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Vegan feijoada

Feijoada
Wash a cup on dry black beans and soak it  overnight. Either on the day of, or the day before, cook the black beans by adding it (with the water it soaked in) to a large saucepot and bringing it to a simmer with two bay leaves. Simmer it for an hour or one and [...]

Pão de Queijo (Brazilian cheese puffs)

Pão de Queijo (literally, cheese bread) is typical from the region of Minas Gerais, where my dad’s family is from but one can find these delectable cheese puffs all over the country. There is even a chain of cafés called Casa do Pão de Queijo. For some reason, I always assumed pão de queijo was [...]

Brazilian Coffee

When Canadians ask me about Brazil, almost the first thing they ask – after the weather, of course – is about the coffee. “It bet you get really nice coffee there!”, they’d say. When I first arrived in Canada, in the days when the only coffee we had at home was sent by my mother [...]