Here is the buffet table with beans, rice, meats, and fixin’s
My dish, in addition to beans and rice, there’s farofa (fried manioc flour), collard greens (haven’t had them in ages – can’t really get them in Finland), fried banana, macaxera (like yucca), meats meats meats. Up to the right you can see some slivers of orange – it’s supposed to aid digestion (ie stop the gas!).
Cafezinho!
The card announcing the buffet. Fei-joa-da is a funny way to break the word (it’s gramatically correct). I’d have written it Fei-jo-ada. Guess you had to be there.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been to Brasil, a country where I have deep roots. Of course, part of a culture is the food, so I was keen on having one specific meal while whipping through Brasil – the Feijoada. I grew up eating it on the traditional Saturday and was bummed out that my schedule conflicted there. Luckily, I didn’t realize that Wednesday was also a day to have Feijoada (I thought it was just my school).
Feijoada is a black bean stew that originated with the slaves. The meats that are traditionally cooked and served with feijoada were the meats that the slaves could get – pig’s ear, hock, tail, snout – YUM!
If I had known we were going to eat feijoada, I would have fasted for a few days and pigged out here. Well, as you can see, my plate wasn’t too small in any case. 😉
Thanks Dolf and Bernardo for bringing me here. You were great company.
