Comida Deliciosa

 One thing we are learning from the people here is how to enjoy good food!

our neighbor Fofão brought us yummy fish that he cooked

 Churrasco (street roasted meat, like bbq) is a common thing here.
the chicken is good...

...and I guess pigs head is too!

Our friends teach us how to make native foods

some friends came over and taught us how to make Tacacá which is made from tucupi which is tapioca gel stuff (the white substance in a pot on the left of the picture), and this interesting pepper juice (the yellow stuff in a pot closer to the middle of the picture).

you can put shrimp in if you want to. 

tacaca is made of a certain type of leaf called jambo that numbs your tongue it has to be served in the type of  bowl made out of a gourd that kalina is drinking out of. 

another friend taught us how to make salgados.

salgados can be made many different ways. this type was made with meat and vegetables

this friend taught us to make brazilian  style lasagna.

 it is really tasty with ham and homeade noodles.

 Some of the foods we are used to are different here

Making popsicles from the juice of the acerolas (barbados cherries) growing in our backyard.

this is us eating avocado popsicles. avocado is treated as something sweet here

eating brazilian fried egg hamburgers

the pizza here has hard boiled egg slices on it

people eat farinha with everything. farinha is a rock hard coarse flour stuff made from the roots of mandioca (manioc)

here we are eating pao de mao which means hand bread. the bread you buy here is always fresh and yummy.

People helped us with food a lot when we first got here.

Our friends lent us pots, the younger girls are using one of them to make sweet rice

the mom of the guy at the counter of the hotel we were staying at for the first few days made and delivered us some food when we needed it.

People here are generous and letting us try new things

our friends a at a store let us try this tapioca tortilla thing

We in turn let people try our foods, they are gracious even when they don't love it.

one day we made our style pizza and invited our good friend Luis tried it and loved it. afterwards he told us that he hates garlic and when we told him that there was a lot in our pizza, he did not believe us. 

Vania wasn't sure how she felt when she first tried our apple crisp, but she was gracious to eat it.

we tried to make a thanksgiving pie with our friend

here we are again

we decided to share the pie with friends because they are always so kind to us

posted by: Adira