Friday, 07th August 2009

Back to Portugal again...

More than one year has passed and now we are back again. Back again in Portugal, the land of sailors and conquerors.

Evening sun at the beach

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Visit at the market in Alcantarilha

More precisely in Alcantarilha, a small town in the South of Portugal, near Armacao de Pera/Algarve. Here are living my parents and I am coming every year to spend some weeks at the sea, to relax from the stressing life in Germany. But not without updating my blog with new recipes I tested under the sun of the South.   

My mother’s kitchen  with the typical flair of the Southern area

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The pomegranate tree

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The fig tree

In my parents' garden you find amongst others a pomegranate- and a fig tree. Both trees are full of fruits, but I suppose that the pomegranates are ready not before I’ll leave this country. But the figs are soft and sweet now. To use this opportunity I have thought for long how to incorporate this fruit into some kind of dish. My first idea was to create a jam but at the end I decided to make a cake out of this wonderful fruit - and so I did.

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