Sunday lunch

Living in NYC changes some habits, as where to party and meet your friends. We still hang out at bars and restaurants, much more often than in Palo Alto, but now we also have some house (warming) parties. It started with Rodrigo and Renata's all the way down in Battery Park, for a beer & caipiroscas' night. We also had a bigger party at Jarek, Rosario and Malik's place, with some amazing guacamole Jarek made himself (I really need that recipe) and tasty vodkas.


So after coming back from Brasil, it was our turn. I decided to make a meal instead of drinks at our place, as some friends went to a very famous Brazilian restaurant and didn't like the service, things went really bad, and maybe I could change that image of lazy Brazilians. I also miss the Brazilian-Italian "Mama's" Sunday lunch with a lot of people, not to mention that I love to cook and the cold weather helps to gather for some extra calories.


The menu was a not well know version of Brazilian strogonoff. By the way, do you know where is that originally from? We guessed Russia, Hungary, and according to [Wikipedia, strogAnoff] is indeed "from Russia, very popular in Iran, Europe, North America, Australia, South Africa and Brazil". It is really easy to prepare, does not require any special ingredients or lots of work.


After some healthy salad and an over-calculated portion of rice, strogonoff and farofa, we had some dessert. It seems that what I thought to be a Brazilian gelatin is actually a Japanese-Brazilian dessert, as Fê told me he had never seen this kind out of my grandma's house. Hm... Has anyone else ever eaten this? Oh, yes, and we had 3 delicious ice creams, I just LOVE fudge brownie!


And it all ended with some Brazilian Pilão coffee!