the snow, this year for Entrudo we went south to the small village of Entradas  to attend Entrudanças and spent 3 lovely days dancing, singing and eating. 

Dancing: in the past few years, we have attended traditional dance balls and workshops, so coming to Entrudanças was perfect. Though we still are quite a  bit dis-coordinate, we practiced and danced like crazy!

Singing: although Entrudanças is mostly about dancing, singing is a major tradition in Alentejo. We were so lucky to have met up with a friend of mine's sister that invited us for dinner at a tavern where we ate and sang along to traditional songs. Later in evening Pedro Mestre joined us for more sing-a-long, which was a nice surprise. 

Eating: this was amazing!! In the same day we ate pig brains and frog legs and tasted my first authentic açorda. I was so inspired, that on our way home we bought bread and I tried to make açorda for dinner! 

Of course we asked around about traditional bakeries that still bake with wood ovens but no luck.  

Coincidentally, I just read this post on traditional Alentejo bread over at Xuxudidi which makes me want to meet this lovely lady.

yes!

 

all photos by Henrique Marques da Silva

after 3 amazing years, we said yes to one another.
you truly complete me.

aaaaarrrrgg

Photo: Henrique Marques da Silva

a quick pic into an amazing week.

more info soon... 

Aaaaaarrrrgg!

three

One was weird. 

Two was wonderful and reassuring. 

Three is love. 

no time

... between being a pirate, preparing classes and moving back north, I have no time to blog. sorry.
oh and happy new year!

a slice of heaven

Slice of Heaven is an association that Pedro and I are members of.

It's current project is to help out Insurupe, a small village in Mozambique. They focus on ways to help the village become self sufficient through sustainable actions. So the first thing they are doing is digging a well so that villagers won't have to walk miles for fresh drinking water. 

More than half the money needed has already been raised but we need your help for the other half. By buying a t-shirt, like the one Pedro is wearing in this promotional stop-motion. Each t-shirt cost 10€ and they come in different colors.
Please spread the word and email me if your interested in helping.

PS: #61 - make a stop-motion: check!

look up

Alfama

thanksgiving dinner and apple pie

# 94 - apple pie from scratch: from this smitten kitchen recipe (even though I didn't follow it strictly)

# 90: what better way to get into the soon-to-be american way of life than by hosting a thanksgiving dinner a day before! We had friends over and ate turkey (not a whole one cause that wouldn't fit in the oven!) with spicy lentils with feta cheese, baked sweet potatoes and pumpkin, peas and carrots, cranberry wannabe sauce, rice, corn bread, cheese, wine, tuna dip, ice-cream and my beautiful apple pie. 

corn bread

corn bread made in Lisbon. 

tomorrow i'm checking off # 90 and # 94 from my list!

shop local

I wanted wrist warmers. Sandra's are beautiful but I wanted to buy local. 

So I discovered Lisbon based Ana Amorim who is behind the shop wearaddiction and her lovely mustard yellow wrist warmers.

And now they are mine.