I wasn't introduced to cacciola until I was in my 40's. We packed up the kids and made the trek to New Bedford one summer and we got there late and tired. We walked into my mom's house and the aroma of something wonderful was wafting around. Yum! Now I've never had cacciola in my whole midwestern life, yet this seemed oddly familiar. Mom said she got it from a deli in New Bedford and we had it on crusty portuguese white bread. So I have wondered ever since if there is some "memory" in my DNA that remembers a cultural dish like that. My kids even liked it. I can't bake bread worth a hoot so I'm not going to try the bread, but the cacciola is well worth the 2 day process. I can't keep my spoon out of the pot! It smells like perfume to me.
Another dish my mother made once a year was feijoada (sp). Mixed meats simmered together with linquica, pork, beef, black beans, garlic, served over rice....another meal to die for. Although she said it was more Brazilian Portuguese. Yum...! Cindy D Kansas On Jun 7, 11:27 am, "\"E\" Sharp" <[email protected]> wrote: > Made a giant pot of cacciola and had the family in to celebrate! Very > not fair to share with all of us!! > > Which brings up the question, any ideas where/when cacciola came from. > Was it first a part of a religious celebration of our ancestors as I > know when one goes to festas you usually have this delicious treat. > > And since this perked the genealogist interest in me, I decided to see > if any of our ancestors used this as their last name, since they were > sometimes so creative with their last names, and I checked it out on > Ancestry; believe it or not it is a very much Italian surname! > > "E" -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
