Personal Chef at Home in Amadora

About our service in Amadora

When a client wants a dish that is not from our own tradition, the method is the usual one but the order is reversed: we ask first. How is it made in your house, what seasoning goes in, what is the right point of cooking, which product is indispensable and where is it bought. Very often the client supplies the spice or the ingredient that only one particular shop in the area stocks, and we bring the rest. We then cook with the care of people carrying out someone else's recipe rather than reinventing it — the final tasting is done by whoever asked for the dish. That is how you cook a good cachupa, a rice seasoned the Indian way or a Brazilian stew without turning it into something else. The rest of the work is as usual. The housing in Venteira, Damaia, Reboleira and Falagueira is mostly from the sixties to the eighties, with mid-sized kitchens and an attached glazed balcony, which is nearly always where the chest freezer lives. Before settling the plan we look at burners, oven and cold storage, because in large families the quantity we prepare depends on it. We cook family dinners at the weekend, parties at home, and weekly sessions that leave food made for several days, divided into portions and labelled. Where the household brings together generations with different tastes, we prepare variants of the same dish — more seasoning for some, less for others — without doubling the work. There are three things we always say before a booking. We cook in your kitchen and with your equipment; we have no production unit and we deliver no food cooked elsewhere. We neither supply nor serve alcoholic drinks, as we hold no licence for it. And if someone in the house has a serious allergy, we warn that in a kitchen in daily use we cannot guarantee the absence of traces of other foods, however careful we are with utensils and surfaces.

What we do as a personal chef at home in Amadora:

Services Included

• Menus that bring together Portuguese dishes and food from elsewhere
• Family recipes cooked with the seasonings you specify
• Dinners and house parties prepared on the day itself
• Weekly sessions leaving food made and divided into portions
• Kitchen, glazed balcony and washing-up left clean

Areas We Serve

We work across the whole town: Alfragide, Reboleira, Damaia, Venteira, Falagueira, Brandoa and Casal de São Brás.

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