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Algarve Events Feira Da Serra São Brás Alportel

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Algarve Tour Travel Guide, information and YouTube Videos and Photos of Historic Towns, National Monuments, Culture, Tradition and Handicraft, Fairs, Festivals and Events Local Históricoss of Portugal, Algarve, near the municipality of Loulé and next Querença

On the bridge between tradition and innovation. Feira da Serra (Mountain Hills Fair Event) of São Brás de Alportel

On the last weekend of July, São Brás de Alportel becomes the scene of a festival of food, crafts and entertainment, with the completion of the Feira da Serra, the event is already a reference in the country and a must see mandatory for those who live or visit the Algarve.
For three days, colors, skills and flavors of the mountain blend back in time, to our own roots, the stories made of traditions, legends and customs, which carve the stone with mastery, which are weaved in looms, which are painted on the screen, which bring in the corner and danced with soul.


The Feira da Serra (Mountain Fair Event) of São Brás de Alportel was born of a joint organization of the Association SPOT with the City in the summer of 1993. Sierra Cauldron (A Serra do Caldeirão) down to São Brás de Alportel, in its wealth, human and cultural heritage, visible for 3 days that are filled with food, folklore, crafts and live entertainment. This takes in approximately one hundred craftsmen from all over the Algarve and Baixo Alentejo.
 
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The Serra do Caldeirão hills traditional skills

In the village, you can purchase parts of the most genuine handicrafts made with materials of the region, with hands that know the mastery of time, and enjoy the great products the Caldeirão such as regional sweets, honey, brandy, liqueurs, homemade ice cream, bread, walnut, onion or seed, an endless world of aromas, flavors and textures.

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The kingdom of taste

Good food is also present at the Fair, at the Meeting Flavors of Serra do Caldeirão, with 7 dining types restaurant and 1 Portuguese Tavern, where you can enjoy the aromas and tastes of traditional Algarve and Alentejo gastronomy. Accept the invitation and be sure to taste the dishes of pork, the Xarém, chicpea dinner, soups, migas and many other snacks

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Knowledge and affairs of other times.

The site of the Handycrafts gives us a tour of the past. Live, you can watch the making of other times: the grinding of wheat, flax spinning, the work and the palm, and esparto, repairing footwear ... the traditional occupations which are a valuable cultural treasure that must be preserved passage of voracious journey of the time

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The Arts corner

In the culture's Square, there are arts and knowledge. The Algarve artists bring their works and live show his talent

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The world of make-believe

This is the area's favorite of the small. An area of children's entertainment, ready for the younger visitors, with a world of games and activities awaiting them. In this magic place, under the guidance of education professionals, children can play and learn, with many activities

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Passion for horses

In Riding, horses and riders will delight all lovers of equestrian art. Every day, different times of animation. Visitors can even make their "tipping" rodeo, which is what we call the riding baptism, for those who want to try to ride these wonderful animals

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Open door to nature

The animals have a very special place in Feira da Serra. The Animals site, our meeting the with nature, we observe and learn about some species of the region.

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The bridge between the past and the future of the cork

This is the ideal place to meet this precious raw material of nature, inviting a journey through time from the past to the future of the cork industry: from the beginning of the century, when the cork sector played a key role in economic progress of São Brás de Alportel parish who raise county in 1914, to the most innovative projects, the new challenges of Cork, in its many applications.

In this space, you can visit the manual production of cork stoppers and more interesting on the cork industry, discover new trends in cork fashion, and enjoy live, the more curious Cork Arts.



The Cork site also hosts an area dedicated to ROUTE OF CORK, an interesting thematic route that awaits your curiosity

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Carob Industry, potential and challenges

The 12s area of the Fair came in the 2007 edition, dedicated to this mysterious fruit of the Algarve: carob. Mysterious and numerous applications, the Carob site reveals the nature, tradition, industry, the challenges and potential of one of the most important Algarve industrial sectors.
Over time, the locust had many uses, having started off as a yardstick, then moving on, when using its gum, used as thickener, stabilizer, emulsifier, with multiple uses in the food, pharmaceutical, textile and cosmetics, for the use pulp, where you are sweet and prepare numerous products, and even the use of flour obtained by grinding and subsequent roasting ...
In the
site Locust site we can know why, because of its the dietary characteristics, the carob is the chocolate of the hills

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Soil management

Between tradition and innovation, this is an area devoted to agriculture, traditional art of land preparation, who lives now in future challenges. Here, you can purchase useful agricultural tools or get to know some innovative projects in the area of organic farming



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Loulé Retaurant Week Festival Algarve Portugal Gastronomy Events Festivals

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Loulé RestaurantWeek

Loulé prepares to receive a week of haute cuisine - the RestaurantWeek
Cappucino of green soup with crispy chouriço (traditional tipycal saussage), black pork cheeks with vegetables and sweet potatoes, ice cream with coriander and chili-pepper.
The Chef Martijn Carte, and more 28 other Carte to prove in the best restaurants in the municipality of Loulé.


RestaurantWeek is the name of the initiative that was born in the U.S. in 1992.
Today, all American cities have RestaurantWeek annually. In Portugal, the RestaurantWeek already exists in Lisbon and Oporto.
Now comes to Loulé, begins on April 22 and ends on May 2. The RestaurantWeek with 29 restaurants to choose from.
The idea is to give everyone the chance to enjoy fine dining by a unit value of 20 euros (drinks not included), being sure that each meal, one euro goes to the Diocese of Madeira.
The event was officially presented on Tuesday in one of the participating restaurants, L'Olive, with the  Chef Martijn Carte, in the Vila Sol Algarve, Quarteira, in the presence of Jose Borralho responsible for undertaking proactive event, the Tryp Network, and the alderman of the House of Loulé, Joaquim Guerreiro.
After the success achieved in Lisbon and Porto, the Municipality of Loulé has contacted the Tryp Network to carry out the initiative in this county. Agreement signed. Joaquim Guerreiro argues that Loulé "has some of the best restaurants in the Algarve and Portugal, and it is very important to recognize this food."

It will be a week of haute cuisine based on typical products of the Algarve, as well as agricultural products produced by the region, and the fish caught around here.

José Borralho did point out that this initiative is not a form of balances in the restoration of high quality, as you say have seen so construed
"These restaurants have no such need. Join because they like the project and supportive of your hand, "he said.

In this first edition, the expectations are not very high, but still advanced the second councilman from the City Council, "there are already good signs, because there are already reservations to be made, despite the RestaurantWeek does not have great promotion."

Lunch or dinner at one of 29 participating restaurants require reservations to develop, which can only be made through the site (www.loule-restaurantweek.com) website where information is made available on the restaurants and your letters

Discover Algarve Traveling in Tour on the Nature

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Algarve Travel Guide Tour beautiful Luxurious hidden places in the Algarve. Enjoy the Algarve Traveling in The Hills, go to Serran do Caleirão and visit Querença and the outskirts of the parish of Querença in the municipality of Loulé and Taste The Flavors The Peace and The Tranquility of The Real Algarve: Information and photos of beautiful Luxurious hidden places in the Algarve Portugal

Enjoying The Peace and Tranquility of The Nature in a Traveling Tour in The Serra do Caldeirão

We entered the Sierra's Caldron, enter the "other" Algarve, the Algarve hidden, the genuine people, traditional arts, great food. The landscape changes its color as we continue the ride. The green forests of eucalyptus, oak and pine gives way to orange orchard cultivated fields of wheat and barley. Among the hills hear running streams, blackbirds and other birds singing, combined with the perfume of flowers and wild shrubs that transport us to an almost paradise, a single contact with nature. Here and there we contact with the people in their daily labors: a drawer of cork, a shepherd with his flock of goats and ouvelhas, a miller, a woman working at the loom, and others caring for the gardens. The fruit is natural and delicious, oranges, grapes, loquat fruit, figs, melons, watermelons. pomegranates and many other fruits shining and perfuming the fields, in a scenario Pardisíaco.


This goes through the narrow stone streets, admire the fireplaces, the kilns, the sloping roofs, whitewashed walls, the courtyards, benches, balconies and find monuments that bring the ancient times. We went to museums and live the stories of old. Rediscover the arts and techniques that still exist in local crafts. A walk leads us to the tranquility and fresh air carries the scent of heather, rosemary and weed. To satisfy all our senses, you just need to prove the cheese, wine, brandy, sausages, bread and donut.



We can walk around, ride an horse, ride a bike and swim in warm waters, listening to the birds and enjoying the aroma of wild flowers that surround us in an atmosphere of magic surrounded by the nature.

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Algarve travel To Querença Saussages Festival (Festa das Chouriças de Querença)

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Once again, Algarve travel to Querença in one more Saussages Festival (Festa das Chouriças de Querença).

In order to comply with tradition, the Parish of Querença, in conjunction with the Festival committee of the parish, once again organized the Festival of Chouriças Querença, also known as the Feast of St. Louis, the patron saint of animals.

Traditional Gastronomy of the Algarve in Querença Church Square.



This year, the traditional festival of Chouriças in honor of St. Louis (São Luís) will take place in the newly renovated Querença Church Square, January 25, jointly organized by the Festival committee of the Parish and the Parish of Querença with support of the House of the People of Querença Mnicipal and the House of Loulé.

It is recalled that the Church Square Querença has undergone rehabilitation works under the program for the revitalization of villages in the Algarve, having won a new image with new entertainment venues and leisure.

The party starts at 11 am, when visitors are greeted in the traditional village with traditional food, along with homemade bread and homemade wine produced in the parish of Querença, by the Algarve  traditional method.

In the early afternoon at 14:30 hours, religious celebrations begin with the Celebratin in the Church which is followed by a procession with the image of San Luis (São Luís). The procession makes the connection between the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (Nossa Senhora da Assunção) and the Chapel of Our Lady of the Foot of the Cross (Nossa Senhora do Pé da Cruz), covering the main streets of the village.

The highest point of the festival takes place in the Church Square, with the usual sausage and other offers knock down. The sausages that the population offers to St. Louis (São Luís) are used on a "buffet" organized by the Festival committee and the surpluses are auctioned in conjunction with other offers.

Auction ends around 18:30 hours, immediately giving way to a fireworks-fireworks.

This year, the entertainment program of the Feast of Chouriças Querença are coupled with the realization of a photographic exhibition of street and a theater.

The photographic exhibition is devoted to a century-old tradition of the Algarve countryside, with the theme "The killing of the Pig: A well-known and famous tradition of the Algarve mountains."

At 21 hours operates the Culture House of Loulé Theatre Group (Grupo de Teatro Casa da Cultura de Loulé), with the number "Euro Festival Cançanita Louletana in the Reception Hall of the People's House Querença.

Start Date :24-01-2010 End Date :24-01-2010 Location: Church Square
Time: around 11:00
Location: Querença - Loulé - Algarve - Portugal
Organizer: Parish of Querença and Festivity Commission of the Parish
Contacts: T. +351 289 422 337

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Gastronomy Festivities of Algarve

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The art of celebrating good food, as you can see in the fotos

Land rich cuisine and enjoyed the gala of the Algarve makes his cooking skills and find the most varied reasons to celebrate food and conviviality.

The time of gastronomic festival opens with the Feast of Chouriças in Querença, Loulé council. Traditionally in honor of Saint Louis, the saint patron of the animals, this festival includes an auction of sausages, a procession and evidence of traditional food.

March is the month to celebrate the Traditional Smoked Serra de Monchique, a fair that discloses the artisanal sausage mountain and is accompanied by a gastronomy fair.

The proximity of Easter justifies the Folar (tradicional delicious home made cake) festivitie. In Querença, the festival includes a religious procession and a fair of Folar and other traditional products, like spirits, homemade bread, liquors, sausages and traditional gastronomy. In São Marcos da Serra, the Fair folares has other products such as sausages, spirits fro, serranos cakes and homemade bread.

In May, Monchique back the celebrations with the Feast of M, which gave the local products such as arbutus, honey and cake pan, made with honey and corn.

June is the month of October of Portuguese gastronomy, in Lagoa, where restaurants from north to south of Portugal gives to know the specialties of their regions. It is also the month of Festivities of Boliqueime, authentic gastronomy fair in the form of pubs that reproduce the homes of old. In July, commemorates the Beer Festival in Silves, the Fair of Ham, in Lagos, and Fair / Sweet Art Competition in Lagos, where the participants carry out "masterpieces" with almonds, eggs and soft - yarn eggs.


August can be passed from party to party, snack at snack. The topics range from seafood in Faro and Olhão, the Algarve pubs in Estômbar, sardines, in Portimão, Quarteira and Albufeira, the snacks in Querença and pear; candies, dried fruits and regional drinks in Faro.

October brings the Almancil Gastronomy Fortnight, where the various local restaurants, Aljezur and the Festival of Sweet Potato and barnacles. Closing the years are the gastronomic Magustos where, in November, the nuts are queens.

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Almond kisses Monte das Figueiras Style

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Category: Cakes

Name: Almond
kisses Monte das Figueiras Style

Ingredients (For 20 kisses): 250 grams of sugar; 125 grams of almonds; 6 egg yolks; 1 white part of the egg

Preparation: For with almond and smash up to be mass.
Cover the sugar with water, stir to melt and let it boil until it reaches the point of strong cord (1).
Mix in almonds, will be stirring on low heat until on or retires.
Once warm, add the yolks of eggs, previously beaten with the clear. Turn heat to low heat, stirring constantly until the dough dry.
Cut up again, and when warm, they tend to balls with your fingers smeared in butter which will also featuring a tray greased with butter. Go to the smart oven until lightly browning.
On cooling, they get in corrugated paper cases.

(1) This point is after a few minutes of the sugar is boiling when it forms a strong cord between the fingers, without breaking.


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Cod Fish Monte das Figueiras Style

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Category: Fish

Name: Cod Fish Monte das Figueiras Style

Ingredients (Serves 4): 600 grams of dried cod, 800 grams of potatoes 2 dl olive oil, 150 grs of onions, 3 cloves of garlic, 50 grams flour, 1 bunch of parsley, salt to taste

Preparation: Cut the salted and dried cod into squares about 5 cm. Soak in cold water, with an advance of 24 hours.
Clean the cod scales and bones and put the drain.
In a pan, apart, put the olive oil and light the fire to warm.
Pass the cod for flour and let sear on both sides.

After blond, remove to a platter.
Chop the garlic and cut the onion into rings.
Sauté garlic and onion in olive where the fried cod and lie about it. Sprinkle with chopped parsley.
In a pan, the party, bake the potatoes with the skin in water and a little salt.
Once cooked, drain the water and let cool.
Peel the potatoes, cut into rings and thick, in a frying pan, heat the olive oil.
Serve around the cod.

Hint: Use preferably with a cod thickness of about 3 cm.

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Goat Monte das Figueiras Style

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Category: Meat

Name: Goat Monte das Figueiras Style

Ingredients: 1 / 2 kg of Young Goat (leg or hand) cut to pieces; potato; garlic; pepper; Laurel; salt; salsa; onion; butter; 


Preparation:  The day before, make a paste with crushed garlic, pepper, bay leaves and salt.
Barre kid.
Take the roast in the oven in a pan greased with butter, and topped with onion, parsley and potato pieces.
Bakes in about 25 minutes.

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Farm Fishes Monte das Figueiras Style

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Name: Farm Fishes Monte das Figueiras Style

Ingredients: 1 kg of green beans, 2 or 3 cloves of garlic, 6 eggs, 1 medium onion, salt, olive oil and 200 grams of flour.

Preparation: Cut the pods into thin strips so that they are about 5 inches long and cook the beans with water and salt and leave for half the cooking time.
Carry out a batter with flour, a little water, the previously well beaten eggs, onion and garlic chopped.
After all well stirred, add the beans and stir so that it is wrapped around the batter.
Will be taking the preparation with a spoonful of soup is placed in a pan with olive oil for frying.

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Lightweight Milk Cream Monte das Figueiras Style

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Category: Desserts

Name: Lightweight Milk
Cream Monte das Figueiras Style

Ingredients: 1 liter of milk, 6 tablespoons flour, 1 lemon peel, 200 g of sugar, 4 eggs and toasted flaked almonds.

Preparation: In a pan place the milk, egg yolks, flour and lemon.
Stir well until all the yolks become undone.
It takes the heat and stir continuously until it begins to thicken.
Apart whip the egg whites.
In another pan place the sugar with three drops of water to make caramel and then joins the cream stirring constantly to discard and not be hard.
Take from heat and add the egg by wrapping them with a wooden spoon from the bottom up. Pour the cream on a platter and decorate with toasted almonds and chipped over.
Serve cold.

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Nuts Cake of Querença Monte das Figueiras Style

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Category: Desserts

Name:
Nuts Cake of Querença Monte das Figueiras Style

Ingredients for the dough: 6 eggs, 125 gr of margarine, 2 cups sugar, 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, zest of 1 lemon.
Ingredients for cream: 2 cups sugar, 2 cups of hot milk, 1 cup of nuts.

Preparation: To make the cream burns sugar, pour the milk and joins eventually the cup of nuts.
To make the cake hits the butter with the sugar, place the egg yolks and add to the cream, leave to cool slightly.
They join the egg whites and then the flour.
Go to bake about 1 hour.
Finally take another dose of cream and pour over the still warm cake.

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Snails Algarve Stylish

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Category: Entries
Name: Snails
Algarve Stylish

Ingredients: Oregano, pennyroyal, garlic, bay leaves, lemon, thymus, salt, pepper, a glass of brandy from the region of arbutus and rosemary

Preparation: After thoroughly washed in several waters, put in a pot with water and all ingredients listed above, leaving it to cook on low heat for 1 hour.

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Fresh Honey Cake of Querença Monte das Figueiras Style

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Name: Fresh Honey Cake of Querença Monte das Figueiras Style

Ingredients: 10 eggs, 300 grams of sugar, 3 half eggshells of olive oil, 3 tablespoons honey, 2 tablespoons cinnamon, 1 teaspoon of yeast, 2 tablespoons of flour.

Preparation: Blend all ingredients and takes it in the oven in a greased with lard.
It takes to bake for 45 minutes.


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Green beans Soup Querença Style

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Category: Soups

Name: Soup Pods (beans) Monte das Figueiras de Querença Style

Ingredients: Green beans, olive oil, potatoes, carrots, onion, garlic, salt and pumpkin.

Preparation: Put up in the fire a pot with water, three or four peeled potatoes.
Mix in a bit of pumpkin, onion, a clove of garlic, a little salt and olive oil.
Put the baking and then passes it all the potato masher.
Prepare the green beans cut into small pieces and washed once.
Place everything in the pot with the food already grated.
Place the spices and let it cook slowly on low heat.


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Tomato Soup Stylish Querença

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Name: Tomato Soup stylish Monte das Figuiras de Querença Querença

Ingredients (serves for 4 people): 500 g of tomato, 1 medium onion, 1 clove garlic, 1 dl olive oil, 4 eggs, 250 gr of bread before, salt, water.

Preparation: Fry the chopped onion and garlic in a pan with oil.
Then add to the stew tomatoes without skin or seeds, season with salt to taste and allowed to establish well.
Mix in a little water and let it boil.
Poach the eggs in the broth and remove to a dish after cooking.

Slice the bread into thin slices, add to the broth and let it boil for a few minutes. Finally, remove the pan from the heat, place the tomato soup boiled in pelangana and adorn yourself with poached eggs.

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Grilled Oysters Algarve Style

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Name: Grilled Oysters

Ingredients: (for 4 people):
1 kg of oysters, 2 lemons

Preparation: Wash well the shells of oysters.
This raises oysters on the grill with hot coals, letting the oysters open enough but not expecting to open fully as they may become very dry.
Take up the embers of oysters and serve with lemon.


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Homemade Pudding Querença Stylish

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Name: Homemade Pudding Monte das Figueiras de Querença Style
Stylish

Ingredients: 12 eggs, 1 liter of milk, a packet of biscuits Mary Toast, 350 g of sugar, zest of one large lemon, 1 cup of port wine.

Preparation: Stir the eggs with sugar, add the lemon zest, port wine and 1 crushed crackers.
It is the homemade caramel (sugar in point), caramelizes to form and still warm, line up the way whole wafers.
Pour in the cream and let it bake in water bath for 45 minutes.


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Sweet Potato Cake

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Name: Sweet Potato
Cake

Ingredients: 500 gr sugar, 500 grams of flour, 500 grams of raw sweet potato, peeled and grated, 8 eggs, 1 tablespoon baking powder, cinnamon to taste

Preparation: Beat the eggs well with sugar, then joins the flour, which had previously been mixed baking powder and cinnamon, and finally mix the grated sweet potato.
Bake in a greased margarine and sprinkled with flour.

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Mussel stylish Querença

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Name: Mussel stylish Querença
Ingredients: 2 kg of mussels, 8 cloves garlic, 2 sprigs cilantro, olive oil 5 dl, 2 dl white wine or beer, 1 lemon.

Preparation: Wash the mussels well and remove it the beard.
They break up the 8 garlic Thoth and place in a pot along with 5 ml olive oil, leaving the garlic brown.
Then join the mussels and goes stir until the mussels open.
Join after the coriander, wine and allow to determine.
Once established there is the ready on a platter and sprinkle with lemon juice.


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Small Octopus Querença Way

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Category: Dishes
Name: Polvinho with olive

Ingredients: Small octopus, onion, olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper to taste

Preparation: They clean up very well polvinhos and bake in water and salt.
Once cooked cut them into small pieces and place in a container where it is chopped onion, olive oil in abundance, vinegar, salt and pepper.
Stir everything and is ready to serve.

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Magniwork Energy internet scam



Internet fraudsters are raking in thousands of dollars a day with an elaborate scam selling magnetic perpetual motion machines that are claimed to produce infinite free energy.

Since spring this year an operation called Magniwork has been selling a $50 DIY guide to building a perpetual motion device at home. On their web-site the fraudsters claim the materials are available in any local hardware store for less than $100. One estimate puts sales of the guide as high as 5,000 copies a month, making the scam worth up to $3m a year.

The claims for Magniwork are advanced via an extensive Google advertising campaign, and a network of blogs, web-sites and reviews endorsing the product. They are given further credibility by a clip of film from Sky News Australia about plans for a similar product made by a legitimate if optimistic research company called Lutec. Lutec patented its technology in 19 countries in 1999, but the product has still not seen the light of day. Off-Grid has discovered that the clip is over 8 years old.

Perpetual motion machine

Magniwork which describes its product as ‘a magnetic power generator’ claims to have invented a revolutionary off-grid power source that uses magnets to “power itself and create energy by itself, without requiring solar energy, heat, water, coal or any kind of resource.” The web-site promises the device will generate perpetual energy which will “fully power your home for free.”

However even the idea of such a device is dismissed by trained physicists. “The little explanation they give on their website makes no sense to me,” said Gunnar Pruessner, a lecturer in physics at Imperial College London. “For starters it breaks with all we know about quantum physics since Dirac, which says that we cannot tap into zero point fluctuations or virtual particles.”

Priceless IP

He observed that if the claims were true, they would mark the biggest advance in science ever. “It would bring a world-wide socio-economic revolution with incalculable political consequences. So you have to ask why are they scuzzing around selling their priceless IP (intellectual property) for a few dollars?”

Made in Macedonia

The site gives no way of contacting Magniwork -other than to order the guide. But its legal disclaimer reveals that despite the .com web address which suggests a US-based company, Magniwork is in fact located in Macedonia, a tiny republic on the northern border of Greece in Europe. “This Agreement shall all be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Macedonia applicable to agreements made and to be performed in Macedonia,” it reads. It has similarly proved difficult to identify the individuals behind the scheme. But one researcher claims to have written to the site’s web-master who referred in his reply to a man simply called “Igor”, the manual’s publisher.

Kernel of truth

Angry customers admit that the guide does contain kernels of truth. “Some of the suggestions in the e-book can reduce your home power consumption. For example, checking for air leaks, have better home insulation, servicing your air-conditioning unit or heate etc,”wrote one. But is it essentially amateurish and misleading, they say. “The whole “document” is 57 pages long and looks like something a kid in high school put together. The final “generator” is basically a magnet that is 2″ high sitting on a turntable that is 4″ high! They claim that its output is 24.5 Watts! That is 1/100th of what my house uses when the AC is on. It wouldn’t put out enough power to light up a standard light bulb,“ wrote another angry blogger. Fraudulent

Alternative energy expert Sterling D. Allan founder of The New Energy Congress has examined Magniwork’s claims. “Most of the 50+ page manual contains energy conservation tips that are based on well-established principles,” he said. But he points out that plans for the device are freely available elsewhere, they are based on other people’s work and he claims to have tried to contact people offering testimonials, without success. “The wording on their site still gives the reader the idea that the plans will result in a working free energy device but that is not the case. Such representation is fraud,” he concluded.

Although highly implausible, the idea of somehow harvesting magnetic power has intrigued scientists for over a century. It was first suggested by pioneering physicist Nicola Tesla in the nineteenth century. Australian company Lutec is still trying to perfect such a device. And U.S based based Magnetic Power Inc, headed by Mark Goldes, has claimed to be on the verge of launching a ‘Magnetic Power Module’ for at least six years. There is no suggestion that either Lutec or MPI are part of the scam.