Jemma Eat Portugal

RECIPE :: Home-Made Nandos AKA James Makes Dinner

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Jemma

Eagle eyed Twitter users may have noticed that yesterday was National Men Make Dinner Day across the pond. I say eagle-eyed because there wasn’t much publicity about it; I’m guessing that most men (and perhaps some women) wanted to keep that one quiet.

I’m a lucky girl as James is a great cook and often chips in around the kitchen. We tend to take it in turns anyway, but when I saw British Lamb tweeting about the ‘holiday’ I told James that tonight was most certainly his turn. He said that was fine, but I had to choose what we were eating. I also had to stay out of his way in the kitchen.

I quite fancied mashed potatoes, he fancied garlic bread, so we decided to try something a bit different; home-made Nandos!

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Jemma Eat Algarve

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Jemma

Face it, Edinburghers; this summer has been a wash-out. And judging by the 70mph winds  this M0nday (I thought my balcony doors were about to get blown in!) it seems like Autumn (if not winter) is well and truly on it’s way.  Yep, it was a stark difference toa  few weeks ago  when I was toddling around in a Primark sundress and was still too warm.

But then the fact that I was hanging around on a beach in the Algarve might have something to do with that.But you don’t want to hear about 14km daunders through the countryside, or scrambling down rocky cliff-faces to get to a secret beach, or even about me swimming in the freshwater Barragem do Arade; nope, you’re here for one thing and that’s food!

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