Comments for Food and Wine Portugal

Comment on Iceland – Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal by Maria Loureiro

Maria Loureiro — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:25:58 +0000

I loved Iceland,particularly the big variety of spices to prare Asian dishes.The one thing that surprised me was the fact they don’t sell Portuguese wine.I think they should.

Comment on White Wine Review: Fonte de Nico by Portugal Wine Review - Porca da Murça | Food and Wine Portugal

Portugal Wine Review - Porca da Murça | Food and Wine Portugal — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:46:27 +0000

[...] those that know their Portuguese wine, I would describe this as rather like white Fonte de Nico (one of our regular budget wines), but one that is a little more grown-up, oaky, and sophisticated. [...]

Comment on Iceland – Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal by The Cult of the Bimbi Machine Thermomix in Portugal | Food and Wine Portugal

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:41:16 +0000

[...] Iceland – Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal » The Cult of Bimbi in Portugal The Portuguese don’t really “do” ready meals, and [...]

Comment on Brisa Do Rio Tavira Restaurant Review by Moving to Portugal - The A to Z - Part 2 | movingtoportugal

Moving to Portugal - The A to Z - Part 2 | movingtoportugal — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:21:42 +0000

[...] air-conditioning to remove the chill from the air. Also back in January 2011 I had just discovered Brisa do Rio – probably still our favourite restaurant in the town of Tavira. It’s hard to believe [...]

Comment on Restaurant Review – Dona Barca, Portimao by Moving to Portugal - The A to Z - Part 2 | movingtoportugal

Moving to Portugal - The A to Z - Part 2 | movingtoportugal — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:18:24 +0000

[...] It’s still the same place though, offering wonderful fresh fish (especially sardines), great house wine in generous carafes, and low prices. For more details, you will find a review on Dona Barca on my Food and Wine Portugal blog. [...]

Comment on The Cult of Bimbi in Portugal by dogotaro

dogotaro — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:42:32 +0000

Friends of mine locally have one of these machines & it really is quite brilliant…some of our group ask them to bring it along when they’re invuted as it produces some tricky things…such as Crème Brûlée…effortlessly & to perfection.
Hardly worth buying if you’re a singleton but, even at the horrendous price, almost a ‘must’ for a family if you have the space for yet another gadget in the kitchen.

Comment on The Cult of Bimbi in Portugal by JC

JC — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:12:46 +0000

No worry, Bimbi won’t replace all your cooking, in fact,
there are small set of cooking that Bimbi won’t help.
But for soaps and cakes there isn’t anything better.

I do believe that price is very high for what it is,
but having one I now can’t live without it.

Don’t expect also to safe huge amounts of money,
as some of the ingredients need to make some cooks surpass what you can buy in the supermarket already done (e.g bread).

But knowing that you don’t have to worry about over-burn and make the cook always the same way (e.g. rice always good),
are indeed life saver.

Portuguese man convert to the Bimbi

Comment on The Cult of Bimbi in Portugal by Tracey Hand

Tracey Hand — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:30:47 +0000

I’m fairly sure that none of our Portuguese friends could possibly afford such a thing as its probably 2-3 months wages for them!
The idea doesn’t even tempt me. I enjoy my kitchen too much too.
While it might be handy once a week or so (on the real ‘CBA’ days) you can bet that, once owned, it’s used far more than that!
I’ll stick to my emergency fish fingers ‘n’ chips meal and enjoy my own meals the rest of the time.

£1000 though! Can you imagine?!

Comment on Apolonia Supermarkets Algarve by Iceland Opens its First Store in Portugal in Albufeira | Food and Wine Portugal

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:02:09 +0000

[...] and expats alike. I can see the keen pricing offering a challenge to smaller food importers and Apolonia – but that is just the way business goes. Overseas and Iceland seem to be doing extremely well so [...]

Comment on “Portuguese?” Lemongrass Tea by Maoiliosa

Maoiliosa — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:18:44 +0000

Lemon grass is so easy to grow here. We live in west Algarve, and have no problem growing the plant. In actual fact we seem to be constantly cutting it back! My husband has it growing in a pot, and I have it growing in a raised bed. Our Portuguese neighbours use it a lot for tea.