Brazilian Feijoada is a black bean and pork stew that Brazilians often serve topped with farofa, toasted cassava flour. Many call this comfort food the national dish of Brazil. Feijoada, a popular Brazilian dish, owes its name to its main ingredient, black beans (feijão). It is a rich stew traditionally made from different parts of the pig, such as feet, ears, and bacon, as well as other smoked meats. (But don’t worry, I have some substitutions for you if you’re not up to cooking with pig ears and feet!).
Brazilians usually eat feijoada on Wednesdays and Saturdays when restaurants traditionally offer it on their menus and families prepare it in social gatherings.
All social classes eat feijoada since it is such a low-cost dish.
acai are nutritious berries that grow on a species of palm in Central and South America. They have a bright, sweet flavor and are a very deep purple in color. One of the best ways to enjoy acai is to eat them as a frozen puree, almost like sorbet, topped with fresh fruit, typically bananas and granola. This smoothie in a bowl cold, sweet, tart, with crunch from the granola will fill you up, cool you off, and may have all kinds of nutritional and health benefits as well, if the many claims about the health properties of the acai berry are true.