Chile 0 - Brazil 9

Chile played valiantly, but the only criticism of the Brazil team by the ITV pundits was the size of their goalie's shorts. For tonight's dinner the tall bloke prepared a meal from the cuisine of Chile. For our starter, he had made empanada pastry from scratch and filled it with cheese, onion, garlic and nutmeg.

Here is the recipe for the dough, tall bloke said he made the "con queso" filling from another recipe: soften the onions in butter and add the garlic, then allow to cool. When cooled, spoon inside the onion mix with the cheese and nutmeg, into the rolled out dough. Form into small pasty shapes and bake in oven for 10 mins or until brown.

I made a salsa from onions, tomatoes, red chilli, cucumber, a squeezed lime, salt and pepper, which was a lovely accompaniment to the hot empanada.

For our main dish, the tall bloke prepared a Chilean rice and chicken in "caldo". Caldo is the Spanish word for a meat gravy, only don't imagine it is the same as the British brown version, this is an almost translucent juice, but it is highly delicious and a really lovely change.

I highly recommend these dishes. I loved the empanada (anything with pastry or bread!) and tall bloke said that he would repeat these, but add different fillings, such as tomato and ground beef.

Portugal 0 - Brazil 0

As today is Friday (so I'm wiped from this week at work) and the tall bloke has surpassed himself with the offerings from the home v. world kitchen, I agreed that we should go out. However! We did not break the spirit of our World Cup food diary, so we went to Nandos restaurant for some Portuguese chicken and chips.

My apologies for the low quality image - it was taken with my Blackberry but this is no reflection of its capabilities, only a display of my poor talents as a photographer. I'm not entirely sure why I didn't snap it with the tall bloke's brand new i-phone 4, which arrived this morning. He hasn't stopped playing with it all day. I'm afraid he's going to become another one of those "its changed my life" type i-phone owners. Oh well, must remember tall bloke now has that bit of kit.

My Mum makes the meanest coleslaw I've ever tasted - perhaps this is because it is the original version of it for me, but I've tasted a great many world wide and really nothing beats Mum's recipe. She says it is much cheaper to make it yourself, especially if you are feeding the 5000 at a BBQ.

Mum uses the food processor to cut up the carrot, white cabbage and onion, but you can use a mandolin (if you are brave enough!). After all these raw ingredients are chopped, add full fat mayonnaise, a large splash of orange juice and 2 dashes of vinegar. Stir in each element, before adding the next. Add salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy!

Brazil 2 - North Korea 1

This evening's menu was chosen from the Brazilian cuisine. The tall bloke freely admits that the only original element made by him in this meal, was the salad dressing. So tonight, I share with you the links to the exact recipes he used - it was all super delicious:

Barbecued steak with a Brazilian style sauce (marinaded for 4 hours prior to cooking-very organised tall man). This link also takes you to the sauce he chose - the wonderfully named: Chimichurri Rojo
Fried onion rings
Feijao (beans)
Arroz branco (Brazilian style rice)