Food

We are headed to the beach tomorrow for 3 days.  We are all so excited and ready to go.  Today my dad and I took Benny to school and he rode his bike.  The weather was beautiful and when we got there he was running around playing with the kids and having fun.  It was nice to see how good he gets along there.  When he gets to school he has coffee w/milk and bread and then at 10:30 he eats beans and rice, salad and fresh juice.  At first he didn’t like it but now he loves beans and rice. 

Everyone eats beans and rice every day here.  You can stop and eat Launches – a place where you get sandwiches.  A Padaria- is a bakery where they have sandwiches, breads and pastries.  Or you can go to a place where they have lunch by the kilo.  It is a buffet style where they make all of the traditional Brazilian dishes, which is Beans, rice, salad & protein.  They always have a couple of styles of beef and a lot of salads to choose from.  My mom had a great time eating there and loved it.  Or you can go to a restaurant like where we went last night for espetinios .  These are skewers of meat, cheese or even breads.  The waiters bring them around and you pick what you want to eat and put it on your plate.  There are also pizzerias and churrasco’s.  Churrascos are places like a buffet that have salads and sides but the guys bring around large cuts of meat and shave it at the table if you want it.  I prefer the skewers and 100% the Pizza.  I always stick with Pepperoni if they have it as this mine and Ben’s favorite.  However they usually don’t have pepperoni so we go with a margarita pizza.  Sometime we get calabrasia which is sausage but the whole pizza is usually covered in a pound of sausage and it gets to be too much.  The local favorite here is the Portuguese pizza.  I am not a big fan but it is the most popular for sure.  On a Portuguese pizza you will have sauce, cheese, peas, eggs and Ham?  Its some sort of meat.  I will find out for sure the next time we go out.  Or if anyone knows…. Help me out here.