Portugal Day 2008 pictures

But here's what you came for: the food booths!  With only 3 Portuguese restaurants in California, here's your only chance to have delicious Portuguese food this year.  And cheap, too!  Hope you got here early; it's a one day event, and the booths start running out of some items at 1:30pm.

We'll start with the traditional bacalao casserole: potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, olives and salt cod slow-cooked together -- only $6, with delicious potato bread.

Kris isn't into bacalao, so she has a roasted pork sandwich instead ($5).

Since this is our one chance this year, we'll load up, this time with grilled sardines ... a huge plate of them with pepper sauce, potatoes and more bread for only $8.

Finally, we want some of Portugal's terrific sweet baking.  On the left is sweet bread (Massa Sovada) with orange, and on the right is a donut (malasada).  We liked the massa so much, we bought a whole loaf ($4).  It made fantastic french toast.

Mark your calendar for the Saturday nearest June 10 next year!