Sorvetão – vanilla ice cream cake topped with chocolate sauce

Ice cream is at the top of my favourite foods list. This is a Brazilian celebration ice cream cake treat called Sorvetao (translate into big ice cream) . It’s a very old recipe given to…

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Experimenting with Sous Vide Supreme and Donald Russell

So now that I got hold of the latest gastronomic craze, I have been trying and testing recipes using SousVide Supreme and the meat from Donald Russell. Vacuum packing cooking aka SousVide is a modern…

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Beef Stroganoff, recipe

Beef Stroganoff  is a famous Russian recipe from the mid-19th Century. This dish is well-liked all over the world. The original recipe uses heavy sour cream and diced meat. In Portuguese, sour cream is known…

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white chocolate pavé with whisky and Brazil nut praline, recipe

The inspiration for this recipe came from Bresilienne truffle by Godiva (above) – their  signature hazelnut praline using perfectly roasted hazelnuts and a touch of vanilla, coated in smooth milk chocolate and rolled in crispy…

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coconut flour pancake with prune syrup recipe (gluten & diary free)

  In Brazil, we have a desert called manjar branco, it’s a kind of a coconut blancmange, it is pure white and made with fresh coconut, coconut milk and served with poached prunes. It’s very…

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