Panjim Nights

Goan Food Evening

Maybe its the fact that moving around the Algarve this summer has been so evocative of many places
I've been, and memories of places from decades ago. The bougainvilleas, red tiled roofs, whitewashed farm buildings and the sight of slightly feral looking happy pigs and donkeys shading themselves from the noon day sun. I could be talking about Goa, the other Portugal, where vestiges of Portuguese food still linger on in the menus and in the local recipes. So to end this Indian summer and to celebrate my lovely wife's birthday; a trip to old Goa.

Menu

Spiced Prawn, Paneer and Potato Pastries
Channa Chat Salad (with tamarind sauce)
Chicken /Paneer Xacuti and Rice
Fried Ladyfingers ( if available)
Troical fruit upside down cake
House Cocktail
Coffee
ALCOHOL: BYO We provide a house cocktail so bring your own beer /wine

Price: 20 Euros
Places limited
Bookings by Friday night
Time : 7.30 -8.00
 phone : 915 265 176
or email : lemontreesupperclub@gmail.com

Please not last minute cancellations

Oaxaca on Saturday night

Dear Friends and Patrons,
Oaxaca, the deep heart of Mexico, the home of the Maya, giver of food to the world. Avocado, tomato, Corn and chilly and so much else. When I discovered  that Chilly came from the new world, it shook me to my Indian gastronomic core. Indian food or Thai food in a time before Chilly! How much we have been gifted...
In homage to that (and my Mexican chilly collection thanks to my old friend Barry) we visit Mexico.

thanks to mexicanwave.com for the pic

Menu
Guacamole and fresh salsa with fried bread
Grilled corn and Ceviche salad
Black mole enchiladas
Tiramisu
Coffee and House cocktail.

Please book in advance by Friday evening.
For bookings please call
282 913741
or 915265 176
email: lemontreesupperclub@gmail.com

20 Euros

thanks

Rustam and Tam

Thai Express

Dear folks,
this Friday nights Thai night has already been pre-booked by a large party so we have no spaces.
(Didn't even get time to get the invite and menu out.....)
If you would like to book for Saturday night we will run an extra night for a party of 6 or more.

The menu by the way...
House Cocktail
Som Tam, (Thai Papaya salad)
 Fresh paneer and grilled chicken with peanut satay.
On the recommendation of a Thai friend from Bangkok we are going to do a dish she suggested
Massaman curry ( seafood or vegetable) accompanied by eggs in Tamarind sauce.
coconut cream custard  with fresh fruit.
coffee

as usual RSVP
time 7.30-8.00
cost 20 euros


bookings : lemontreesupperclub@gmail.com
282 913 741
or text 915 265 176


Warmest regards


Tam and Rustam

By Popular Request

Why resist ? Indian night it is. Time to roll out a few time honoured classics.
Papad and mango chutney
Vegetarian Samosas and pickled cucumbers
Wild spinach paneer
Rustam's chicken curry
Saffron rice
cardomom flan
coffee and a house cocktail.


This weekend owing to the numbers Supperclub will run on Friday and Saturday night
We only have two places left for Friday.

see you there...


20 Euros
Alcohol: House cocktail / BYO

Reservation in advance
please no late cancellations

lemontreesupperclub@gmail.com
282 913 741/ or text 915265176

Direction to our place
1 km after leaving Casais 3km from Monchique town, turn left up the hill at the very first road, just before you hit the first building.
Bunch of mailboxes on the corner, small sign saying Portela Baixa./ Serenada
Follow the little wiggly tarmac road up,carry on (past the gravel road on your right which goes to Fionas)
The road makes a bend to the left, right there on the corner. Right at the corner is a dirt track which rises steeply up behind the road
follow it all the way up to the house.

From Monchique
take the Casais road at the Nave Quarry and carry on that road towards Casais.3km
Just before you leave the Monchique area the Portela Baixa turning is on the right up the hill.
If you start going downhill round a bend with
a red house across the valley you've just gone too far and missed the Portela Baixa turning.

Fully Annotated Google Map

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=203215367517446834077.0004b990ea699f6c4325d&msa=0&ll=37.293396,-8.59796&spn=0.018061,0.035083

thanks
Rustam

Dear Friends,
whilst in New Mexico I periodically, or should i say erratically wrote a food blog. It has a few decent recipes as well as some thoughts and musings on food, nutrition and even a little philosophy. Thought I might share it
http://rustyindian13.blogspot.pt

Supper club will be on again this coming Saturday night.
By request Indian food will feature again. Will post a menu later today or tomorrow.

take care

R

A midsummers nights meal

I guess summer has finally arrived after months of ambivalence and indecision. Trees are laden with soft fruit, markets have become ever more abundant and my inclinations immediate turn to salads, fruit and cooling herbs.Rather going with geography, Im going with season and a menu that reflects delightful summer freshness and plenty. 
Chilled cucumber soup
Melon and presunte de Porco preto
Fish with herbs, butter and garlic, with a caper and chipotle cream sauce
Rice with a medley of baby veg
Plum and strawberry summer pudding
House Cocktail and coffee

love and blessings
R
282 913741
text 915 265 176
lemontreesupperclub@gmail,.com

OH Kerala !

Well, Joni Mitchell would've sung it if she'd ever eaten there...no direspect to Canadians intended.

So its about time we revisited the sub continent, its been ten years since I was last in India and my heart always yearns to travel east especially to Kerala the gentle queen of the south: Kerala is coconut palms, bananna trees, dense jungles,the home of Ayurveda and the ancient spice trade, with its cardomom, coffee and  pepper, its magnificent sandalwood forests tigers and elephants.
I cant promise an elephant, but I hope we can create a little taste of that other southwest here in the genial, temperate Algarve.

Some homemade vegetable samosas ( beloved snack of all India)
A traditional Kerala fish curry
Cardomom Rice
Mango Raita
Cococonut and Banana Burfi.
House cocktail and coffe

hope to see you Friday..


All bookings must be in advance

Please, no late cancellations in the last 24hours.

Drinks: Bring your own.

time : 7:30-8:00pm every second friday.Cost: 20 Euros including a House Cocktail

booking email ; lemontreesupperclub@gmail.com

phone+             00(351) 282 913 741      

  
or text  915 265176

Thai Night Part 2

Dear Friends and Patrons,


Coriander,squid, tamarind, lime leaves, shrimp paste galangal, chillies, coconut- the Chang Mai express rolls on.
By popular request Thai night will return to supper club. Those of you who missed the first one, well we cant repeat it verbatim, but we can promise you an authentic taste of Thailand, with aromatic, crisp and intense flavours hopefully delivered with a light touch. 


Chicken or Paneer Satay with a rich peanut sauce
Stuffed squid or aubergine salad
Pad Thai
Coconut creme with candied orange.
house cocktail
coffee


hope to see you again soon


as usual RSVP
time 7.30-8.00
cost 20 euros


bookings : lemontreesupperclub@gmail.com
282 913 741
or text 915 265 176


Warmest regards


Tam and Rustam

Brunch anyone ?

Lemon Tree Brunch Club

Dear Friends and patrons,
Inspired by the the changing season and modest successes of the fortnightly lemontree supperclub we are branching out with the lemontree brunch club which will run every Sunday between 11am to 5pm. Its going to be a much more informal drop-in, chill-out, cafe style happening up here in the hills. Excellent breakfast fare, crisp delicious salads, juices, smoothies and a few sweet things to take the pain away. We are Wifi enabled so you can choose to be wired in or just relax back and enjoy the view to the coast from the cool green Monchique hills.
All home made with our usual love and care from the freshest of ingredients sourced as locally, sustainable, organic and wild as possible.
Hope to see you Sunday. Please pass the word around to your friends.
As we're just starting out we'd appreciate it if  you can give us a heads up that you're coming, but feel free to just show up.

282 913 741

Menu

Eggs Benedict   8
With fried Portuguese bread and presunte do porco preto
and a timeless lemony hollandaise sauce

Chilly garlic scrambled eggs   6
classic creamy scrambled eggs and spring onion with a chilly, garlic twist.

add chouricao +2

Elad's Shukshuka   5
A middle eastern classic; poached eggs, a spicy tomato sauce and fried herb potatoes

Salads

Asian mixed salad   5
A lovely fresh mixed salad with a hot asian style dressing
 prawns +3 , chicken +2  or fresh paneer. +2

Vegetarian Samosas, and salad,  5

Side salad     4
A crisp , clean , full mixed salad

Sweet things

French Bread and Butter Pudding and Cream  3
Creme caramel 3
Waffles with cream, berries and honey and chopped nuts  5

Drinks and Thirst quenchers

Iced Tea  2
Iced coffee  3
Lemonade  2
Arnold Palmer  2
Fresh Orange Juice  3
Veg Juices   4
Smoothies  4/5

Bloody mary  4
House Cocktail  4
Beer  2

Welcome back to the mountain

After the rain soaked wilds of muddy England, we returned to a full house for Fridays "Italian" themed night.
Crisp cool tangy cocktails from the resident potions mistress, gorgeous garden salad, roasted aubergine dip,
polenta with rosemary black pork and a wild mushroom sauce and creamy sumptuous Tiramisu.

What a great time, our now faithful regulars, some beautiful new faces, and an evening that just wanted to go on. Thank you to all of you. A special night in the fragrant cool hills. Sadly no leftovers........ life is cruel.

And a special announcement the upcoming Brunch club. Due to run weekends throughout the summer.
stay tuned for the menu and opening times. We promise there wont be a better, cooler or more relaxed way to get some of the best brunch fare in the Algarve. Head for the hills and be one step ahead of the madding crowd and heat of the day.

Back Again Friday 11th of May.

A small update folks. Life as always has its own plans which take precedence over your own imaginary ones. So the supper club moves to the 11th of May now. This length of hiatus might merit a full relaunch party 


So as soon as we both return from a visit to England and Wales, and after a far too long hiatus
we will be really happy to resume the serious and pleasurable business of feeding people.
I've been itching to include the fantastic local Porco Preto, "black pork" from the Iberian black pig, a true heirloom or heritage semi-wild indigenous breed which does not lend itself to any kind of factory farming and is allowed to forage and feed on the local acorns of the cork oaks. Our superb raw dairy connection, keeps us in the best cream I've had in years and we strive to make the local produce feature large in the food.


As usual

All bookings must be in advance

Please, no late cancellations in the last 24hours.

Drinks: Bring your own.

time : 7:30-8:00pm every second friday.Cost: 20 Euros including a House Cocktail

booking email ; lemontreesupperclub@gmail.com

phone 282 913 741 

or text 915 265 176

Well The middle eastern night was fun and full of gratuitous excess, but the evening that followed was truly special. A performance and sound ceremony by Munayki - A truly magical evening, full moon puja/ land healing with Lucho Quitanilla and Patricia Lesage on the circular terrace specially prepared for sacred purpose by tamasina In the midst of the monsoon rains of April, the gods were kind, the rain and wind stayed away and the moon showed her beautiful face the whole time. Lucho is the real thing , an authentic Peruvian great soul, immersed in the earth and water cultures and their magic transmitted in an authentic lineage. He has wanted to do ceremony to honour this mountain ever since he came here for Peru. We were all transported. For a moment there when the great drum reverberated through the valley shattered the silence and every object simply vanished and there was nothing but the moon. Afterwards an authentic black Oaxacan Mole sauce to continue with the south american theme, and good company way past midnight.

Middle Eastern Feastern Fri 23rd Mar 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Dear Friends I officially turned middle-aged this month, now an old and wiser man ( I hope). The chefs having celebrated quietly have come back re-inspired and we set out to bring you a taste of the middle east
Hints of Morocco, Israel, Lebanon; the magical Levant.

Menu
Pomegranate Cocktail
Houmous and fried bread
Spicy Moroccan meatballs
Falafel
Chicken or Vegetarian Bastilla
Rustam's Levantine Lasagne with Yoghurt and Zahtar Sauce
Marinaded Orange and Saffron Cake
Coffee

All bookings must be in advance

Please, no late cancellations in the last 24hours.

Drinks: Bring your own.

time : 7:30-8:00pm every second friday.Cost: 20 Euros including a House Cocktail

booking email ; lemontreesupperclub@gmail.com

phone+ 00(351) 282 913 741

  

Thai Food Night Friday 2nd March 7.30pm - 8.00

Dear Friends after a nervy but exciting start we are really pleased to be doing our second Supper Club night. The theme as you can see on our global tour is Thai food...seems to be a favourite...look forward to seeing you there. Please book by Monday night it really helps. We can accommodate a maximum of 12 people.on a first come first serve basis.

All bookings must be in advance

Please, no late cancellations in the last 24hours.

Drinks: Bring your own.

time : 7:30-8:00pm every second friday.Cost: 20 Euros

booking email ; lemontreesupperclub@gmail.com

phone+ 00(351) 282 913 741

  

Supper Club comes to the Algarve

3 Months ago almost to the day, We arrived in Southern Portugal having left many friends, a few lifetimes and the mountains of Northern New Mexico behind.  Armed with nothing but a few good ideas, a little courage, some kitchen knives and more art than we know what to do with we decided to take a few baby steps towards an idea that has been simmering quietly for many years

Food has always been a passion( probably a neurotic obsession in truth),

but as they say "your greatest weaknesses can become your greatest strengths"

Put simply , we like feeding people beautiful food in a circumstance of pleasure and comfort. After all, the aesthetic life is to live in service to beauty in all its forms.

So on Friday the 17th of February we started the Lemon Tree Supper Club

in the silent hills of Monchique. See the invite below.

Being Indian and a Parsi myself, it was only fitting to start with a (mostly)

Parsi style menu. (The Parsis, the last people of the great Persian Empire who left Iran 1300 years ago and landed on the western shores of India.)

My fantastic partner Tamasin is a Scottish born country girl, and all round creative genius who can do pretty much anything. (I kid you not)

This was the first of what we hope will be many menu's. By all accounts a wonderful night was had by all those who were brave enough to take a chance on something new, especially the lovely couple who drove all the way from the Alentejo for the evening and especially to our new friends who put the word out.

The theme of this supper club is to be truly global, to run every two weeks exploring the cuisines of the world so that every supper club night will be a unique event.

All the food is fresh local produce cooked from scratch with love and care, not a packet or can in sight, and organic where possible.

NEXT NIGHT IS FRIDAY MARCH 2nd : THAI FOOD NIGHT

menu to be announced

We can serve a maximum of 12 at this time.

All bookings must be in advance

Please, no late cancellations in the last 24hours.

Drinks: Bring your own.

time : 7:30-8:00pm every second friday.

booking email ; lemontreesupperclub@gmail.com

phone+ 00(351) 282 913 741