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Açorda
Açorda is a traditional Portuguese dish composed of cubed or sliced stale bread with garlic, coriander, and poached eggs. It is a type of bread soup, although some variants have a consistency closer to that of a porridge. The version served in Alentejo, açorda à Alentejana, is a classic of the region's cuisine. History Source: One of the first designations of the term ''açorda'' is found in 16th-century playwright Gil Vicente's ''Farsa dos Almocreves'': “''Tendes uma voz tão gorda/ que parece alifante/ depois de farto de açorda''”. (Roughly: You have such a big voice/ that it sounds like an elephant/ after too much bread soup.) The dish's origins are as a poverty food, intended to prevent waste by using leftover bread, that evolved into a classic of Portuguese and particularly Alentejan cuisine. Ingredients and variants The dish is traditionally made with pao Alentejano. Throughout Portugal there are multiple variants of garlic and cilantro bread soup; the ...
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Açorda is a traditional Portuguese cuisine, Portuguese dish composed of cubed or sliced stale bread with garlic, coriander, and poached eggs. It is a type of bread soup, although some variants have a consistency closer to that of a porridge. The version served in Alentejo Region, Alentejo, açorda à Alentejana, is a classic of the region's cuisine. History Source: One of the first designations of the term ''açorda'' is found in 16th-century playwright Gil Vicente's ''Farsa dos Almocreves'': “''Tendes uma voz tão gorda/ que parece alifante/ depois de farto de açorda''”. (Roughly: You have such a big voice/ that it sounds like an elephant/ after too much bread soup.) The dish's origins are as a Famine food, poverty food, intended to prevent waste by using leftover bread, that evolved into a classic of Portuguese and particularly Alentejan cuisine. Ingredients and variants The dish is traditionally made with pao Alentejano. Throughout Portugal there are multiple var ...
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Bread Soup
Bread soup is a simple soup that mainly consists of bread, usually staling, stale bread. Variations exist in many countries, and it is often eaten during Lent. Both brown bread, brown and white bread may be used. The basis for bread soup is traditionally either meat soup or vegetable broth. Less often it is made with fish broth. To prepare the dish, the bread is either cut into pieces and put directly into the broth, or it is cooked with onions and spices in a broth and then Purée, pureed. Some versions add bacon, egg and cream, others liver sausage or blood sausage. A common version of the dish is prepared from the broth remaining from the steeping of sausage during home butchering of pigs. The soup is then traditionally seasoned with marjoram. An Italian variation, ''millefanti'', also uses egg and Parmesan, Parmesan cheese. Some fine variations contain wine. Other more rustic versions contain malt or beer. Brewis Brewis is a type of bread soup associated with the cuisine ...
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Pao Alentejano
Pão Alentejano or Alentejo bread is a traditional wheat bread of Portugal's Alentejo region. History The bread was traditionally produced in homes, with local women taking their dough for baking in communal ovens, or by small bakeries. Alentejo is a historical major producer of wheat for Portugal (and previously for Rome, which introduced the crop to the area), and during the period of Arab colonization the bread became well-known throughout the country. In the 20th century industrial producers started to bread to sell under the name; these often do not use traditional recipes or techniques and contain additional ingredients such as preservatives. According to '' Visao'', the bread is "the basis of food in Alentejo". According to ''Hola'', "all Portuguese recognize it as one of the best readsin the country". Ingredients and preparation Traditionally the bread contains only wheat flour, yeast or leftover bread dough (which acts as a type of sourdough starter), salt, and w ...
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Bread Soup
Bread soup is a simple soup that mainly consists of bread, usually staling, stale bread. Variations exist in many countries, and it is often eaten during Lent. Both brown bread, brown and white bread may be used. The basis for bread soup is traditionally either meat soup or vegetable broth. Less often it is made with fish broth. To prepare the dish, the bread is either cut into pieces and put directly into the broth, or it is cooked with onions and spices in a broth and then Purée, pureed. Some versions add bacon, egg and cream, others liver sausage or blood sausage. A common version of the dish is prepared from the broth remaining from the steeping of sausage during home butchering of pigs. The soup is then traditionally seasoned with marjoram. An Italian variation, ''millefanti'', also uses egg and Parmesan, Parmesan cheese. Some fine variations contain wine. Other more rustic versions contain malt or beer. Brewis Brewis is a type of bread soup associated with the cuisine ...
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Poached Eggs
A poached egg is an egg that has been cooked outside the shell by poaching (or sometimes steaming). This method of preparation can yield more delicately cooked eggs than higher temperature methods such as boiling. Poached eggs can be found in several dishes. Preparation The egg is cracked into a cup or bowl of any size, and then gently slid into a pan of water at approximately and cooked until the egg white has mostly solidified, but the yolk remains soft. The ideal poached egg has a runny yolk, with a hardening crust and no raw white remaining. In countries that mandate universal salmonella vaccination for hens, eating eggs with a runny yolk is considered safe. Broken into the water at the poaching temperature, the white will cling to the yolk, resulting in cooked egg white and runny yolk. A chicken egg contains some egg white that may disperse into the poaching liquid and cook into an undesirable foam. To prevent this, the egg can be strained before cooking to remove the t ...
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Alentejo
Alentejo ( , , ) is a geographical, historical, and cultural region of south–central and southern Portugal. In Portuguese, its name means "beyond the Tagus" (). Alentejo includes the regions of Alto Alentejo Province, Alto Alentejo and Baixo Alentejo Province, Baixo Alentejo. It corresponds to the districts of District of Beja, Beja, District of Évora, Évora, District of Portalegre, Portalegre, and Alentejo Litoral. Its main cities are Évora, Beja, Portugal, Beja, Sines, Serpa, Estremoz, Elvas, and Portalegre, Portugal, Portalegre. It has borders with Beira Baixa Province, Beira Baixa in the north, with Spain (Andalucia and Extremadura) in the east, Algarve in the south, and the Atlantic Ocean, Ribatejo, and Estremadura Province (historical), Estremadura in the west. Alentejo is a region known for its traditional polyphonic singing groups, similar to those found in Tuscany, Corsica, and elsewhere. History In the 19th century, the comarca of the Alentejo became the Al ...
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Steep (technique)
Steeping is the soaking of an organic solid, such as leaves, in a liquid (usually water) to extract flavours or to soften it. The specific process of teas being prepared for drinking by leaving the leaves in heated water to release the flavour and nutrients is known as steeping. Herbal teas may be prepared by decoction, infusion, or maceration. Some solids are soaked to remove an ingredient, such as salt, where the solute is not the desired product. Corn One example is the steeping of corn (or maize), part of the milling process. As described by the US Corn Refiners Association, harvested kernels of corn are cleaned and then steeped in water at a temperature of for 30 to 40 hours. In the process their moisture content rises from 15% to 45% and their volume more than doubles. The gluten bonds in the corn are weakened and starch is released. The corn is then ground to break free the germ and other components, and the water used (steepwater), which has absorbed various nutrien ...
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Macanese Cuisine
Macanese cuisine ( zh, 澳門土生葡菜, ) is mainly influenced by Chinese cuisine, especially Cantonese cuisine and European cuisine, predominantly Portuguese cuisine and influences from Southeast Asia and the Lusophone world, due to Macau's past as a Portuguese colony and long history of being an international tourist gambling centre. It is an early example of a fusion cuisine and dates to the 16th century. Dishes ''Minchi'', egg tarts, pork chop buns, ginger milk and almond cakes are some of the region's most common delicacies. Common cooking methods make use of various spices such as turmeric, coconut milk, and cinnamon to give dishes an extra kick of aroma and enhancement of taste. Many routinely consumed dishes in Macau belong to a subclass ( Heungshan) of Cantonese cuisine. Many Macanese dishes resulted from the spice blends that the wives of Portuguese sailors used in an attempt to replicate European dishes with local Chinese ingredients and seasonings. Typically, ...
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Codfish
Cod (: cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus '' Gadus'', belonging to the family Gadidae. Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and one species that belongs to genus ''Gadus'' is commonly not called cod ( Alaska pollock, ''Gadus chalcogrammus''). The two most common species of cod are the Atlantic cod (''Gadus morhua''), which lives in the colder waters and deeper sea regions throughout the North Atlantic, and the Pacific cod (''Gadus macrocephalus''), which is found in both eastern and western regions of the northern Pacific. ''Gadus morhua'' was named by Linnaeus in 1758. (However, ''G. morhua callarias'', a low-salinity, nonmigratory race restricted to parts of the Baltic, was originally described as ''Gadus callarias'' by Linnaeus.) Cod as food is popular in several parts of the world. It has a mild flavour and a dense, flaky, white flesh. Cod livers are processed to make cod liver oil, a common source of vitamin A ...
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SBS Food
SBS Food (formerly Food Network) is an Australian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). The channel airs programs about food and cooking, from cultures around the world. History SBS first revealed it would launch a channel dedicated to food on 30 September 2015, following the Australian Government's decision to not permit the public broadcaster to increase the amount of primetime advertising it is allowed to broadcast. It was Australia's first and at the time only free-to-air channel to be dedicated exclusively to food-related programming. It is broadcast 24 hours a day on channel 33, and all programs aired on the channel are also available to stream on SBS on Demand. The channel began broadcasting as Food Network on 17 November 2015 at 1 pm Time in Australia, AEDST, replacing a simulcast of SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. The channel initially operated under a license from Discovery, Inc., Discovery Inc., the opera ...
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Serious Eats
Serious Eats is a website and blog focused on food enthusiasts, created by food critic and author Ed Levine. A Serious Eats book was published by Levine in 2011. Serious Eats was acquired by Fexy Media in 2015 and then by Dotdash in late 2020. Content The site consists of general food features as well as recipes, home cooking advice, and equipment reviews. The site is notable for launching the career of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, whose column "The Food Lab" was adapted into a James Beard award-winning cookbook of the same name. Lopez-Alt's writing was highly regarded among amateur cooks for its rigorous approach to cooking and recreating cultural food icons, such as the ShackBurger and Chick-fil-a, in the home kitchen. Critical reception In 2008, Serious Eats was ranked #17 on ''Time'' magazine's list of the 50 Best Websites. Serious Eats was the recipient of two James Beard Foundation awards in 2010 for Best Food Blog and Best Video Webcast. See also * List of websites about foo ...
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