24 February 2010

Portuguese Menu Topics

After receiving a few comments about Portuguese Menu, I decided to write this post to explain to my readers the basis of this blog.
Portuguese Menu is a blog written by me: Mizé, a Portuguese living in Portugal who likes food and enjoys cooking. I´m not a professional, I´m just a mom who works full time in health but enjoys blogging. I have a few blogs about different topics, most of them personal blogs.
I decided to start Portuguese Menu to share some of the recipes I cook at home. I share my recipes and, many times, the cooking steps as well.
When I started this blog I was a student working part-time. Since April 2009, I´ve been working full time in the local hospital and since then my free time to blog was drastically reduced. Nowadays, I don´t update Portuguese Menu as much as I´d like to but each time I cook a recipe I haven´t posted here before, I take pictures of it to write a new post when I have the chance.
I decided to start a food blog in English about Portuguese food because this way I have a bigger audience and I´m able to share with the world some of my country´s food traditions. Once English isn´t my mother tongue, I sometimes have difficulties writing recipes, specially translating ingredients names and cooking procedures. I do my best to provide clear instructions and whenever I can I post pictures along with ingredients used in those recipes.
Portuguese measure system is Kilos and grams. Some of Portuguese Menu visitors are used to other metric systems but fortunately there are many weight converters available online.
Some visitors ask me questions and I try to answer all of them whenever possible. Although I´ve been having some difficulties managing all my blogs due to lack of time, I hope I can continue providing content for Portuguese Menu.

3 comments:

Diary From Africa said...

I love all your recipes, and I know how difficult it is being a Mum, to find the time to blog and photograph the recipes, post them etc ... so don't worry if you can't post often - when you do, we'll enjoy your recipes even more ! Keep well ...

Linda said...

I love your blog. Im a swedish, married to a portuguese man.
Your blog is the one i use the most for the times when i wanna cook pt food, i want real home cooking, what you make in everyday life.
thank you for a perfect and most helping blog :)

Unknown said...

Mizé, Fiquei contente de ter encontrado o teu blog. Eu tb tenho um, tenho varias recietas de comidinhas Portugueseas mas tb de toda a parte do mundo. Gostaria de ver se terias interesse em juntar-te a um grupo de facebook de uma tal Canadiana/portuguesa que esta afazer tudo por tentar divulgar a nossa comida. Podes ver. Vai ao facebook e procura A Portuguese Cook - The Series