The natural taste of fish... WITH SALT!

The trick of the salty fish is the raw material and the oven timing! The rest is only informative!

There is no need for a recipe for salty fish, just use the great timing of Jamie Oliver:

10 minutes for each 450 g at 250ºC,  switch off the oven and let it cook for 15 minutes more (this last step is essential).

All said, buy fresh fish without scales and cleaned (we always do Sea Bass, however you can use Bream, Salmon, Trout, Brill), prepare the oven trail with aluminium foil (easy cleaning), spread 2 cm of coarse salt, put the fish over the salt and cover it with 2 cm. Put some aromatic herbs on the fish cavity (this time was coriander, rosemary and Thyme from our kitchen garden).

The lemon goes to decorate, but some people like to season the fish with it.

The side dish was a fresh salad with green peppers,cucumber, tomato, onion and corn season with olive oil, vinegar and nuts.

Marvellous dish with a good white wine!

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Chicken legs in the Oven

If you usually buy free-range chicken to prepare for two persons you will certainly have the same problem as me: it is too much, if you do not buy it  try it and you will see that it has nothing to do with the typical battery chicken...

This week I bought a free-range chicken to prepare a soup and as it was too much I decided to prepare the legs in the oven for the following day's lunch

With the help of a mortar mix the pepper grains, salt, two garlic cloves, a splash of extra virgin olive oil and two lime's juice and marinade the chicken in this mix for about 1 hour.

Add a few slices of red pepper, a laurel leaf and take it to the oven for about 45 minutes.

Add the thinly sliced ​​potatoes and take it again to the oven till they are blond and cooked...

Sugar Syrup

After the curiosity and surprise of some friends in the last weekend about what was the liquid that I was adding to some cocktails, I decided to come back writing on the blog with what is nothing more than a simple sugar syrup, an essential tool for prepare or correct several cocktails ...

It is very easy to prepare, put a pan on very low heat and add half sugar and half water and stir until it dissolves completely. Let it cool and store.

My Mom's fish Soup!

More than the recipe by itself, I would like to pay a public tribute to my parents as they are the main responsibles for this passion about food & gastronomy...

All the afternoons taking care of the kitchen garden and collecting the nuts from our centenary tree with my father or the ritual of going to the market all Saturday mornings to buy fresh fish, meat and vegetables with my mother... Both are the real responsibles for this metamorphosis from eating to live to live for eating!

After this, it's quite obvious that today I'll tell you one of my mother's recipe and, for me, the best fish soup I've ever tasted... 

You will need:

Fish (I suggest you to use monkfish or ling)
3 onions

1 red pepper

3 clove of garlic

3 potatoes

1 egg

mint
salt & extra virgin olive oil

Put everything on a pan and, on top, add the kind of fish that you prefer in order to avoid the spines to mix with the rest of the ingredients. Cover all with water, season it with salt and a bit of extra virgin olive oil and let it cook.

When the potatoes are cooked, take the fish carefully in order to avoid any spine to mix with the rest. Grind the soup and add one egg mixing it in order to spread it across all the soup. Add the fish and it is ready to serve.

Grilled Avocado Salad

Since we discovered the how to prepare home-made pesto, it became significantly easier to prepare a salad in days that you have lack of ingredients! Today we opened the fridge and there was: avocado, dry tomato, Parmesan & cucumber...

We prepare the pesto with: basil, nuts, garlic and parmesan (this time we added a bit of butter but it is completely dispensable...)! put it into a crusher and adjust it to your taste adding lemon juice, salt & black pepper.

Squeeze the lemon to a dish, add salt & black pepper. Cut the avocado in slices and dive it in the lemon. pass the slices of the avocado by extra virgin olive oil and grill it for a couple of minutes and let it cool.

You can use both mixed salad or hedge mustard, cucumber & dried tomato! Add the avocado & the pesto and enjoy it!

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Portuguese Typical Starter - Donax Clams

If you ever went to Portugal you must have read in the restaurants menus Ameijoas à Bulhão Pato. Despite it is originally done with clams I use domax clams, my favourites!

As many traditional Portuguese cuisine dishes it is easy to cook and delicious to taste!

You will need:

Domax Clams or clams

Extra virgin Olive Oil

Garlic

Coriander

Salt, black pepper and lemon juice

In a pan with extra virgin Olive oil, add the grossly chopped garlic and let it cook a bit. Add the coriander, then the domax clams and cover the pan. wait till all the domax open shaking the pan from time to time. 

Finally add lemon juice and depending on your taste season with salt & pepper. Serve it immediately. 

Do you enjoy Sunset?

Jimbaran - Bali, Indonesia

Sunset is definitely one of the special moments of de day, that's why in lots of guides there are tips about the best places to watch it. 

If you think about it can be a perfect scenario for completely opposite situations like being alone meditating or for a sunset party in the beach...

It can be a very romantic ocasion to be with that special person, or just grab your camera spend this moment with her shooting thousands of photos. Like most of the best things of life, just let your instinct guide you and enjoy it...

I must confess I love sunsets, if possible with a good cocktail, but always with my camera! 

These are some of my photos, and I would challenge you to share yours on our facebook page: www.facebook.com/FoodDrinkTheGoodLife

Jimbaran - bali, Indonesia



If you go to Bali, you must try fresh fish barbecues at Jimbaran's beachfront seafood warung, so my advice is that you go a bit earlier and enjoy this amazing sunset...


Cavallería Beach, Menorca, Spain

On my previous post about Menorca beaches', I've shared other photo of Cavallería Beach. Below you can find other precious sunset in Menorca. Just 5 minutes away from ciutadella, on Maxi's bar you can eat&drink some appetisers while enjoy the sunset... (just the appetisers, as this place is one of those that you shall never see a local eating and it's not because it's expensive...)

Maxi's Bar, Cala en Blanes - Ciutadella, Menorca, Spain

Despite the sunset is behind the mountain, in Troia you can enjoy a very special and also unique sunset... with a 180º view you can get different effects with the sea and Arrabida Mountain outlines...



Troia, Portugal

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