Day 10 - Lisbon Food Tour

This morning Heidi successfully navigated us to the Miradouro Sao Pedro de Alcantara park, where we met up with our tour guide, Diogo.

The first stop of the tour included a few different tastings.  We started with an octopus salad.  This was very good.  Reminds me of ceviche, but the octopus was cooked outside of the salad and was very tender.

Next was a cod fish dish prepared with potatoes and mixed with an egg.  This one was also quite good. Even our non potato and egg people, enjoyed it.

The final tasting at this stop was a sausage.  Diogo made us guess what meat it was made from.  Mary was the winner.  It was made of chicken and a garlic paste. The texture was a bit odd, but the taste was okay.  The back story to this sausage is that the Jewish community came up with this recipe to hide the fact that they were Jewish during the Spanish Inquisition, by making it seem that they were eating pork.

Speaking of pork, the second stop was a pork sandwich on some very fresh bread with a bit of mustard. It also included a beer tasting.  I didn't drink the beer, some of the other girls thought this particular brand had a bit of a sweeter tase.  The sandwich itself was good. 

The third stop started with bread rolls and goat cheese, then followed by chorizo, beef and cod cakes.

The final tasting at this stop was sardines.  Hard no for me and most of the broads.

The fourth stop was for pastel de nada. This is an egg custard tart pastry, good, but super rich tasting.  Ours was served with cinnamon and powdered sugar sprinkled over the top.

The final stop was for cherry liquor.  Not a hit with this group.

Also saw some cool things as we walked around on the food tour.  This is one of 4 funiculars in Lisbon.  They will take you down and most importantly up.  Sadly, we continued to flipping walk. 😢

Below are examples of the appropriate size pour for sparkling wine.  Please feel free to determine on your own which one is correct.  No judgement here.

We continued to stroll through the area and did a bit of shopping as we made our way back towards the apartment.  I would like to say this was a quick process, it wasn't, but even though it felt like another death march, it was still fun, I think.  I'll let you know when I can feel my legs and feet.

Of course we included a stop at a rooftop bar.  

We also went back to have dinner, on a path, in a park.  That was a first.

One of the humorous parts of our time in Lisbon has been the house rules sign provided in our apartment.  Please see bullet number 3.  Fairly certain there is a good chance that we will be at a minimum fined.  This is NOT a quiet group.

Tomorrow we are off to Sintra.  Please pray for us as early reports state that there will be a lot of uphill walking.  Why oh why didn't we come here in our 20's???

Boa Noite! (good night)