In a Portuguese Kitchen Be Prepared...

Oven Roasted Bacalhau with Lemon

January in a Portuguese kitchen with the stove on for 3 hours baking and getting lunch ready means you must be prepared for one thing: to freeze your butt off. Be sure to have a hat on your head and a sweater of some sort to cover your arms or you will be sure to shiver off any extra holiday padding that you acquired over December. Go outside though and you have to remove at least one of those extra pieces of clothing if not both.

The First Day of the First Week of the First Month

A New Rose

January 1st, 2012. I love the first day of a new year. It feels like the beginning of things, much like when a new flower is about to bloom we can choose to start from scratch.