October in your Vegetable garden in Portugal
Things to do in November in your Veg Garden in Portugal.
March is a busy time down in the veg patch.
Things to do in September in your garden in Central Portugal.
Things to do in the Veg. garden in July and August.
There are lots of beaches in central Portugal, we have picked out 10 of our favourites. They are a mix
Óbidos Chocolate Festival takes place around March/April each year.
One of biggest Motorbike Festivals in Portual
Preparations for the Festa start early in Tomar.
In the second of Hey Portugal's series about “Festa dos Tabulerios” in Tomar Sylvia and Peter take a look at
Meatballs with Endive and Potato Puree
Here a very easy recipe for a typical Dutch dish.
A Greek recipe which is great for serving for a picnic, at a summer BBQ or as a starter.
Here is the recipe you have all been waiting for. For all of you who miss tinned baked beans read
Milk Braised Pork
Great Sunday Lunch or Family gathering.
Fish with Pesto Roasted Peppers and Tomatoes
This recipe is simple but very tasty and filling.
Take it with a pinch of Salt?
Meaning: A slightly more recent version of the original "with a grain of salt," it is an idiom meaning to view something with reservation, or not to take it literally; that is, accepting a statement but maintaining a degree of scepticism about its truth.
Its most fabled origin is traced back to Mithradates the Great, one of Rome’s most formidable and successful enemies. When he was finally defeated by Pompey
and in danger of capture, he attempted suicide by poison. The attempt failed because of his immunity to the poison and Mithradates was forced to ask his Gaul bodyguard and friend, Bituitus, to kill him by the sword. Conqueror Gnaeus Pompeius found in Mithradates’ private cabinet a handwritten recipe for the immunity: “Take two dried walnuts, two figs, and twenty leaves of rue; pound them all together, with the addition of a grain of salt; if a person takes this mixture fasting, he will be proof against all poisons for that day”.
The saying more likely comes from the fact that food is more easily swallowed if taken with a small amount of salt.
English Anglican bible commentator John Trapp, in his 5 volumes ‘Commentary on the Old and New Testaments’ (1654 sqq.), noted that the books of the bible “… (are) to be taken with a grain of salt". (Somewhat radical for the 17th Century, no doubt).
The Latin word salis means both "salt" and "wit," so that the Latin phrase "cum grano salis" could be translated as both "with a grain of salt" and "with a grain (a small amount) of wit".
Written by Hans Lamers - South Africans in Portugal.