Attention Faial Property For Sale

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We have friends wishing to sell their properties. We would be happy to help those who have a serious interest in buying property on Faial.

Tobacco Leaves Ready To Roll

Our tobacco leaves have been drying and are at the leathery stage and have now lost their stickiness.
This is how we did it and if you grow and harvest your own tobacco all comments and suggestions would be helpful. Firstly we cut the vein out the center then rolled a leaf really tightly then kept on adding more leaves until we had a tightly rolled cigar and glued the last leaf with a little honey. Last year we had read to roll this tightly then put it in a bag and allow it to ferment but a local guy said his father use to roll it tightly with honey. Well it turned out better to use as chewing tobacco rather than smoking tobacco. This year we have got as far as just rolling it tightly, without so much honey, so this is where we would appreciate any input.

Easy Peanut Brittle

Recently we bought some peanut brittle from Modelo but it was called Nougat - a bit confusing but thank goodness for the clear wrapper. Oh what a dissapointment, the nuts were burnt and the after taste on your tongue was really unpleasant. So how difficult can it be to make peanut brittle? Off to good ol Youtube and like I like to say, keep it simple. More simple this recipe couldn´t be. You will notice everyones comments - where is the bicarb? what about how much sugar etc and I notice there were no replies - WHY because we always want to make things more difficult than they really are. Just take an amount of sugar, and once it has got to the caramel stage add as much or as little peanuts as you like.

It is blowing a hooley outside and we are catching up on blogging and enjoying great
 peanut  brittle. We used almonds, be creative:)