Mom's food on arrival.
Beef stroganoff
Sweets at the shopping mall.
Quindim (yolks and coconut) and pastel de Belém (Portuguese custard)
Dinner with friends at a Dutch restaurant.
Filet mignon with Dutch cheese and fire
Filet mignon with mushrooms
Beef ribs fried meatballs
Goulash
Rice, mashed potatoes, fries, salad
Lunch at the Public Market (where I buy the cachaça)
Shrimp Brazilian fried empanada (pastel)
Grilled fish (sole) with shrimp sauce
Strawberry with cream
Portuguese seafood restaurant at the shopping mall - Marco's
Appetizer - salted codfish cakes
Bolinho de bacalhau - North of Portugal
Pastel de bacalhau - South of Portugal
Salted cod fish with cream sauce
Bacalhau às natas
(there are over 1000 ways to cook bacalhau)
Dessert - warm guava paste with cream cheese ice cream
Romeo e Julieta (how we call it, yes from Shakespeare, guava with cheese)
Dinner at a German restaurant - Prinz
Roll of filet mignon stuffed with ham and cheese
covered with cream sauce
Filet recheado ao molho de nata
Dinner at home with family - pizza delivery
Best pizza in the world
Daily breakfast
French bread with mortadella and salami, cheese bread
Mortadella sandwich with French bread
French bread with salami and mortadella
French bread with blood sausage (morcilha preta)
Fresh French bread at the grocery store early in the morning
Cheese bread (top)
French bread (bottom)
French bread
Breakfast meat
Cheese and breakfast meat
Sunday morning at the flea market
Acarajé - hot spicy beans cake stuffed with shrimp and coconut paste,
traditional from the State of Bahia, Northeast of Brazil
Mom's birthday lunch at a restaurant in a beach city Capão da Canoa
(Where I also have a condo)
Filet mignon parmigiana
Chicken parmigiana
Fried fish appetizer
Fried polenta appetizer
Breaded shrimp
Filet mignon with cheese sauce
My choice - shrimp Greek style (no way this is Greek, anyway this is what they call it)
Skewers of shrimp and cheese breaded and skewers of fruits (peach, pineapple, strawberry and fig)
Desserts later at home
Lunch with a friend at Barranco, very traditional steakhouse
Picanha (top of cap sirloin with fat) and handmade sausage
Orange flan
Buying sweets for the office at a popular place near the beach town
Maquiné, that's the place
Dinner at brother's house
Sausage hot dogs
Moroccan sweets store at the shopping mall
Brazilian fast food
Pressed burger
With everything inside
Thin large patty, fried egg, cheese, lettuce, tomato, corn, peas
Bauru, a different type, with French bread, filet mignon and four cheeses, also a lot of lettuce and tomato
Baalbek - Lebanese food is very popular in Brazil
Syrian and Lebanese are Phoenicians, food is completely different than Arab food you eat in Saudi and UAE.
Raw beef in the middle my favorite (raw kibbeh)
Fried kibbeh, falafel, kafta (the meat skewers)
Chanclichi - Salad with goat cheese, they mix at the table
Lentils, beans, stuffed grape leaves
Esfiha, kind of Lebanese pizza
Lunch with family - Chinese food (Brazilian style)
Sweet and sour pork, kung pao chicken (frango xadrez), rice chop suey
Lunch - all you can eat buffet $6
Figs in syrup with food
Desserts, all you can fit in a bowl is included. Extra bowl is 95 cents.
Another buffet, all you can eat $8
Walking at the public market downtown, which was flooded a couple of months ago with 5 ft of water. In this market is where I buy the cachaça for the office.
Beef jerky, very traditional in my State, because of the cowboys
Tripes, pork parts
Beef jerky and rope sausage
Last dinner with family
Another giant filet mignon parmigiana $30 for 3-4 people.
