Sweet and salty salad

I believe that every restaurant should have at least one good salad on their menu. I am so happy whenever I go to a place that actually makes for example a good caesar or salmon salad. There is a place close to my house with good food and a beautiful view of the ocean. Recently I tried one of their salads. It was the perfect combination of sweet and salty and it was just different from the regular ones. There is fruit in it which makes it fresh and some nuts so it has some crunch in it. 

I wanted to upload this recipe last week, but unfortunately, my camera didn't want to cooperate, so I remade it one week later. I'm so happy that finally I can share this with you guys.

INGREDIENTS: 

salad mix

mango 

queijo fresco ( This is a protuguese cheese, which can be replaced with mozzarella.) 

walnuts

dressing:

olive oil

honey
salt and pepper to taste

Just like for my other salads, I like to give the ingredients, but not the measurements, because when it comes to a salad it is completely up to your taste how much you want to add from the different ingredients. 

Put together all your ingredients and then make the dressing. You put just honey on it, but if you make it with olive oil, then be sure to use mainly honey and just a bit of olive oil so it doesn't dominate the flavour. Whip the dressing up, and don't be afraid to taste! :)

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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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Salmon and Chicken Wrap

Wraps are among my favourite things to eat, because you can really put anything that you like in them and they taste amazing. I usually eat lunch at home twice a week and that is when I like to make myself something filling but healthy. Most of the time I make  either a chicken or a salmon wrap. They are different but both of them taste really good. I like the chicken one, because I put tomato sauce in it and it tastes great, and I like the salmon one, because I LOVE salmon! :) You can use other ingredients too, but it is very important to put crispy fresh salad with it.

I want to share with you these recipes so you can also make them when you want to have a quick lunch or dinner.

Chicken wrap:

half a breast of a chicken

chicken spice (any kind prefer) 

1 wrap

1-2 tablespoons of tomato sauce

3-4 cherry tomatoes

1 slice of cheese (or just grate some on top)

some salad

some mushrooms

Salmon wrap:

1 slice of salmon

1 wrap

half of an avocado

lemon (juice)

some salad with arugula 

cheese

3 cherry tomatoes

1 tablespoon of cream fresh (tejföl) (this is optional)

Chicken wrap:

First, cut your chicken into little chunks, then fry them in a pan in some oil and spice. Get your wrap and spread the tomato souce and then add the chicken, tomatoes, salad, mushrooms and cheese (you can use any kind of cheese, I used parmesan). Roll it up and my tip for you is if you're not going to eat it right away, then put a toothpick in the center so it holds the wrap togehter and when you are ready to eat just take it out.

Salmon wrap:

Take the wrap and spread some sour cream on it and add the salmon and the avocado and sqeeze some lemon juice on them. Then add the salad, cheese, tomatoes and roll it up and you are done.

You can use any other ingredients that you would like for these wraps. Enjoy!

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Time Out Mercado da Ribeira

Last week was my elder sister's last weekend here in Portugal before she went back to University, so we made a family weekend out of it. We had amazing breakfast together, we went to the beach, visited friends, and we also watched old family home videos. For the last dinner on Sunday we wanted to go to a good restaurant and so we went to a place which is one of the best places I have ever been to. It is the Time Out Mercado da Ribeira in Lisbon. This big hall used to be a fish market (from the 13th century) and now it is like a big restaurant or stylish food court which has Lisbon's favourite food shops and restaurants.

When you walk in there is a big bright open space full of people (especially on the weekends). The outlook of the shops and restaurants have the same style, but they all have different food and drinks. You can walk around and look at all the open kitchens of the different stalls, and see, smell and experience all kinds of Portuguese specialities.

It is really hard to choose from all of the lovely looking food, but whatever you pick you can't go wrong.

Soup:

There is this fantastic soup place where every day there are 4 or 5 soups that you can choose from. We tasted a mushroom (with cheese and toasted onions), a mango (with almond) and a pepper soup(with toasted bread and bacon). All of them were amazing, but out of the three soups the mango was the best, because it was just the perfect combination of sweet and salty. Also I loved the titles of the soup containers. :) 

Mushroom soup

Mango soup

Pepper soup

Main cours:

For the main cours we decided to choose from various places. My older sister had pork (from the Alentejo region) with mashed potatoes, cabbage and bacon. I have never eaten pork that was so soft and heavenly and the bacon was just perfect with the cabbage. This dish was my favourite out of all. My mom decided to order a portuguese Bacalhau com natas which is an oven-baked dish made out of layers of fish (bacalhau), onions, potatoes and cream. My younger sister likes to keep it simple so she had a cheeseburger with fries. It is so simple but they managed to make something so mainstream so delicious. My dad ordered something more adventurous a Ceviche made from fish. :) It is made of raw fish with mango and some tortilla chips and salad on top. I tried the bruschetta wich was also very tasty. We shared all the food and tried everything we ordered and everyone agreed that the pork was the best of all.

Pork with mashed potatoes, cabbage and bacon.

Bacalhau com natas

Cheeseburger with fries

Ceviche

 Bruschetta

Dessert: 

We ate a lot of different food and so by the time we got to dessert we were full, but we couldn't miss out on the best ice cream. Santini has the best ice cream I have ever had. I always recommend it to people to try this place when they come to Portugal and nobody has ever regretted tasting it. I decided to have mango and raspberry and they were amazing, because they both tasted just like the actual fruit. My older sister had peanut and cantaloupe and my younger sister asked for a pancake with two scoops of ice cream on top (chocolate and chocolate chips).

We also tasted some macarons from another shop and we tried the peppermint, the chocolate and the coffe.

We had a blast, we laughed a lot and ate a lot and it was just great.I just loved everything about this place, the design, the food, the atmosphere the idea and the concept of it. I know that this wasn't the last time I went to Time Out Mercado da Ribeira.

A little father daughter arm wrestling

When you find out you are going to eat ice cream at Santini

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