Carnaval

Catholic Celebration The Carnaval happens during four days, it starts on a Saturday and it ends on a Tuesday 47 days before the Easter. Today the Carnaval in Brazil is a big festival where people go to the streets and clubs to dance to Samba music, Maracatu, or old Carnaval songs, wear colored costumes or very little clothes, and party as much as they can.

The Carnaval happens during four days, it starts on a Saturday and it ends on a Tuesday 47 days before the Easter.

Today the Carnaval in Brazil is a big festival where people go to the streets and clubs to dance to Samba music, Maracatu, or old Carnaval songs, wear colored costumes or very little clothes, and party as much as they can.

PARTY LIKE A BRAZILIAN! Activities: It can last for a whole weekend or more. Performance of traditional carnaval dances and songs like drums. Carnaval ball with confetti, streamer, gliter. Costume/masked party/contest. Make your own mask. Good for selling drinks like caipirinha Brazilian food, like feijoada, white rice, barbecue. Very atractive for young people and singles.

Activities:

It can last for a whole weekend or more.

Performance of traditional carnaval dances and songs like drums.

Carnaval ball with confetti, streamer, gliter.

Costume/masked party/contest.

Make your own mask.

Good for selling drinks like caipirinha

Brazilian food, like feijoada, white rice, barbecue.

Very atractive for young people and singles.

PARTY LIKE A BRAZILIAN! It will require: Good dancers. Good/brazilian musicians and drum players. Good cook/bartender Confetti, streamer, gliter (it can be sold), material for masks/costumes.

It will require:

Good dancers.

Good/brazilian musicians and drum players.

Good cook/bartender

Confetti, streamer, gliter (it can be sold), material for masks/costumes.

Recipe for Feijoada: 1 pound of black beans 1 pound of smoked sausage 1 pound of carne seca or 1/2 pound of bacon 4 pork shoulder bones and ears 2 small onions 2 garlic cloves 2 large bay leaves 2 cups of beef stock olive oil salt and fresh pepper very hot pepper sauce Wash beans well and then leave them soaking in 1 liter of water overnight. On the next day, cook the beans and water on low heat for about an hour with the beef stock. While the beans are cooking, cut the meats into bite size chunks, put them all in a pan, cover them with water and boil them for about ten minutes. Chop the onions and the garlic finely and mix in random herbs and spices (a spice mix for salads would work well here). Heat three spoons of oil in a frying pan and fry the onion mixture until it caramelizes. Add a ladle full of beans (which at this point should be soft) and mash it together with the fried onion mixture. Put the bay leaves into this mush and let it fry for a few minutes. Pour everything back into the beans. Put the strained meats into the beans and add a cup of water. Stir. Add salt and hot pepper sauce to taste. Serves 5 over rice. Can and should be served with peeled oranges and boiled, salted and shredded collard greens. To drink, prefer beer or caipirinha. Caipirinha Ingredients: Lime Sugar (2 to 3 Tbsp.) Ice 5 onces of Brazilian Cachaça or vodcka Cut the lime into eight wedges (not slices) Muddle(*) the lime over the sugar. Fill the glass with ice cubes. Pour in the cachaça. Stir. Serve with a straw.

Recipe for Feijoada:

1 pound of black beans 1 pound of smoked sausage 1 pound of carne seca or 1/2 pound of bacon 4 pork shoulder bones and ears 2 small onions 2 garlic cloves 2 large bay leaves 2 cups of beef stock olive oil salt and fresh pepper very hot pepper sauce

Wash beans well and then leave them soaking in 1 liter of water overnight. On the next day, cook the beans and water on low heat for about an hour with the beef stock.

While the beans are cooking, cut the meats into bite size chunks, put them all in a pan, cover them with water and boil them for about ten minutes.

Chop the onions and the garlic finely and mix in random herbs and spices (a spice mix for salads would work well here). Heat three spoons of oil in a frying pan and fry the onion mixture until it caramelizes. Add a ladle full of beans (which at this point should be soft) and mash it together with the fried onion mixture. Put the bay leaves into this mush and let it fry for a few minutes. Pour everything back into the beans.

Put the strained meats into the beans and add a cup of water. Stir.

Add salt and hot pepper sauce to taste.

Serves 5 over rice. Can and should be served with peeled oranges and boiled, salted and shredded collard greens. To drink, prefer beer or caipirinha.

Caipirinha

Ingredients:

Lime

Sugar (2 to 3 Tbsp.)

Ice

5 onces of Brazilian Cachaça or vodcka

Cut the lime into eight wedges (not slices)

Muddle(*) the lime over the sugar.

Fill the glass with ice cubes.

Pour in the cachaça.

Stir.

Serve with a straw.