SINGLES ARANJAMENTO:
An English-spoken workshop "cooking in a Portuguese way"
Many people want to do something in their holiday, and meet other people too. The Termas is an ideal place to combine those two things. Here you can laze the day away, talk with the other guests on the terrace, enjoy the nice weather and get acquainted with other people with the same interests as yourself. These weeks we are going to cook, fish, walk, visit a distillery of aguardente, and maybe even hunt.
Portugal always have been a agricultural society, and this rich farm-life you notice well in the kitchen. A lot of soups, a lot of vegetables, fish, home-grown chicken and pigs, and everything fresh.
We use products from our own garden, or of people of whom we know they don´t use artificial manure or toxics. Everything pure nature. We go to the "green" butcher, we buy the fish straight from the fisherman at the beach of Costa de Lavos. Vegetarians will not be forgotten: allthough it is not typically Portuguese, we have some experience with cooking a nice vegetarian meal!
This week is a combination of laze away the mornings; to go somewhere to taste the new wine or aguardente, to go to the market or go fishing; to enjoy massages or the water of the Termas, and later on, with a nice glass of wine, to cook a divine Portuguese meal.
In October, the season of the workshop, everything is there in a stunning abundance. And íf it coincidentally is not "of the season", we will have it in the freezer or in the store-room.
Solar Energy
You can make yourself familiar with "Solar Cooking", and the use of the haybox. Those are energy-saving methods. The solar cooking is using pure solar energy with a prism with reflective material, and in doing so, making a kind of stove. It can take a while before the food is cooking, and than you can keep it warm in the haybox, untill it is time for dinner.
You can take home all recipes you will cook, during this week, together with all the tips and skills and other acquaintance you obtained. The result of a cookingsession can look like this:
You stay in a hotelroom with private bathroom, or in a guestroom, with a choice of bathrooms downstairs in the bathhouse. The toilets of the guestrooms are upstairs, close to the rooms. A hotelroom is based on staying with two persons per room, a guestroom can be individual.
Here under you will find the programme and further conditions. The workshop will be organized twice:
02.10.2009 - 09.10.2009 and 23.10.2009 - 30.10.2009
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1st day arrival + getting acquainted with Portuguese tapas;
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2nd day be lazy + cook;
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3rd day to the local market in + cooking with the products bought on the market;
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4th day testing the new wine + cook with wine;
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5th day walking tour with picknick + cook;
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6th day to the beach Costa de Lavos (*) + cook with the fresh fish;
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7th day be lazy + cook farewelldinner;
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8th day departure.
(*) the fishermen depend on the tide, so we cannot say if this visit will take place in the morning or in the afternoon.
The group is maximum 24 persons, minimum 6.
Hotelroom (sleeps 2) € 450,-
Guestroom (single) € 399,-
Guestroom (sleeps 2) € 310,-
These weekprices are based on stay and fullboard. The transfers from and to the station (arrival and departure) are included. The outings to the market, to the wine-tasting, to the beach, are additional: € 10,- p.p.p.d. If you might want to go to Coimbra or another destination, we can help you arrange that.
Reservations
Please, contact us to know if the workshop will take place: info@termas-da-azenha.com .
We will form a group of minimum 6 participants, if there is too little interest, we will refund your deposit.
We ask a downpayment of 50% of the total price. Transfer to (IBAN) NL 57 PSTB000 13 45 751, Meio Gordo Lda., Rotterdam - Holland. Swift/Bic: PSTBNL21
Termas da Azenha - Ruq João Henriques Foja Oliveira - Vinha da Rainha - 3130-434 Soure Canteiros - E.M. 521 - GPS: 40º 4´49" N 8º 44´30" W
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OFICINA DE COZINHAS SOLARES
COM ALMOÇO SOLAR
Sábado, 02 de Maio 2009
9:00 - 15:00 uur
poupe energia e seja amigo do ambiente
Programa previsto
09h00 - Abertura
09h15 - Início da cocção dos alimentos para o jantar (pão, sopa, carne, peixe, sobremesa, café e chá)
09h30 - Evolução das cozinhas solares
11h15 - Utilização efectiva de cozinhas solares
Orador: Professor Celestino Ruivo (E. S. T. Universidade do Algarve)
12h00- Pausa para café, chá e bolo solar
12h30 - Sessão de construção de cozinhas de baixo custo
13h30 - Jantar solar
Esclarecimentos adicionais sobre a organização da oficina:
Termas da Azenha - Rua João Henriques Foja Oliveira - freguesia Vinha da Rainha - 3130-434 Soure - Canteiros - E.M. 521 GPS: 40º 4´49" N 8º 44´30" W
Esclarecimentos adicionais sobre cozinhas solares:
Prof. Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo; Escola Sup. Tecnologia-Universidade do Algarve
e-mail: cruivo@ualg.pt; Tel: 289 800 166/289 800 124/289 800 100