Pedro

No reason. I just looked up on google what the English name for the Portuguese “pescada” is, and it came up as hake. I suppose codfish and cod are the same thing, but I always think of codfish for some reason. All the cod you see in my food or all over Portugal is preserved salted, like in Italy or Croacia. Bacalhau in Portuguese or Baccala in Italian. An entire fish, when you buy it whole looks like this, big ones being 3kg to 6kg like this:

Hake fillets, marinated in mild and lemon and gently fried in egg and flour batter, with cold “russian” salad. My mum’s cooking, the sort of stuff I used to hate as a kid but now love.

Did you know that the Portuguese invented frying in batter? And then took it to Japan, who made a big thing of it. After a few centuries some twat came up with frying candy bars.

He kicks ass! Amazing to see.

Brocolli pasta, my favourite pasta. This was very much awakened with fresh chillies straight from the plant in my garden, very soft and young and still almost seedless. The trick is to allow the broccolli to get a little charred before adding any other ingredient to the pan.

Codfish with chickpeas, with plenty of coriander. Very much a southern Portuguese/Lisbon thing.

Very cool. Don’t think you would want to do that on a big bike, even with good tires, though?

Turmeric yellow

I think it looks ok, as far as cruisers without a vtwin go. Looks like it’s not trying hard to copy Harleys.

How did your family like you interrupting movie night to give them the finger?

I agree, Bob, he needs something to sharpen his internet crayons on

Today’s leftover roast, just perfect.

Let’s agree that you’re the most picky eater we both know !

I completely disagree

I see orange is the color to have for Scooters, then.

Roasted chicken legs with potatoes: Very nice simple salad and steak dinner: Comfort food, Sofia's leftover frozen vegetable curry with freshly made mint rice. There's now a very authentic Pakistani restaurant near my place. I love it. Chicken bahari (the red one) and mutton curry. @Sofia's Pork roast, Alentejo style

For a cruiser they can make a 750 vtwin, but for the Africa Twin and Transalp they can’t? Although those specs don’t really scream high tech.

You need a rainbow too!

Very cool to see her progress. I’m surprised you don’t have anything similar closer to home, though. Shadow and Sunshine? Did you use to be a hippie?

They are when those 200k for a 150k house doesn’t buy then what they think is a 150k house to move to.

That's outright disrespectful and properly endangering towards women.

Thank you very much for your report Ian! The internet would be a shitty place without you!

Must have not been made public. I searched a little but can’t seem to find it here either.