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One of my favourite Portuguese desserts is arroz doce (rice pudding), so when a friend discovered it on the wonderful Sami’s Colourful World blog, I had to make sure this was the next in my series of Portuguese recipes. Arroz…
It is orange season again in the Algarve and my mother-in-law’s orchard is once again laden with more sweet, ripe fruit than we can possibly know what to do with. Returning home with a bag full of oranges, my wife…
As you may have read in a recent post at Moving to Portugal, the first of the year’s oranges were harvested in the in-laws orchard a couple of weeks ago, so the time came to find various ways to use…
Portuguese cakes are a wonderful thing, and these delicate little fairy cakes my wife made for this guest post were certainly sweet and addictive. Although these cakes came from one our favourite books of Portuguese recipes, Piri Piri Starfish, I…
The well-known Eton Mess dessert of strawberries, meringue and whipped cream was always a favourite of ours back in England and a great way of using up a glut of strawberries. We seem to be reaching the tail-end of the…
There are plentiful juicy peaches and nectarines all over the Algarve at the moment and this rich but summery dessert is a delicious way to use a few of them. Recently enjoyed by our family visitors, it is adapted from…
