Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The Gallery: 11.11.11

The theme on this week's Gallery is 11.11.11

Here in Portugal on the 11.11.11 is Sao Martinho Day, where traditional you eat roasted chestnuts and drink a special kind of wine called Jeropiga or Agua de Pe (foot water).  
We went to our local bar and had our chestnuts, but not the jeropiga, which was home made and did smell of feet!! so we passed on that.



Also being a huge jackpot, we had to play the lotto.  Unfortunately we did not win, oh well, always next time!


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12 comments:

  1. @lunchboxworldNovember 16, 2011 at 8:44 AM

    sounds like great fun! Love the Lottery ticket idea, capturing the date and all, shame you didn't win!

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  2. AnonymousNovember 16, 2011 at 9:46 AM

    Sounds like fun, bummer you didn't win the lottery though, maybe next time ;) x

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  3. Mummy's SpaceNovember 16, 2011 at 10:53 AM

    Ooooh I love chestnuts! Shame about the lottery - fingers crossed next time :)

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  4. multiplemummyNovember 16, 2011 at 1:09 PM

    Unlucky! I have never tried a chestnut...what do they taste like?

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  5. JennyNovember 16, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    Oh Shane about the lottery ticket not being lucky!! And I have never tried a chestnut that fresh before, only from a tin in my homemade stuffing x

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  6. bluebirdsunshineNovember 16, 2011 at 3:01 PM

    Love the smell of roast chestnuts! So Christmassy. Foot water sounds a little scary though ;-)

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  7. Leadership LearningNovember 16, 2011 at 4:48 PM

    OMG foot water LOL, that sounds horrific. Hope the chestnuts were good though.

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  8. Actually Mummy...November 16, 2011 at 7:30 PM

    Can you imagine how poetic that would have been, to win the lottery on a date like that? I wonder who did. Love the idea of roasted chestnuts with red wine mmmmmmm

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  9. ChristineNovember 16, 2011 at 9:26 PM

    Thanks for the comments, I have to say Im not a big chestnut fan, but my husband and children are. They taste kind of sweet and have a mild 'nutty' flavour but I find them quite dry, which is why I dont like them. But they are SO popular here, everywhere you look they are selling them and you get vendors roasting them on the street until springtime I think.

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  10. Rebecca EnglishNovember 16, 2011 at 10:35 PM

    That's really interesting. Don't think I'd want to drink anything called foot water either!

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  11. Alli MarshallNovember 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM

    Foot water sounds awful - I'm sure I'd pass every time!

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  12. UnknownNovember 20, 2011 at 5:30 PM

    Foot water??? Not the best way to sell it is it! lol! Sounds like an interesting drink though!

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