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What is it? Would I like it?
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I love food from Madeira.
For breakfast our hotel buffet's choices included what we in England call French toast, toast with a thick eggy batter which sinks in. We were offered strawberry jam or chocolate sauce, like on waffles or pancakes. In addition the fruit bar included grapes and bananas. You see vineyards up and down the terraced hillsides. (Plus grapefruit, prunes, porridge, kiwi fruit, pineapples, melon and more.)
Plus the usual boiled eggs, scrambled egg, baked beans, bacon, small frankfurter type sausages. sliced cheese, cucumber and salads.
Madeira Style Steak
The dinner buffet included steaks which cooked on a huge skewer in an oven and on the place were high, like small oranges, with a hole in the middle. A local restaurant served the same at the table on the skewer. Like kebab but fist size pieces.
Madeira Cake
The desserts one evening included Madeira cake, a kind of dark honey cake.
Table Wine
We were offered glasses of sparkling wine, made in Portugal. Mateus Rose is still available, but now you can also get the equivalent of sparkling wine, like Prosecco.
Supermarkets have stocks of local Madeira wine, which is fortified wine - more alcohol than the usual wine, strong, like spirits.
Other souvenirs to take home to the family, see next post.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer.
What is it? Would I like it?
Answers
I love food from Madeira.
For breakfast our hotel buffet's choices included what we in England call French toast, toast with a thick eggy batter which sinks in. We were offered strawberry jam or chocolate sauce, like on waffles or pancakes. In addition the fruit bar included grapes and bananas. You see vineyards up and down the terraced hillsides. (Plus grapefruit, prunes, porridge, kiwi fruit, pineapples, melon and more.)
Plus the usual boiled eggs, scrambled egg, baked beans, bacon, small frankfurter type sausages. sliced cheese, cucumber and salads.
Madeira Style Steak
The dinner buffet included steaks which cooked on a huge skewer in an oven and on the place were high, like small oranges, with a hole in the middle. A local restaurant served the same at the table on the skewer. Like kebab but fist size pieces.
Madeira Cake
The desserts one evening included Madeira cake, a kind of dark honey cake.
Table Wine
We were offered glasses of sparkling wine, made in Portugal. Mateus Rose is still available, but now you can also get the equivalent of sparkling wine, like Prosecco.
Supermarkets have stocks of local Madeira wine, which is fortified wine - more alcohol than the usual wine, strong, like spirits.
Other souvenirs to take home to the family, see next post.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer.
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