Sunday was Recovery Day, after a late night and enormous Thanksgiving Dinner. I’m sure we were still digesting it, but nobody leaves my in-laws’ without being fed. That would a crime. A “light” lunch of fish was just the thing we needed after gorging ourselves on turkey and desserts the previous evening.
We’ve given away bags and bags of chestnuts over the past week, but the family is still working through their supply. This Friday I’m looking forward to experiencing my very first magusto, and from what I can gather it’s an autumn bonfire involving chestnuts and traditional Portuguese alcoholic beverages called jeropiga and água-pé, both of which are new to me… so I’m going to have to pace myself! All in the name of research, of course.
November 8, 2015
Album: Portugal [Autumn 2015]
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