Showing posts with label Brazilian Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazilian Food. Show all posts

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Motu's Farewell

Thursday was our little Christmas/Farewell celebration at the restaurant I work at, Motu's. For those of you who don't know yet, the restaurant is closing on Dec 31 so come by before then and have some lunch with me! We're open Dec 22, 23, 29, 30 and 31 8am till 3pm. I still am not sure what will happen to me once it closes. I might go back to the call center. I'll keep you posted. So far, it has been a good ride and even though I get stressed out down at the restaurant I also have a lot of fun!

Because the employees are from all parts of the world, we had a yummy variety of food choices for our dinner. It was all so good!
I made Brazilian Flan - Pudim de Leite, and sprinkled it with green and red coloring, you know, for Christmas colors! :)
Our manager, Marvin, ordered this Tres Leches cake (I LOVE tres leches cake!!!) to celebrate Azalia's birthday and our farewell. It was yummie!
This is us, the Tahitian Noni Cafe/Motu's team all together by a pretty Christmas tree.
I'll miss you all!



Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Cuzcuz!

Since Friday, when we went to the Brazilian place and had Brazilian pizza (see post bellow) I have been wanting more and more Brazilian food. Yesterday me and my friend Adriana went to a place called La Pequenita (on State Street in Orem) and I bought "fubá", which is a tipe of pre-cooked corn powder that you can make many yummy things with. I chose to make CUZCUZ - which, btw, each state in Brazil has a different way to make it but it's always delicious! - and here is a picture of my special cuzcuz pan that my mom brought me two years ago and my cuzcuz.

I called my aunt in Brazil tonight to get her recipe. 2 cups of the corn mix, 1.3 cups water, mix it, let it sit for about 10 minutes, put in the special pan that has a separator for water to boil its vapor on the bottom, wait until it smells like, well, cuzcuz, and it's good.


Either the mix I bought is old or I put too much water. In either case, it tasted DELICIOUS after some (okay, a LOT) of butter and some salt :) Next time I will make cuzcuz paulista. Google it, looks good! Oh, you can also eat it with milk and sugar, or with salty proteins like eggs, meat, chicken, cheese. Oh SO GOOD!! :)