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Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-12-2007 20:09

Hi

I created this thread for Christmas photos 2007 . The idea was given by my friend (and ours. :P) Chris Raper. Great idea! :P

Use that to share photo for this event. Only 25th day! :P

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-12-2007 20:13

it can be about food!! :) hmm.. nham nham nham :D
about gifts... just about flies, of course! :D
and anything else concerning the xmas. ;)

Posted by Andre on 24-12-2007 22:26

About love too :o? Hot and steamy under the mistletoe?

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-12-2007 23:05

:D lol

Posted by Andre on 24-12-2007 23:43

Have a nice slip into the new year my friend! ;)

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 25-12-2007 12:27

thanks, Andre. For you too! :) One day we must go to Castelo Rodrigo. ;)

Posted by Andre on 25-12-2007 12:39

And back to Paul do Boquilobo too! :)

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 25-12-2007 12:45

Paul do Boquilobo... if only we go to the local where we spotted the Trichopoda pennipes. :P

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 26-12-2007 00:44

Here... comes the first photo!

Your tongue will be full of saliva when you see this photo below :P

Well, this was my dish for the lunch time. And... yeah.. it is the second dish! :P Before I ate a very good octopus with onion/agrion/oil/vinegar and some more spices :P And there was a very nice "marisco" soup made by my brother (a very good cooker! Better than French cookers :P)

legend for the dish :) and more. eheh

1 - wine from Reguengos - vinho da zona de Reguengos
2 - Champagne Raposeira (I think!, lol)
3 - Condest?vel OLIVE oil - azeite Condest?vel - very, very good! I forgot the "OLIVE" word! LOL
4 - salt Vatel - sal :P lol
5 - spicy roast goat-kid - CABRITO assado no forno e com especiarias. ;)
6 - roasted potato - batata assada
7 - rice with kidneys and much more visceral parts of goat-kid. :P - ARROZ de mi?dos! (literally in English would be KIDS' RICE! lol)
8 - surprise... try to realize what is it... :)

the spices we use are gengibre, "noz moscada", malagueta, pepper, "pimentos", and some more. ;)

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 26-12-2007 01:05

Posted by Susan R Walter on 07-01-2008 21:02

#10

Yummy - looks totally delicious Jorge. We had roast duck, but I didn't take a photo, so I can't share. Pears poached in red wine for dessert.

#8 looks like spinach, but is that too obvious to be right?

My photo is of me with my present.

Posted by Guenter on 08-01-2008 09:49

#11

8 maybe yuyu? (marine algae)

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 08-01-2008 12:32

#12

Both wrong. I will tell what is it very soon. But you can keep trying to guess.

Susan, now with an entomological net in one hand you can quickly catch many flies.

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 08-01-2008 12:33

Posted by crex on 08-01-2008 14:38

#13

jorgemotalmeida wrote:... Susan, now with an entomological net in one hand you can quickly catch many flies.

There are nets for automobiles, but the flies get squished. Maybe a bicycle net would work!? B)

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 08-01-2008 15:10

#14

There is only one way to know. Susan, then tell us if it works.

Posted by Susan R Walter on 09-01-2008 21:04

#15

Heavens, you guys :o I will be enough of a menace on the roads without flailing a net about!:D

Posted by Tony T on 11-01-2008 15:12

#16

Susan R Walter wrote:

My photo is of me with my present.

I can't quite remember what all that green "hair" is under the wheels. If you had tried this shot in Atlantic Canada this Christmas you would see only the handlebars and above. But this week the Pollenia were flying - but still no green "hair".

Posted by Zeegers on 11-01-2008 15:30

#17

Susan, you are not really in danger.
Ian Walker of the University of Bath published a very impressive study in 2006 showing that:
* cyclists with helmets get hit more by cars than cyclists without
* females with long hair (or in his case, a male with a wig) get less hid by cars.

So keep the ponytail

[I'm not joking, I will provide the reference if someone is interested]

Theo
( in professional life bicycle advocate in the Netherlands]