Dear Members,
I hope you enjoyed the rabanada recipes. In this posting, I’m adding a recipe of one of my favorite recipes for a special “stuffing”, that we call farofa. A friend from Brazil gave me this recipe, when I told her I was going to cook our Christmas dinner for the first time and I was looking for the best of both worlds for our meal!
I hope you enjoy it:
Farofa de Natal
Ingredientes
2 pacotes de biscoito tipo água e sal
200 grs de presunto
200 grs de castanha de caju
1 lata de milho verde
100 grs de passas pretas sem caroço
100 grs de manteiga
1 colher de gordura de porco
1 cebola média
sal
Modo de Preparo
Passar em um multiprocessador, ou no liquidificador mesmo, o
biscoito e reservar. O presunto e reservar. A castanha e
reservar.
Levar ao fogo a manteiga com com a gordura de porco, com a cebola
ralada. Sem deixar escurecer por a farinha de biscoito, mexer bem
e em seguida ir colocando a castanha, o presunto mexendo sempre
para não escurecer. O milho e as passas por último qdo o fogo ja
estiver desligado. Colocar o sal depois da farofa pronta, e muito
cuidado com ele, pois alguns ingredientes ja tem sal.
For translation and more information on the recipe, please contact me.
I also wanted to add a song, which was sung to me during my whole childhood:
Deixei meu sapatinho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Ojb5K6aQM
In Brazil, we don’t put the stockings out for Santa, we put shoes on the windows,
because it’s not cold enough for fireplaces…
Sharing memories of my childhood in Brazil is so difficult because I have so
many memories, smells, flavors stories, songs….I think the appetizers, the
paozinho, the champanhe, the brigadeiros, queijo de cuia….
Tenho saudade destas coisas, de sentar junto com a minha família e lembrar dos
natais em que éramos pequenos…
e que eu ganhei 10 bonecas e no ano novo estavam todas quebradas, dos amigos
secretos, da casa do meu avô e todas nós dormindo no sóton!….
( brigadeiros, sharp cheese. I miss those things, such as sitting with
my family and remembering Christmases past, when we were children and I
got 10 dolls in one Christmas and they were all broken by New Years, memories
of secret santa, my grandad’s house, the attic where many of us girls slept for
many years!….
It was a pleasure to share my memories with you!
Today I went to a Brazilian Market- Victors In Riverside, NJ and I bought a
Chocotone, a panetoni made with chocolate. Sendexnet, also sells it online,
great website!
I will continue to share more memories, please share your memories here.
Feliz Natal!
Claudia Krusch
CK Translations LLC
Offering Portuguese, Spanish and 10 other Foreign Language classes on
line and on site.
www.cktranslations.com
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I included a little bit of Portuguese for Portuguese learners.