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Feijoada with Smoked Pork and Black Beans

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:10:00 +0000

Feijoada is a pot you build in layers, and the twist that separates a good one from a great one is exactly that: staggering three or four different smoked and cured pork cuts into the beans at different points, so each one has time to give up its particular flavour without turning to mush. Ribs, bacon, sausage, sometimes salt-cured beef — each goes in on its own schedule, and after four hours together in the pot, the beans have taken on a depth that no single cut of meat, however good, could deliver alone.

Brigadeiros with Dark Chocolate and Flaky Salt

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:30:00 +0000

Brigadeiros are small, dense, fudge-like sweets made from condensed milk cooked down with cocoa and butter until it is thick enough to roll into balls, and they are the sweet you will find at every birthday party in Brazil without exception. My twist adds real dark chocolate alongside the cocoa powder, giving a deeper, less one-note flavour than cocoa alone provides, and finishes each one with a pinch of flaky salt, which sharpens the sweetness and makes the chocolate taste more concentrated rather than simply sweeter.

Pao de Queijo: Brazilian Cheese Bread

Mon, 06 May 2024 08:30:00 +0000

Pao de queijo is Brazil’s cheese bread, and it behaves like nothing else in a bread basket: no yeast, no gluten, no rise in the conventional sense, just tapioca starch scalded with hot milk and worked into a stretchy, cheese-heavy dough that puffs into hollow, chewy little domes. The traditional cheese is queijo minas curado, a firm, salty, slightly tangy cow’s-milk cheese from Minas Gerais, and I keep that as the backbone here. But I fold in gruyère alongside it, because gruyère melts with a nuttier depth and a longer stretch than most cheeses I can buy easily outside Brazil, and the combination gives you both the sharp tang of the original and a rounder, more savoury pull.