Saturday, January 27, 2007

Feijoada

Well we've been here for well over a year and we had never had a meal of "real" feijoada - the quintessential Brazilian meal. That is, until tonight! The girls were all babysitting for the evening so Shannon and I snuck out for a bite at a restaurant within walking distance of our house. Shannon decided to pass on the feijoida, since she knows what's in it. They had three different sizes: small, medium, and large. Assuming that the small was for "girly-girls", I ordered the medium sized meal. They gave it to me on FOUR platters! It looked very much like in this picture actually. I managed to get through about half of it before I felt like the forklift would be necessary. I was uncomfortable for the rest of the evening (but happy!) So what's in that little cauldron? Basically, the concept of the feijoada is to see that NOTHING goes to waste. My meal had tongue, ears, and neck parts. There were other (much better) parts in it too. Being a garbage-gut, I loved every bite. But even I found it necessary to cut out some of the fatty parts. Shannon enjoyed her chicken parmegiana, and watching me eat.