Saturday, 16 January 2010

Caldo de Marisco


It's Portuguese for "seafood stock cube" and I'm feeling a bit smug because we get it in Portugal - indeed even out here on Flores - but you don't get it in Britain. This was pointed out by a friend who eyed our Caldo de Marisco enviously when she was out here visiting a while back and took a few packets home with her. The subject came up again when we were staying with her during our recent sojourn in Scotland and she spotted the cubic metre of ham stock cubes which we were taking back because - smugness wearing off now - we don't get them in Portugal.

Perhaps we could start a "Stock Cube Swap Shop" and could we extend it out to other provisions as well because another thing we don't get here is corned beef? And brown sauce. And noodles and cous-cous while I think about it. Coleman's mustard as well. Blocks of parmesan cheese. Pine nuts. Horseradish sauce. How about a couple of frozen octopuses for a hamper of the above items?
                          
Is that Cheggers on the left?

4 comments:

Suze said...

Frozen octopi or is that octopuses? No deal as Noel would say. Back to multiple coloured stock shop.

Neil King said...

And you would know what Noel says how exactly, Suze?

Suze said...

Think I must have read it in a magazine. Obviously not because I watch that dreadful TV programme. Well I did once but I didn't understand it. Too tedious.

Neil King said...

I watched it once as well but didn't understand it either. I didn't hear anyone saying "No deal". Mind you maybe that was because I was watching "Noel's Christmas Cracker".