A little update

Hello everyone!

I know I haven't posted in a while and I am writing this post to explain. I finished school in the beginning of June. Then I spent my days enjoying my free time, having fun with friends, spending time with family, admiring the beautiful sights of Portugal and just relaxing. 

By the time I looked at my calendar it was July already and that meant two things, one, I was turning 18 on the fourth and two I had to start packing, because I was moving back to Hungary in a week. I spent my birthday with family and friends and it was amazing, but then came the packing. We packed up the whole house, we said our last goodbyes and left our second home. I was very excited to go home and also because  we went by car so I got to travel for a few days before getting back to Hungary. We stopped in Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, ... 

This trip was so nice, but when we finally arrived I was more than happy to see my family, my house and my friends. I think you appreciate more the little, normal, everyday things if you are away for a while. I was just excited to settle in again. 

I missed blogging a lot and I thought about posting so many times, but I was in a rush with all the moving, traveling and getting home. I didn't want to put up something that I wasn't satisfied with. I just find it important to think about my posts and do quality work. 

I wanted to write this post to say I am still alive, happy and home. Sadly, I'm going to post less, since it is summer and I am traveling and taking some time for my self. Even if I'm not posting on my blog I upload pictures on my instagram so feel free to follow me there as well. ( http://instagram.com/breakfast_at_katas/)
I hope everyone is having a great summer! 

Bye! 

Guincho salad

There is this perfect little café which looks over my favourite beach, Guincho. We go there so many times, because there is nothing better than drinking a coffee, eating a croissant while you're watching the ocean.

I'm on a school break now, so I have time to relax and just enjoy living in Portugal and being with my family. And so the other day I went to this café with my family and I decided to show you guys how amazing this place is.

There is a salad which I love to order, because it is unique, tasty and also filling. I had this many times and the last time I went I wrote down all the ingredients I tasted, so I could try to recreate at home. The next day I made this salad and I think it turned out pretty great.

With this recipe I'm only going to give you the ingredients and how to make it, because I feel like with salad recipes you don't exactly need the measurements, because all depends on you're taste. 

The café

The salad you can order in the café

My recreation

SALAD INGREDIENTS: 

chicken breast
curry
salad mix
coriander
couscous
apple

FOR THE DRESSING:
olive oil
cinnamon
curry
lemon

Season the chicken with salt and pepper and fry it in a pan with some oil and curry. Add your salad mix, peeled and sliced apple, couscous (which you've cooked according to the instructions on the box), coriander and the fried curry chicken into a bowl. For the dressing mix the olive oil, salt, pepper, curry, cinnamon and some lemon juice in a glass and drizzle it on the salad. The good thing about salads is that if you forget something you can always add it later. 

Enjoy!

I had so much fun making this post for you guys, so I hope you like it! 

See you next week :) 

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A Real Portuguese Pastelaria

Since today was a Sunday and my family and I were a bit tired we decided to have a chill day and spend some time together. So we started the day by sleeping in until noon and then we went to have brunch in a pastelaria in Monte Estoril. A pastelaria is a mixture of a cafe and a bakery shop and here in Portugal people have a routine of going to these pastelarias to have breakfast, lunch or just a snack. So we went to this place called Zenith Pastelaria, Salão De Chá. It is a lovely cafe that we discovered about a month ago and I really like to come here and order my usual and have a nice chat with whoever I am with. This place has my favourite pastries and also it has a modern design, like tables made from mirrors - so it is very hard not to look at yourself all the time! :)

I usually order galão(latte), a sandwich that is made from puff pastry and has butter, ham, cheese, lettuce and tomato inside. 

Russo is my favourite sweet pastry and because you have to finish brunch with something sweet I had to order one. It is made from puff pastry, it has a vanilla and cinnamon flavoured cream inside and it is dusted with icing sugar and cinnamon. It looks so tempting and trust me when I say this - it's the BEST! And of course they had Pastel de Natas which I'm not going to write about now, but you can expect a post on it soon!

After we had a very nice brunch we went on a beautiful and relaxing walk on the beach. The ocean was stunning as always, and today was the fist warm day (it was around 18℃ )and finally it was so nice to be able to wear a jacket instead of my winter coat. 

While we were having brunch I took some photos of the place and the food, so I could show you guys what a real Portuguese pastelaria looks like. 

 

Galão (latte)

Sandwich

Chocolate Salami

My sister eating the Chocolate salami :)

 

Russo

My mom cought me looking at my self in the mirror  :)

The cool desing of the place

I like to write posts where I can give a little insight into my life and show you fun places in Portugal.I hope you enjoyed this post and feel free to write a comment on the blog, facebook, instagram or on twitter. 

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