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Tag Archives: cherries
Recipes for Port: Tuna steak with black Italian rice, spices and cherry/beetroot sauce
We cooked the black rice* with salt and pepper and then incorporated curcuma, cinnamon and mild curry. Into the rice we also added some cherry/beetroot purée that we had made (just pitted cherries, cooked beetroot and a little … Continue reading
Recipes for Port: Pan fried Calves liver with cherry and beetroot sauce
We pan fried small portions of calves’ liver with salt, pepper and olive oil. We kept the heat high enough to get the outside of the liver crispy (bitterness) on the outside and keep a soft rare center … Continue reading
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Tagged beets, cherries, cinnamon, curcuma, liver, Port
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Recipes for Port: Salad on a spoon: Sardines, melon and cherries
Sounds wild, I know. But it works like a charm. The sardines are a tribute to Portuguese tradition. (And they do grow a lot of cherries in Portugal, I don’t know about melons…) Fresh sardine fillets cut into … Continue reading
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Tagged cherries, cinnamon, curcuma, melon, Port, sardines, spoon
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Spoon Recipes to accompany Port: Why
What inspired us to create these recipes? 1. We found that even the Portuguese do not actually ‘drink’ a lot of Port. They sometimes have it as an aperitif, but even that is rare. 2. Port is rich, both in … Continue reading
Posted in Portugal, Recipes, what am I drinking with this dish?
Tagged balance, beets, cherries, Landanger, Port, Quinta Senhora do Convento, spice, spoon, strawberries, tannin
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