Oreo Ice-cream

Ingredients:
- Oreos biscuits (2 packs: around 300g)
- Double cream (2 pots; around 400ml; get the 'less fat', version if possible)
- Sugar (a few soup spoons)

Whip the double cream until it gets fluffy, and add some sugar to your taste (suggest 2-3 soup spoons; don't put too much, remember the oeros are sweet). Add the oreos broken in small pieces (leave some bigger chunks) and put in the freezer for at least 2 hours. You can change these quantities depending on your personal preferences.

Remove from the freezer 10 min. before serving.

Enjoy :P

(PS - Again, I am afraid I lost the photos...)

Tuna Salad

This is a very easy and light Summer recipe but it does take a bit to do (30 min.) since you need to chop lots of things and boil a few others.

The basic ingredients are:
- tuna (I also recommend some of those canned tuna salads since they add a bit more taste and variety),
- boiled potato and eggs,
- beef tomato,
- Granny Smith apple, and
- pineapple.

Apart from this you can be creative and add lots of other things. I suggest corn, olives, some raw carrot (cut very thin), beetroot, peas. I have also tried watermelon :P
There are no fixed quantities, just use what you like most.

Start by boiling the potatoes and eggs since it takes some minutes, and let them cool down for a while before adding to the rest. Then just cut/chop everything else in medium squares and mix :)
Better served cold.

Note: this is not exactly a starter or a side dish but more of a main course salad.

(PS - I lost all the photos from that day but I'll try to add a photo later)

Coconut cakes ('coquinhos')

Here is a very simple recipe.

Ingredients:
250g of desiccated/grated coconut,
3 whole eggs,
200 sugar,
Baking cases (about 20).



Mix the eggs and the sugar, and then add the coconut. Put small portions in paper baking cases. If you wish, you may decorate the top with some fruit; the traditional option is pieces of dried/cristalyzed cherry.

Place them in a tray and leave them in a pre-heated oven to 180ºC for about 30 minutes.

Do not let the cakes get too brown, for they will also get too dry.

Enjoy! :)