Archive for November, 2007
Posted on November 26, 2007. Filed under: Arracacia xanthorrhiza, Baby Beef, Bife de Tira, Inca, arracacha, baroa potato, batata baroa, comfort food, food, gnocchi, mandioquinha, mashed potatoes, peruvian parsnip | Tags: arracacha, batata baroa, mandioquinha, persuvian pasnips |
batata baroa
They look like carrots, but don’t think carrots. Think of a potato eloping with a macadamia nut. A grilled T-Bone loves mashed potatoes, but a South American, grass-fed Bife de Tira or Baby Beef Steak loves mashed batata baroa. Imagine the ultimate comfort food, mashed potatoes packed with an earthy, nutty punch.
These tubers go [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2007. Filed under: Brazil, Myrcia cauliflora, cranberry sauce, food, jaboticaba, rhubarb | Tags: Brazil, chutney, cranberry sauce, food, jaboticaba, rhubarb, Thanksgiving |
rhubarb and jaboticaba chutney
Today is Thanksgiving. In Brazil we have turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn bread stuffing and pumpkin pie. It’s just like back in the States. The only thing missing is the cranberry sauce. That is because there are no cranberries in Brazil.
The jaboticaba (Myrcia cauliflora, also spelled jabuticaba) reminds [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2007. Filed under: food, gardening, more food | Tags: baby greens, baby vegetables, beets, broccoli rabe, carrots, coconut soap, hillside, organic matter, rapini, saba, soil, vegetable garden, zucchini, zucchini blossoms |
I really want to be a gardener. I try hard. (Well, Walter tries hard. He’s our gardener.) I research hard. I pour over seed catalogs imagining myself walking through lush rows of possibilities for the kitchen. I have visions of tomatoes, greens and herbs rounded by hedges of roses [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2007. Filed under: Halloween, food, more food | Tags: Brazil, brazilian halloween candy, chocolate cake, churrasco, face paint, hail, Halloween, kids, mummy pizzas, sugar cookies, tropical storms |
I have passed the last nine Halloweens without the bright faces at the front door smiling with “trick or treat” nor with the mountains of bags of snickers bars overflowing from supermarket shelves . I have spent the last nine Halloweens in Brazil. We have snickers bars here. [...]
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