Brazilian Christmas Food

We ate a lot of different things during Christmas, but these were my favorites:

Pavé: Made with sugar, milk, eggs, and vanilla finger cookies, you can make pave with tons of different delicious things, like passion fruit, pineapple, coconut--even bonbons! On Christmas, we had not one but two types of pavé: chocolate and vanilla. Mmm.

Rabanada: The Brazilian version of French toast, rabanada is a traditional Christmas food. But unlike French toast, you don't eat it with syrup, and instead complete coat it in sugar. I'm all about eating it year-round!

Leg of pork: I admit that I'm not even that familiar with American Christmas food, but I'd honestly never seen anything like this before. When Eli's cousin's husband first brought it home, it looked like this. He then proceeded to finely chop a bunch of onions and a whole lot of cloves of garlic, and then dumped them into the blender with salt. He set the leg of pork in a refrigerator drawer, which was the only thing big enough he could find to contain the piece of meat, and then drizzled the mixture on top of the pork. He then dumped an entire bottle of red wine on top, and then repeated the onion-garlic-salt process a few times, adding water until the entire leg was submerged in a purple goo. After soaking the pork overnight, he grilled it, and it looked more like this. I was a little relieved when Eli's cousin exclaimed, "I feel a little bit like a caveman eating this thing!"

Comments

[jeanne]

My family never has leg pork for Christmas, we have turkey instead. It's healthier!

[Mari Biddle]

Eu achei a comida do Natal estranha aqui onde moro atualmente, Chicago. Não comi peru no Natal e não usei vestido pela primeira vez. Todas as mulheres estavam de Jeans. Não gostei da comida fria que foi servida. O ham estava frio. Mas acho que a mulher que fez não é especialista.

bjim

[Kamille]

Some people eat leg of pork in the feijoada, but i never heard about eating on Christmas Eve. We usually eat turkey, codfish or tender (a kind of a ham).

[Anita]

Ola Rachel!
O prato mais tradicional de Natal no Brasil eh o peru, o tender ou o bacalhau, embora a perna de porco realmente nao seja incomum.
Em relacao a rabanada, essa delicia eh heranca portuguesa: fatias de pao dormido passadas no ovo batido e leite, fritas em manteiga e passadas numa mistura de acucar e canela. Em Portugal sao chamadas fatias doiradas (ou douradas).
Um pecado!

Abracos!

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[talkin turkey]

im irish so i eat turkey and ham on christmas day