https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8 Portugal en-us 2018-11-28 14:15:10 UTC 2018-11-28 14:32:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ornamenttree.png titorayonpo1 https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308781366 Cod (bacalhau) - is definitely one of the most popular and well-known dishes of Portuguese gastronomy.]]> 2018-11-28 14:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308781366 titorayonpo1 https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308783480 The cod is dried in the sun and salted so that it is preserved, as was done in the old days, so it is kept for much longer outside the refrigerator in a pantry. There is a Portuguese saying that there are 365 different ways to cook bacalhau - one for each day of the year.]]> 2018-11-28 14:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308783480 titorayonpo1 https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308785068 This dish is served throughout Portugal, even at weddings, but the most popular comes from the Bairrada region of the small town of Mealhada. The most traditional method is to roast piglets with a weight between 6 to 8 kg, which have been bred with a diet of acorns. The meat is rubbed before cooking with garlic, pork fat, salt and pepper and then put on a skewer on the grill for about two hours, often in wood ovens, even with aromatic wood such as eucalyptus and vines. The result is a succulent and moist meat with crunchy skin.]]> 2018-11-28 14:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308785068 titorayonpo1 https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308787143 2018-11-28 14:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308787143 titorayonpo1 https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308787504 2018-11-28 14:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308787504 titorayonpo1 https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308788260 Bonfires on Christmas Eve: The burning of firewood or Christmas stumps is a tradition of remote roots, which represents the triumph of light over darkness. There is a belief that the bigger the trunk is and the longer its incineration lasts, the better the New Year harvest will be.]]> 2018-11-28 14:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308788260 titorayonpo1 https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308790018 2018-11-28 14:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308790018 titorayonpo1 https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308790880 It is customary to attend the Christmas Eve night at the Mass of the Rooster and close this celebration by kissing the feet of a figure of the Child Jesus. After the religious services people go out to burn the Christmas stump.]]> 2018-11-28 14:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308790880 titorayonpo1 https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308791809 2018-11-28 14:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/titorayonpo1/olp8bds8h3z8/wish/308791809