GeniB

I get the Odiaxe(s) bread ,or the Monchiques The joy apart from the fact it's delicious is that it doesn't keep for 5 or 6 weeks in your pantry. It's gone in a day..

SaffyRosie

Dear GeniB

Maybe I should have worded my post slightly better. What I meant was foodstuffs you can get here in the UK that you can't get in Portugal. I am a very good cook and cook dishes from all over the world: Turkish, Jewish, French, Chinese, Vietnamese, British, Thai, Spanish, Italian, Lebanese etc etc. We are very much looking forward to Portuguese food (which I have sampled on trips to Lisbon) and cooking with the local produce. I know that they will be times when we crave non Portuguese food and if I know that's it's difficult to source certain cuisines ingredients (eg Sriracha or Shinkiang vinegar, Sichuan peppers) I will bring them with me.

I do NOT use oxo cubes or heat up ready meals. I make my own stock.

liveaboard

Actually, I freeze the bread and then toast it as needed.
Not nearly as nice as fresh, but the reality is I'm not going to get to the bakery every day, and I only eat a few slices.

macliam

Ahh, the bread. Even the most miserable cafe has bread to die for - and forget butter, it's not necessary on fresh bread. (I have now been disowned by my Ma and any famly at home )

In my local Pingo Doce they used to have tangerine juice at 99c a litre ..... yum. Then it disappeared, to be replaced by Sunny Delight in the chiller cabinet - WTF??? But then, in this land of coffee and oranges, so many hotels serve plastic joice and roasted barley at breakfast

GeniB

Hi Saffy Don't be offended I 'm afraid your post did not come across the way you may have wanted it to. Your cuisine is obviously very sophisticated. I am not sure then that we could help you with such a shopping list.(hardly everyday ingredients) Again something only you can find out when you arrive

GeniB

It sometimes pays to ask macliam.. We got served disgusting wishy washy coffee at a five star hotel in Lisbon .When I gently complained to the manager he said he thought we were American? Why that was an explanation I don't know. However he took off and came back with two steaming cups of good Portuguese coffee. I bet the real juice is out there too.

MrBife

No need - all available here ...

Historic links with Macau (Portuguese) mean a long history of trading and much of the import and European distribution of speciality foods such as you buy in the UK is based in Portugal.

Your examples ...

Produtos - Glood

http://www.socilink.com/ (Chinkiang in Portuguese) - near the bottom of the page

http://www.spicebox.pt/#!product/prd...nta-de-sichuan but many local supermarkets have that - they grow well in the Portuguese climate too !

MrBife

The Portuguese have been known to grow the occasional grape and the seeds apparently get processed here and used for oil

Lots of health outlets sell it + local mail order

Óleo de Semente de Uva para Massagem | Óleos de Massagem - BestMassage.pt

And others

ouriquejan

From the weekly white van yesterday, I bought some lovely and very fresh radish, mushrooms, leeks, new potatoes, tomatoes, peas and coriander. They also have fruit.

Sadly, you never know what they're going to bring each week, so it's pot luck

Also collected my fresh rolls and cheese from the bar.

Heaven

liveaboard

I didn't mean massage oil, but for cooking.
It's excellent for frying.
I found some in a health food shop here at a health food shop price.
Waitrose UK sells it at 5 gbp per liter. It may well be made in Portugal, but I haven't found it for sale here as a reasonable cost retail foodstuff.

moneypenny20

I didn't realise you could still get Sunny D, I thought it had been banned years ago. When it first came out I bought a small carton, gave it to my daughter who was about 5 at the time. Her face swelled up, lumps and bumps all over her body. The rest of the carton went in the bin. Evil shite.

macliam

Oh I have and I do, but the results aren't always positive. Most places don't actually serve coffee at breakfast but roasted barley, or a mixture, so that it doesn't upset the elderly and infirm, and people accept it. Likewise, real juice is the exception - because it's normally a case of fresh-squeezed or chemical soup, no in-between (which is why the Pingo Doce tangerine juice was so unusual). Aldi & Lidl orange juice is imported from Spain... which says loads.

BEVS

I didn't even know what that was at all MP. I had to google & kept getting a straw hat.

I use the beef oxo cubes like my Mum did before me. Don't hate me. I do also make my own stock.
Sometimes Mum gave us a hot cup of oxo and a slice or two of bread for our tea. I have fond memories of that.
My Dad was a chef but I don't ever remember him cooking at all at home when we were young. Later on I don't ever remember him using an oxo .

Ah! The memories an oxo cube brings back.

Fredbargate

A flask of OXO for a cold day out in an open boat