Saturday, April 05, 2008

How green is my soup

[April 5, Coimbra]

Little by little we are trying the Portuguese cuisine. It is not always a success. A few days ago Bettie had salted cod, and I had a curried chicken (the Goan connection, you know). The curry was instantly forgettable, and Bettie's cod was vividly memorable, but for the all wrong reasons.

But today we tried something worth repeating: Caldo Verde. a green soup of kale and potato puree. Fairly good in a soul-food sort of way. We also tried the local Coimbra pastry "pastel de Tentugal"; it made us long for Belem and pastel de nata.

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