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| We start receiving guests as of May, 2 2009, but we take early bookings now! |
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Slow Food Cooking meals and the enjoyment of eating them is a passion with us. We offer our guests, in the summer months three times a week the opportunity to share a meal. Here you can enjoy good company and a few glasses of wine with us, either on the veranda or in our kitchen. We are firm believers in the virtues of good, honest food and we love preparing our meals with the fresh produce that is either grown in our own garden or produced locally. In short you can discover the origins of the term “Slow Food”. Cooking workshops, the Portuguese kitchen and wine tasting On registering, we can organise a weekly cooking workshop, sometimes combined with a wine or port tasting. In our traditional wood fired oven, we can make classic regional dishes such as the reputed “Leitao de Barraida” (weaner piglet) and “Cozido da Beira” (a braised meat dish) as well as other Portuguese culinary delights. Although the origins of the Portuguese Cuisine is influenced by many different countries, the traditional Portuguese meal is noted for the simplicity of it’s ingredients and the purity of it’s flavour and taste. Here chicken tastes as a chicken should and beef has a flavour that you thought had long vanished. Dine out or prepare it yourself In the immediate locale there are many good restaurants where you can eat for as little as 7 to 10 euros per main course. The apartments at the Quinta do Retiro each have a well appointed in- and outdoor kitchen where you can prepare your own meals. If you are camping in a tent, then you can make use of the kitchen facilities in Casa Mimosa. In periods of drought barbeques or open fires on the camping grounds are not allowed to be used because of the risk of bush fires. Our baker daily delivers fresh bread which you can order from the list in Casa Mimosa. |