Maybe it's the peanuts in the sauce?
Home made Fejoada.
Made a massive, massive pot.
Huge.
G'wan then, what was in the pot
Fejoada's one of those things where you add an unholy number of ingredients. I've never quite settled on what should go in there - The Brazilians add all sort of porky things, salted meats, black chorizo, pigfoot, ears and many other bits. I've never really cook it enough to achieve any kind of consistency or real knowledge about the dish, not helped by the nice Brazilian folks down Whitecross Market selling a decent version
No idea what to cook tonight. Have the last of the year's courgette flowers and want to use them soon. Hard to see past stuffing them with some kind of cheese, coating in tempura, and deep frying the bastards
I quite fancy going a little Mexican tbh. Stuffed courgette flower tacos?
Let me see, 8 thick cuts of smokey bacon, smoked Polish sausage, belly pork, and some stewing steak, half a packet of black beans, handful of black eye peas and barley.
Bay leafs, basil, about a pint of left over beef stock. 1/2 pint water.
I cheated and used the pressure cooker.
Blasted the steak and belly pork on high for 15 mins and then added the rest in.
Took about 1 hour 15 mins to cook.
Yeah you're right with the pigfoot and ears.
Some of my Brazilian friends suggested this.
But I think there's no need when you can get superior quality cuts of meats are so readily available.
Whitecross Market? That's way too far!
Have you been to the Brazilian place near Vauxhall?
http://www.eatingeast.co.uk/2009/09/17/where-to-get-portuguese-and-brazilian-groceries-in-london/
And where's your butcher? I've been trying to find a decent one for ages now...
Nice idea with the tempuara btw. I fucked it up the other day (did it with leeks and it was gross).
Oh nom, well done. I love love love feijoada. I had the best I've ever had at a Brazilian place recently and they point blank refused to share their secrets with me They did obviously add vinegar though, and cumin.
I just had egg and chips. But now I'm definitely making feijoada at the weekend. We've got a Brazilian butcher not too far from here. Pig snouts aplenty.
Yeah that's it. Cummin...
Where is your Brazilian butcher? And are they expensive?