In Brazil ,in refering to feijoada as the national dish means *feijoada completa.* It's a big production, usually for a Saturday gathering of family and friends, or going out to a restaurant that specializes in it.
It's based on black beans cooked with *carne seca*, a dried beef, ham hocks, ribs, sausages like *morcilla* and *chourico*. Of course everybody has their own idea of what a real feijoada should be. It is often served with * caiparinhas,* which is basically a mojito without mint, just lime,sugar, and cachaca , a liquor made from sugar cane juice, brighter and cleaner than rum, and usually 86 to 90 proof. First the bean liquor is served in small cups like soup, meats are sliced on platters, feijoada in a tureen acompanied by white rice, f*arofa*, which is roasted cassava flour ( think toasted bread crumbs), *couve mineira*, greens sauteed with garlic and red pepper, and a hot red pepper sauce. Eric E On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM, <danandma...@comcast.net> wrote: > *Feijoada* is a stew <http://wiki/Stew> of > beans<http://wiki/Common_beans>with > beef <http://wiki/Beef> and pork <http://wiki/Pork>, which is a typical > Portuguese <http://wiki/Portuguese_cuisine> dish, also typical in > Brazil<http://wiki/Brazil>, > Angola <http://wiki/Angola> and other former Portuguese > colonies<http://wiki/Portuguese_colonies>. > In Brazil, *feijoada* is considered the national > dish<http://wiki/National_dish>, > which was brought to South America by the Portuguese, based in ancient > Feijoada recipes from the Portuguese regions of > Beira<http://wiki/Beira,_Portugal>, > Estremadura <http://wiki/Estremadura>, and > Trás-os-Montes<http://wiki/Tr%C3%A1s-os-Montes> > .[1]<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#129630b654fe7607_cite_note-0> > > The name comes from *feijão*, Portuguese <http://wiki/Portuguese_language>for > "beans", and is pronounced > [fejʒuˈadɐ] <http://wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_Portuguese>. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Vasconcelos" <gfsjo...@gmail.com> > To: azores@googlegroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:08:51 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Cacciola and such > > Actually Cindy, fejoada is Afro Brazillian in origin. When the slave > masters killed pigs, they saved the chops and the pork roasts (all the good > cuts) for themselves and gave the inards, pigs feet, ears, etc to their > slaves. The slaves embelished the "stew" with black beans, etc. If you go > to an up scale Brazillian Restaurant, you will find the fejoada further > embelished with linguica, etc. In some upscale restaurants in Brazil they > will even serve pork chops on the side, a far cry from what the black slaves > originally had. My late wife was Brazillian and filled me in on all this > history of fejoada. > John Vasconcelos > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Cindy D <kcci...@aol.com> wrote: > >> 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" <bellema...@gmail.com> 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 >> azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<azores%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> 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. 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