Happy Easter, part 2

What a Easter weekend! After an amusing Saturday with my japanese class, I had a very long Easter Sunday... in the kitchen! eheh

This year I've decided to prepare a typical Easter lunch and invite some friends! We were a small group of 6, each one of us from a different country. And this is what I enjoy the most: to host, cook and show all the best from my culture to my friends.

I could go easy when preparing lunch, but I don't like easy. So I've decided to prepare starters, a fish course, followed by a meat course and end with dessert. eheheh
The fish course was the typical codfish, with mashed potatoes, cheese and mayonnaise (just for the gratin). This recipe is called Zé do Pipo Codfish (Bacalhau à Zé do Pipo). For the meat course I prepared a festival of pork meat, blood and potatoes, called Rojões.
Dessert was easier, because it was more cakes and pastries.

Good food needs good wine, so there was also good portuguese wine. White wine (vinho verde) for the fish, red wine for the meat.... and Porto for dessert! eheheh

It started well... but a roller-coaster of unexpected cooking events (it's a nice way to say loosing control) led me to put everything on the table on the wrong sequence! eheheh

We've started the meal with the meat course, then the starters, then the fish and finally the dessert! As usual, I spent most of the time in the kitchen... so the lunch became more like a long brunch! eheh

The important is at the end everyone had fun and enjoyed the food (as I prefer to think!) eheh

The worst came the next day, with a super huge pile of stuff to wash and clean! eheheh

Time to rest now, until the next event... and I "smell" more football coming soon ;-)