Travel
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F Your Diet (Portugal)!
The original egg custard that swept the globe, the Pasteis De Belem from Pasteis De Belem. The jazzed-up version with a sprinkling of cinnamon and powdered sugar. Delicious either way. The predecessor to the malasada? A Portuguese Jesuita, a triangular flaky pastry filled with frangipane cream and sometimes times topped with sliced almonds and powdered… Continue reading
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The Seefood Diet…
(9.3.2022) The objective of our final day in Portugal was of the gluttonous nature. But first a few things to check off. … (4.2.2025) I can not recall how long it has been since I made a genuine effort to pick this blog back up. Life has really put me through the wringer these last… Continue reading
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A Sintripetal Force…
In my younger and, lets say, more virile days, I began writing the first installment in a gay short story romance between a Filipino-American and a Turkish oil-wrestler. But as like so many things in life, that would-be masterpiece was left by the wayside. Something of that time lingered and was rekindled while mapping out… Continue reading
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Discovering the discoverers…
Many who have visited are familiar with the “melting pot” that is Hawaii–a base of Native Hawaiians, a sprinkle of Japanese, a dash of Chinese, a pinch of Filipinos. But little is known about the field laborers that came from the Madeira Islands and the Azores off the coast of northwest Africa, the Portuguese. Even… Continue reading
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What’s in a (place) name…
The outline of our next trip to Europe in 2017 was based on a selfish fantasy. I know very little about my mother’s side of the family. I hazard that this obscurity is intentional; maybe some memories are too painful to recall. What little I have gleaned over the years I have woven into a… Continue reading
