Tree Crops: Quercus Ilex

A few weeks ago,

while visiting some friends

in the upper Alentejo,

we picked 2 kilos of acorns.

We are eating them roasted,

2 or 3 acorns at each meal.

If I knew they would be this tasty

I would have picked more ...

Check other uses of this magnificent tree:

http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Quercus+ilex+ballota