Yesterday we hosted our first feijoada, for my birthday and E.'s.
If you're familiar with Brazil, feijoada needs no explanation. For those of you who aren't, this is a meal of rice, beans, and meat, served with collards and tomato salad.
But feijoada transcends mere rice and beans. In part because of the enormous quantities of meat that it's cooked with--calabresa sausage, beef ribs, bacon, lombo, charque (Don't ask me what lombo and charque are. I don't know.)
Feijoada is also labor intensive--you have to start days in advance, desalting the meat, soaking it and changing the water multiple times.
I wish I could claim that I made it, but once again, it was Dete, who worked an insane number of hours to create this lovely meal.
(Plus the birthday cake--gluten-free and everything!)
The collards, of course, are cooked with bacon.
You have to love a meal where bacon is one of the vegetables.
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The feijoada was a real hit. Dete was showered with praise by everyone...she is a remarkably talented chef. She was very particular about the kinds and quantities of meat that make the taste just right.
There's nothing like sharing great food with good people. What a great birthday party.
Happy Birthday, E and E! Lovely photos of a lovely day.
hi! wow, great post. strangely enough i haven't had feijoada at home, only at restaurants. hmmm that will change :)
thank you for adding me as a link, i will do the same and start a new brazil section.
You are gluten free too? excellent.
i intend to follow you as one of my regular blogs so we can become friends :) my mother in law's family is from Bahia (vitória da conquista) and we intend to travel there sooner than later!
I cannot wait for the move. we have been attempting packing for over a month, i don't want to bring very much. i already sent a lot of things already in H's suitcase, and now i have to sort through the rest. i am not scared at all, i really feel that this is how my life was supposed to turn :)
Thanks, Whitney!
And thanks, Mallory. I didn't even realize you were gluten free, too. Would love to become friends. When you make it to Bahia, let me know if you're near Salvador!
Lombo should translate to loin and charque should be some kind of jerky or salted meat?
I'm familiar with the "Mineiro" style of feijoada, and my friends typically leave out the salted (dried) meat. But they will put in pig ears and tail, which may sound awful, but it tastes very good :-)
hey! charque is jerk, jerk beef. it even sounds the same almost, probably same Latin root?
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