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Catavino: Wine Blog Wednesday: Breakie and Wine - El Jefe asks us what wines go with breakfast foods

  • Oscar Quevedo · 11 months ago
    Vitor, as traditional Portuguese breakfast I would also include the Sopas de Cavalo Cansado (Tired Horse Soup). Very known and usual some decades ago, the Sopas de Cavalo Cansado were made with wine, sugar and soaked bread.

    Rural kids used to eat this every morning, based in the idea that this magic potion would strengthen the blood and would lead to a quicker growth. I never tasted it, maybe one day, when some wine bloggers come over!!
  • Dylan · 11 months ago
    Oscar, thanks for that regional dish recommendation. I'm really interested to try that for myself. Do you have a more specific recipe with instructions that you use? If not, I will do a traditional search of the internet for this traditional dish.

    Also, Justin's breakfast looked hearty enough for a lumberjack. Certainly an energy-packed start to the day.
  • Justin Roberts · 11 months ago
    Dylan. Everytime I see or hear the word lumberjack I can't help thinking of the Monty Python Lumberjack song!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clPYfaTvHT0
  • Oscar Quevedo · 11 months ago
    I know Vitor! In that time people didn't have so much food option as nowadays...

    Sorry to come some late Dylan. I've been investigating with some older people of my village, S. Joao da Pesqueira. It's very easy: a couple of slices of bread, some sugar and then warm wine over the bread. Try it Dylan, and let us know about your experience!!!

    Something also interesting that I found out is that women during breastfeed period used to eat Sopas de Cavalo Cansado because it would increase the quantity of milk...
  • Vitor Mendes · 11 months ago
    Óscar, you are correct... in fact the "sopa de cavalo cansado" was a great tradition, and the idea was to improve the "blood" quality! I dont see how this could hapend, but we both know that 40 years ago the saying was "one glass of wine gives work to a million people", did you know that?

    Abraço
  • Winesleuth · 11 months ago
    Who say's bacon & refried beans with toast are not "traditional "American? It was in my (Mexican-American) house when I was growing up - every Saturday morning with Lola Beltran belting out rancheros on the stereo...what childhood memories came flooding back...Thanks for the memories!
    ps. and now I just HAVE to find that rosado...
  • nursingpump · 9 months ago
    Yummy! I would love to have a go at these dishes!