Hi all,

My hubby is Moroccan, but works with a woman that is from Brazil. She is constantly cooking food and bringing it to work for everyone. He is going crazy over this food. I have her number, but I guess I am too shy too call her to ask her for some recipes.

So for my question, is there a thread somewhere here with some of these great Brazilian dishes that is in English?

I'm sorry I can't be of any help but we had a Brazilian friend when we were kids and she was shocked to see us put salt on the avocados that we were having with dinner. She then told us that in Brazil people treat avocados like fruits and make avocado juice with milk. Is this true?

Diana

Yeah, I lived in Brazil for a little while and I've seen the sweetened avacado thing. I thought it was strange, but people in Ethiopia do the same thing. They make sweet smoothies from avacados.

They do that in Morocco too. They make juice with milk, avacado's, apples, and sugar. My hubby loves it but I can't say I care for it.

I can start posting some recipes in this thread, if you'd like. In english.

Brazilian food much like American food varies greatly from region to region. The food is often closely compared to American Southern Cooking, using pork, rice, black eyed pees, cayenne type chilies, and some unique cheeses. I would recommend finding out what region this girl is from and that will tell you a lot about the type of food she is making. The food in the North East of Brazil is vastly different form the south. Brazilian food relies heavily on salt as active ingredient to bring out the flavor in the food. The excessive amounts of salt can be traced back to the seafaring days of the Portuguese using it to preserve almost everything.

This site was always a favorite of a coworker. They have videos and the recipes online:

http://receitas.maisvoce.globo.com/Receita...ECHEADO,00.html

m.

I would love that! I think I remember Charles saying you are a good cook.



Thanks for the link, unfortunately I can't read it.

well, he's my husband he's supposed to say that.
This weekend I'll go over the brasileiritchas thread and see what I can repost here in english. I'll also post some of my recipes.
The thing is, I don't really cook brazilian recipes. I cook whatever hubby and I like, which is usually anything with lots of garlic and pepper

My wife bought me a Brazilian cook book for Christmas ( I am a very good cook so this wasnt just a hint, we both just know who the chef in our house is ) She bought it in Brazil but everything is in english. I will post some on here tomorrow One thing that i wish I could have here is Farofa, it isnt sold in Richmond VA, its just not a flour we use in my city I guess, and im just not sure about ordering food off of an internet website. And what Mateo said is true, my wife is from Para and there is not one dish in this cook book from her state, well the dish is there but when we look at the recipes she says the book is crazy and thats not how its done.

yeah we don't have farofa here, farinha de mandioca. I ordered it online.

Hi I was your post I am sorry that I don't know our name but I thought you would like those links
http://www.recipehound.com/Recipes/brazilian.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/21848/Cooking-The-Brazilian-Way

Sometimes some recipes are like too fat or there is something hard to find in US so to let you know the brazillian food alows you to adapt from fat to light or some recipes that you don't have there you should probably google and do some research and if you find something in poruguese try use the google translate is a kind of hard because it doesn't translate all the words but try to put the pieces together and you might understand hahahahha

I found this blog that is from a Brazillian woman that lives in Chicago I knoew her from a group on Orkut and I really liked because she mix like brazillian ways to cook with american products

in one of her posts she did a little dictionary for food that is pretty good
so here is the link in portuguese http://www.comaninha.blogspot.com/
and here is the link translated http://translate.google.com.br/translate?u...BR&ie=UTF-8

and is you need some help you can just post something here and we can try help you!
and by the way don't be shy we love given recipes from Brazil =)

Thanks so much, this is a start.

Here we have a couple of Brazilian markets where you can buy farofa.

000-which part of Para is your wife from?

My husband is from Rio Maria.

There are plenty of stores herre that sell that.

This is how I make feijao:


Make pinto beans and when they're done chop up some chourico and mandioca and let it cook for another hour.The recipie I have calls for chopped up hard boiled eggs,but I hate them so I never add them.You could do this in the crock pot if you wanted to.

Thank you so much. Stupid question here. What is courico and madioca? Where do I get it? Maybe I should just give up and make him egg sandwiches...lol

Ooops I'm sorry .Chourico is a spicy portuguese sausage and mandioca is a distant cousin of the potatao.Before I was able to actually get mandioca,I would use yuca instead.You have to boil the yuca first though becasue it's always hard.




We have tons of it here.Before one would have to go to Hyannis to get it.

To my knowledge, mandioca is the same as yuca, I cheat here and but it canned. It's cut in larger pieces and just soft enough to throw into a stew.

no one really posted any recipes LOL
I'll start then, I don't think it's any typical or something everyone eats in Brazil, but it's really good, and so far I haven't known anyone that didn't like it.It's also really simple and fast.


Batatão (big potato)

-5 of the big potatoes
-1 teaspoon of salt
-Ham in slices(water added, not the honey ham crap lol)
-mozzarella cheese (the more cheese, the best!)
-1/2 cup of requeijão(spread cheese named puck, it's a white thingy that's sold in indian/arabic stores, comes in a glass with a blue big cap with a flower on top of it)

Peel the potatoes and slice them in circles, about an inch thick slices, boil water(enough to cover all the potatoes), once it's boiling add the salt teaspoon and add the slices potatoes.
Let them boil always stirring and checking how soft they are, check with a knife, once they break in half, they are good.
Once they are soft, get rid of the water and arrange it in glass thingy(sorry, forgot the name now hahaha like the ones you use for lasagna)like this: one layer of potatoes, one layer of spread cheese, one layer of ham, one layer of cheese, all the way to the top, finish it with a layer of cheese and take it to the oven, medium temperature, for about 10 min(just enough to melt all the cheese).

That's it, it is as simple as it is good, all my family loves it and whoever tried it, can't believe how good and simple it is.
Have fun and let me know if you liked, I'm gonna post a dessert to go with it.

There goes another easy simple and delicious recipe.
Pink dessert

-one can of sweetened condensed milk.
-one can of table cream(also called media crema, you can find it at walmart in the latino aisle)
-one can of boiled water(use the sweetened condensed milk can)
-one jello package(any pink ones, pick the one you like more, I think strawberry is the best, though)

Pour the sweetened condensed milk can in a blender.
Place the jello in a tupper ware and and add the water(while still boiling) mix it well until no "little pieces" are left.
Add that to the blender and the table cream, as well.
Blend it for 2 minutes.
Take it to the frigde for about 2 hours til it's bubbly and hard(it has the consistency of a mousse.)