Generally, at The Arc, we like to think that we’re ahead of the curve, but it seems like our summer 2017 vacation destination was right on trend, Portugal. The Algarve, Lisbon, and Porto were on everyone’s list, Instagram feed, and mind. The country has been a long time favorite vacation destination of Europeans, with the Algarve being the ultimate stop. For those unfamiliar, it runs the southern coast of the country and is home to many of its most picturesque beaches. Think sweeping cliffs, pristine blue water and this compounded with over 300 days of sun annually, how did it take North Americans so long to discover?
Landing in Faro with stops in Olhao and Lagos, we were looking forward to experiencing a little more than the beach. We’re
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After a survey of its offerings, we picked up sardines, clams, special Portuguese greens (that had a mild resemblance to kale) and an array of fresh produce.
Cooking in a rental or Airbnb kitchen can certainly pose some challenges, dull knives, flimsy plastic cutting boards and certainly no mandolin in sight, but it can push creativity and force one to look for outside inspiration, which in our case was very literal.
The little house was on a small plot of land where chickens grazed and was home to a wide variety of plant life. We rolled up our sleeves and did a little backyard foraging. Our salad dressing included grape juice straight from the vine and local honey from the owner’s apiary that he had left as a gift. The herb sauce that garnished our vegetables included fresh almonds plucked from the tree.
In the midsummer Algarvian dusk, we feasted on grilled sardines, steamed clams, grilled Mediterranean vegetables, stewed greens, simple green salad and fresh bread. A meal and a trip that will be remembered beyond far beyond any of the coast’s Michelin starred restaurants.
If you should be so inspired on your next holiday to do a little cooking here are some tips and simple
The two housewives have a passionate love for gardening and bestow their love and appreciation towards their gardens. In the twentieth century, gardening was advocated as beneficial to one’s life and family. In the New England Quarterly, the journal, “Gardening as ‘Women’s Culture’ in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Short Fiction,” states,“The time women spent in
While camping is generally an inexpensive way to spend some time outdoors, the simple meals that follow will can help campers stay to a very minimal budget. It is important for beginner campers to realize that there are many simple meals that can be made without purchasing specialized camping cookware (which can be very expensive!). If you don't have any cookware that can be used over an open fire, check out your local thrift stores for simple cookware that can be used. A frying pan (cast iron is preferable) and pot for boiling water is enough cookware for most camping trips. There are also many foods that can be cooked in aluminum foil alone without the use of any other cookware. Develop meals around the materials that you have and foods that you like to assure an inexpensive trip. Here are some cheap and easy to make meal ideas to get you started. Pancakes make a cheap and easy camping breakfast. A plastic drinking cup with a snap on lid is great for mixing the batter (by shaking the sealed cup) and pouring onto a pan. Instant rice that is made from boiling water is another inexpensive meal starter. Either eaten alone or with meat and vegetables, instant rice is filling and very cheap. Other foods made from boiling or hot water that are inexpensive and can be the basis for cheap camping meals include Ramen Noodles, oatmeal, and instant potatoes. The campfire baked potato is one food that is cheap and easy to make while
On Mango Street, a family with a pet monkey moved to Kentucky and the children in the neighborhood take over the garden behind their house, the Monkey Garden. The garden was beautiful and filled with gigantic sunflowers, bees, peach trees, roses, pears, and apple tress. It was an exciting and magical place for Esperanza and her friends to go to. They enjoyed looking at all the exciting plants and animals in the spring. But no one took care of the garden and kept it lively, it had taken over itself. It became a place where old, unwanted cars were dumped. Esperanza and her friends still continued visit the taken over garden because they were intrigued by the way that things seemed to disappear; “as if the garden itself ate them, or, as if with
"The Native American Cookbook Recipes From Native American Tribes," offers a large collection of recipes from and inspired by Native Americans. More than just a cookbook, it is a trip into history. The book seems like a personal journey for Mullins back his heritage as a Cherokee. This book offers time-proven favorites, inventive new ideas and contemporary twists on Native cuisine.
“…soon we had a vegie garden and chickens. The garage was divided into three rooms, one the lounge, then the kitchen, and a little room with just enough room for two beds for the kids. No running water, we had to get that from a pump just a couple of km away. No proper toilet, just a bucket, no bathroom, a babybath was all we
There is a little farm-house that had beds, tables, chairs, and it’s different living quarters. There is a small apple orchard with special fencing around it to keep the elk and other surrounding wildlife, from eating all the apples. There is a barn, blacksmith shop, gardens with real food growing in them, plows, a chicken house, and a pig pen. The blacksmith shop is still working, but unfortunately we arrived when there wasn’t anyone in there. The gardens had all kinds of fruits and vegetables growing there. Even some I’ve never even heard of! There were strawberries, potatoes, green beans, corn, squash, and many more. The barn had stalls where they kept and fed their livestock and a hay loft where they may have stored grain and hay for the winter. They also had a meat house to store any meat they had. There was also a woodshed where they stored any wood that wasn’t being used in the fireplace or blacksmith shop. They also had a spring house that used irrigation to keep any meat or dairy cold. Another interesting piece of architecture was the corn crib, where the corn was shucked and used for eating or dried out for grain, but mostly dried out and used for grain and corn
Lying west of Spain and East of the North Atlantic Ocean is a small country no bigger than the state of Indiana (World Factbook). Portugal, this mistakenly insignificant land, quickly made an impression on European exploration beginning in the early thirteenth century. It was not long before neighboring areas looked to this successful country for tactics concerning discovery. But exactly how did this small piece of land with few inhabitants manage to stand above its competition for quite some time? Portuguese motives, leaders, tactics, and innovations must be further examined in order to fully comprehend just how the Portuguese dominated early trade and exploration. Due to these three aspects, Portugal became the country that all
Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, held an important role in Portuguese discovery. Its Age of Discovery began in the mid 1400s when Portuguese monarchs from Lisbon wished to reach India without the Venetian “stranglehold.” Princes such as Henry the Navigator supported multiple expeditions to conquer land and discover new trade routes. From his sponsorship, Portugal gained new territories from the Arab empire, and they invented a new method of voyage: the caravel. The caravel was a marvel of the Age of Exploration, for it allowed quick maneuver and speed. Later on, monarchs would send skilled sailors such as Bartolomeo Dias and Vasco da Gama who would find South America, the African continent (which brought the African slave trade to the New World),
Fresh from the farmers’ markets and filled with amazing tastes, our products never disappoint. Here at Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes we specialize in fresh salads, soups, pasta and desserts. Our salads combine the freshest variety of fruits, vegetables and salad condiments. We refresh our menus’ featured items monthly by combining tastes, aromas and recipes. The menu includes many salads, up to eight soup choices, muffins and a small pasta section. For desert we will spoil you with our choices of fruits, puddings and ice cream flavors.
What better way is there to motivate children to eat their greens than a children’s book? As a mother, Anna Marie Watkins had faced the universal challenge of making children eat their vegetables. And as a grandmother, she feels concerned about her grandchildren’s health. To help parents promote healthy eating among their children, she published The Magical Garden (Outskirts Press, 2016).
Have you found a recipe that your whole family loves? Got any tricks to get the kids involved? We would love to hear about them. If you only new to the program check out our favorite family friendly recipes
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City the painting “Joan of Arc” by Jules Bastien-Lepage hangs in the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Gallery. This Piece is rather large and was done with oil paint on canvas, its dimensions being approximately eight feet tall with a width of ten feet. When walking toward Bastien-Lapage’s painting, it’s size and realism grabs one’s attention, and then holds it while this scene of Joan of Arc seems to take place right before one’s eyes.
Elliot also shared to Plate Home that his cookbook also contains some interesting ingredients pairings as he wants to teach readers how to make luxurious and expensive looking dishes from something "cheap and easily available" ingredients.
I had violent, grass-stained war games with my neighborhood friends, while my mother worked in her small vegetable garden among the honeybees, and watched things grow. An ever-present warming smell of knishes and hot dogs permeated around every inch of my block as the nearby concession pumped a constant flow of fresh food to hungry little leaguers and their families. Looking up, the summer sky looked like an Easter egg God had dipped in blue dye.
The rustic chicken coop was lively with 16 little chickens. Fresh air and garden fertilizer filled the coop. All day the chickens play and nibble on their meals, laying little eggs in their cozy nests. Inside the coop creative spiders knit crafty and beautiful webs, while dogs and cats walk around and watch the adventurous birds wander. Memories flow back at the sight of childhood bikes and toys. Through the building the sound of rustling leaves and chickens clucking softly becomes a soothing sound.