Meme - 5 things about me

The lovely Toni, from the Daily Bread Journal, has tagged me for a meme - there you go, 5 things about me you probably don't know:- I was fascinated by books and comic books so my mom would read to me all day long - I mean it. I wanted her to read to me all the time, and when my father arrived home from work he had to read to me, too.One day, my mom came to the conclusion that it would be a lot

Chocolate fingers

João loves chocolate fingers so I decided to make them at home. I found a recipe on this website and since I’ve made several recipes from there I thought I should give it a try.Just a few ingredients, a soft dough that comes together quickly and that makes a lot of cookies – I halved the recipe and got 50 fingers, 9cm each.My husband loved the cookies - he doesn’t want the store-bought version

Walnut braided bread

I had a sudden urge to make bread – that happens, sometimes – but didn’t have many ingredients at home.There was a bag of walnuts that would go rancid pretty soon unless I used them – and that’s what I did.I used a recipe from a Brazilian website and, instead of filling the bread with apricots and jam, I used brown sugar and chopped walnuts.The dough is soft and comes together really quickly. I

Dulce de leche brownies

I don’t mean to make my dear readers rush into their kitchens in a sudden urge to bake, but these are the most delicious brownies ever!Since I made the brownies for my sister’s birthday party, I cut them bite-sized and placed them in fluted paper cases – but I’m sure they’d be wonderful cut in larger pieces, served with ice cream. Yummy.The brownies were a hit among the 13-year-old girls.Recipe

Tail of round with shallots

The minute I saw this recipe I knew I had to make it for João – he loves beef, he loves onions.It was taken from a book I have – it’s a compilation of recipes from a Brazilian food magazine. I made few changes, nothing big.João really liked the dish and asked me to make it again, with one condition: to use striploin instead of tail of round – he told me it has much more flavor.Since I don’t eat

Spinach and radish salad with mozzarella rolled in breadcrumbs

I’ve always loved vegetables – as a kid, I used to ask for a tomato or raw carrots as my afternoon snack and I would eat a huge bowl of watercress or arugula watching TV with my mom – I was a weird child, you might think. :)Surprisingly, this is only the second salad I publish here.I’d been keeping this recipe on my “to do” list – which is so big it’s actually a folder - for such a long time and

The amazing orange cake

This might sound biased coming from a person who loves oranges, lemons and limes as I do, but this is one of the best cakes I’ve ever made – really.The “amazing” on the title suits this cake perfectly!I found the icing a little too sweet, so I intend to make this cake again and drizzle it with nothing but freshly squeezed orange juice.I’ll publish the original Jill Dupleix’s recipe but must warn