Best restaurants Santa Maria Cape Verde // bästa restaurangerna santa maria kap verde // mejores restaurantes santa maria cabo verde

First thing: Do not book an all inclusive hotels when going to Cape Verde, these islands offer so much fresh sea food and why go so far when you only want to end up within the walls of an hotel?

There are quite many restaurants in Santa Maria, and you can see all the one's we have rated on tripadvisor HERE

One this to be aware of as an tourist in Cape Verde, is that there is a risk to get sick from water and food. Therefor we have sincerely provided our personal warning for one restaurant that was top rated on tripadvisor, where we actually got sick from the poor sanity in the restaurant kitchen. However, we can recommend two restaurants where we felt safe and the both the service and food was very high quality

For drinks, we recommend the local beer Strela (light, refreshing beer) and the white Cha wine from one of the Cape Verde island Fogo.

The top 2 restaurants are Atlantis and Barracuda.

Atlantis has wonderful sea food, fresh lobsters (provided by their own fisherman!), great service, nice locations on the beach, what more can we ask for? This place is also perfect for lunch since they have also lighter options available. This restaurant actually gave the absolute best service that we could experience on the island.

Barracuda is also located on the beach, the atmosphere is slightly more loud during the nights than Atlantis, but still very nice. The owners is a couple where the wife is the head chef and the husband manage the restaurant service. Very friendly, the chef wife comes out among the guests to ask for feedback, we enjoyed every visit!

The Cha wine is available as red and white wine, and our favourite was absolutely the white. We also learned that the white comes in two types, and the original/old one that you see on the picture was the favourite

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Things to do Cape Verde, island of Sal

To be honest Sal is a very relaxing island, you will get easily get around and see much of the island in less than one day in a Jeep. It's not much vegetation and it can look a little bit like the moon sometimes, but there are some interesting places that we would like to recommend. Apart form discovering the island by car you can rent bikes, go hiking with a guide, ride horse on the beach, kite and wind surf and much more.

We recommend that you go by Jeep, since you will have to drive off road. Use your common sense and turn around if you dont trust the path you are trying to go. Throughout Sal, as soon as you leave the main road, there are basically no signs, and there is no maps covering the hundreds and hundreds of small off road tracks, don't get lost, especially not in an area without cell phone reception :)

Pedra de Lume is a village just by the capital Espargos. The village is tiny, and it's not much to see, except for the old salt ponds. They are located in an inactive vulcano and they started to produce salt in the 18th century but are now inactive. However you can go there to have a look, go swinning in the very salty water that will make you float very easily and buy some salt for cooking or for body treatments.

It's quite difficult to find the way, but when you see a white and blue church you are supposed to leave the road and drive passed the church and continue behind it, off road.

 

The old salt mines are located in an inactive vulcano

 

You can basically pic up the salt from the ground

The salt lake where you can take a refreshing swim

Salts for sale

 

 

Salt cristals

 

 

Since this is very close to Espargos, the capital of Sal. We recommend that you quickly drive through it, you can always stop for a lunch and some photos if you want to since it is a nice and colorful city.

Buracona and the Blue Eye. West of Espargos you will find Burancona. When you leave the roads (ask the locals since this one is also diffcult to find) you will have approx 5 km to drive off road. It's a nice bit of coast with a natural pool where you can swin if you want to, and if you are lucky with season and sun, you can spot the "Blue Eye". 

From Buracona we did exactly opposite to what the car rental recommended us, and instead of driving back the normal way back we continued north off road for some adventures. The landscape is facinating and you can spot Monte Grande which is approx 400 meters in altitude. We where driving on the many small tracks, trying to head for Espargos, we ended up in the townships outside Espargos and finally reach the main road without any trouble.

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Trip guide Cape Verde // reseguide Kap Verde // guia de turistas cabo verde

We are back from Cape Verde! It was a fantastic relaxing trip to the island Sal with a lot of beach life and dinners of lobster and other mixed sea food. Cape Verde is a group of islands and next time we will make a round trip to the other islands as well that all offers different climates and things to do and see.

Sal is however a fairly dry island, not much vegetation and its very popular among kite surfers for the constant winds. The weather in march was very good, 23-25 degrees during the day and 20 during the night.

The people where very friendly, and it felt safe everywhere we went. Even when we got got off road in the desert with our jeep and ended up in very ruff townships when trying to reach a decent road, it felt quite safe.

Trip guide Cape Verde (click the links):
Best Restautant Santa Maria Cape Verde
Santa Maria and the beaches
Pedra de Lume
Buracona and the Blue eye

Below are some snapshots of the highlights from our vacation.

 

Salt mines at Pedra de Lume

 

Lobster fresh from the sea

 

Fantastic endless beaches

 

Turtles comes to lay their eggs on the beaches of Sal

 

Beaches, beaches, beaches...

 

 Catch of the day

 

 

Buracona

 

Snapshot from Santa Maria

Swedish pancakes recipe // crepas suecas // pannkakor recept

 Traditionally Swedish people don't eat pancakes for brunch or breakfast , but for lunch or dinner. The pancakes are thin and can be mixed with any type of jam, whipped cream, milk or ice cream.

Actually we have one day a week which is dedicated to pancakes, which is Thursdays. If you go to have lunch at a traditional Swedish lunch place you will most probably find the option of pancakes and pea soup.

Luckily swedes eat more healthy nowadays and pancakes are just enjoyed every now and then.

Today I will give you my grandmothers recipe for pancakes, enjoy!

Mix the eggs, milk, flour and salt, the dough should be very thin. Heat a pan, with some fat such as butter, and poor a small amount (less than 1 dl / 0.4 cups) of the dough into the warm pan. Take the pan and tilt it so the dough can spread by itself. As you can see below the pancake should be very thin.

It will go very fast, turn it around when its golden brown and cook the other side (will take less time)

 

Put them folded in half on top of each other so they will stay warm until all are finished.

Then its time to eat! This time I took blueberries, blackberries and raspberry jam.

 

Spread your mix out on the pancake, I aslo put a small amount of milk on top of my pancake. But you can skip that or add whipped cream for extra indulgence ;)

 

Roll the pancake, and enjoy these thin delicious swedish pancakes!

Grandmas Recipe for Swedish pancakes

• 7 dl Milk (3 cups)
• 3-4 dl flour (1.3-1.7 cups)
• 3 eggs
• A pinch of salt

Avocado snack

Very hungry before dinner? Need something quick before or after the gym? Or are you longing for something sweet but want to eat something healthy instead?

I usually take an avocado, simply slice it in two, remove the stone and add some juice from a lime or lemon, and some salt. I eat it directly with a small spoon, it's so quick and tastes delicious!

 

seafood soup recipe // fisk och skalsjursoppa secept // SOPAS DE MARISCOS!!

Buenas Tardes a todos !!!!


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pues aquí les doy la receta del dia de  hoy
La famosa sopa de Mariscos a mi estilo  dice asi :

Ingredientes para 4 personas de sopa de marisco

1 union// gullök// cebolla, 1 red pepper// röd paprika // pimiento rojo, 3 garlic cloves // vitlöksklyftor // dientes de ajo, 4 tomatoes // tomater // tomates pera maduros, 50 centiliters olive oil // olivolja // aceite de oliva, 250 gr. legs of octupus // bläckfiskarm// patas de pulpo, 150 gr. jumbo shrimps // större räkor // langostinos, 150 gr. white fish file // vit fisk // filete de pescado blanco , 1/2 leek /purjolök // puerro, 2 leafs of laurel // lagerblad //hojas de laurel, parsley // persilja // perejil  , 2 big potatoes // stora potatisar // patatas grandes, 1/2 tablespoon pepper powder // paprikapulver//  de pimentón dulce, salt // salt // sal, pepper// peppar // pimienta. Croutons // krutonger // Dados de pan frito, para servir.

 

Elaboración de la sopa de marisco

Para hacer el caldo, calienta 1,5 litros de agua con el laurel, unas hojas de perejil, las cabezas y pieles de los langostinos (reservando los cuerpos), el puerro en trozos y el pulpo, bien lavado. Añade un poco de sal y deja cocer 30 minutos a fuego lento.

Mientras tanto prepara un sofrito con los ajos y la cebolla pelada y picados finos, salteando en una olla de fondo grueso con el aceite de oliva. Cuando estén tiernos añade los tomates en trozos y el pimiento rojo bien picado. Deja pochar 20 minutos a fuego medio, añadiendo una pizca de agua si se quedara seco.

Añade al final una pizca de pimentón dulce al sofrito y cubre con el caldo de pescado colado, reservando aparte el pulpo. Tritura con la batidora e incorpora las patatas peladas y en dados y el pulpo cortado en trozos pequeños. 

Deja cocer a fuego lento 15 minutos. Añade el pescado blanco y los langostinos reservados. Si quieres añade algunas gambas peladas congeladas, para que quede más sustancioso. Agrega unas hojas de perejil picadas y deja acabar la cocción unos 5-10 minutos, o hasta que las patatas queden muy tiernas.