Commonly, this salad is made with black-eyed peas. Corn is not usually part of it. Sometimes is served together with tuna. Normally it is pretty good. This time was different. I guess I was craving that black-eyed peas salad for lunch. But black-eyed peas were nowhere to be seen in the pantry. Not to mention [...]
Dali Museum and Big News
One of these last weekends we visited the west coast of Florida, more precisely St. Petersburg. The Dali Museum was in our plan for a while since we heard it had opened in a brand new building in late January of the present year. The location could not be better, in downtown St. Petersburg with [...]
Mangoland Series: Mango with Greek Yogurt
What kind of breakfast do you usually have? I’m questioned about this often and some people may wonder why I don’t have many breakfast posts. The reason is as simple as my regular kind of breakfast. I’m basically a yogurt kind of girl. Well, let me explain better. Unless I’m on vacation in some nice [...]
A Special Birthday at Disney
It was last Saturday. Two years have gone since I’ve seen those sweet eyes for the first time. Wide open eyes since her first contact with the world. Blue bright with interminable lashes looking at me and daddy. Inevitable memorable moments. My first child, a daughter that changed my life forever, in an awesome way. [...]
Hurricane Irene on a Florida Beach
The first hurricane threat of the season, Irene, luckily stayed offshore of the east coast of Florida. Not so fortunate were Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Bahamas and Turks and Caicos islands. Ahead of us, there is an extraordinary threat from North Carolina to the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast and New England. This includes Norfolk, [...]
Mangoland Series: Mango Salsa
This week I’m featuring another mango recipe with our juicy local mangoes. My daughter helped me to prepare this dish. If you ask her, she will name all the ingredients as she passes me each one: mango, pineapple, tomato, pepper, parsley, lime. Exactly like this, only in Portuguese. “Of course”, she would say, this time [...]
Lime-Lemon Sorbet
I know. It’s seems I’ve been a little absent these days. Can I excuse myself with the summertime slow down period? After all, isn’t August the prime time for vacation? It used to be, at least in Portugal where many companies and the Parliament closed for the month and will return in September together with [...]
Mangoland Series: Tropical Skewers
What a Summer it is! The thermometer in the balcony has just reached 114 F. It feels like someone turned on a sauna outside 24 hours a day. I’m certainly not a good Floridian on this, I just can’t stand this kind of heat. So, while I’m feeling uncomfortable breathing whenever I leave any air [...]