Boa Música, Bons petiscos e Boa Companhia

Toda vez que gostamos de um lugar, é sempre um dos últimos na lista de comentários aqui, porque, cá entre nós, a raiva por um lugar que me atende mal sempre me faz escrever toneladas de linhas por segundo. O conforto de um lugar onde tudo foi bom, só me faz querer voltar. Por isso, eu sei, culpa minha, mas demorei demais pra escrever sobre o Salve Jorge.

Só pra dar uma idéia, nem é a primeira vez que vamos lá. O Salve Jorge é nosso refúgio no Centrão toda vez que chove ou garoa quando estamos no Centro, sem carro. Garoa e chuva no centro de São Paulo não é evento raro, nem sentarmos lá e matar o tempo até uma hora melhor de voltar pra casa. Mas mesmo dessa última vez, virou o ano e eu não escrevi nada. Bom, estou escrevendo agora. Já é algo.

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Today's Special is...

We wanna change a lot of what's going on this year. Some, in the kitchen. I have no “new year resolutions”, nor does Suzana. We're just going to aim for a better year, the best we can, and live life that way from now on.

One of those things we'd love to change for the better, is to buy fresh, delicious stuff to cook with, every week.

But it sucks to be in a supermarket without any idea on what you'll want to cook, or even make it to a street market, searching what's good and delicious, unknowing how to use everything. We're tired of getting lettuce for salads that we'd forget we wanted the next day. Or Broccoli for a soup we would forget three days later.

So that we don't go trough that again, we're making the week's menu, to be published here everytime.

When it looks nice and tastes nice, you'll get photos and a recipe. When it doesn't, you wont. But I guess that a balanced set menu will improve what we eat, and we'll spend much less on the supermarket, and less food will hit the garbage can. I mean, for crying out loud, today when I opened the fridge there were at least four, FOUR kinds of frozen sausage and frankfurters acquired in moments of sheer lust and forgotten as soon as the ice coat formed on them. Enough, right?

So, this week's menu is:

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Happy 2010!

Hey everyone,

It's pretty complicated to make a sum of the year that passed. This need to put in paper a whole year of learning, growing, errs and mistakes, things I did right, saying I'm sorry when wrong, and taking hits from life; it's always good for the soul, but hard to accomplish. And I learned a lot in 2009.

2010 promises to be a much better year, and we'll try to keep the blog updated, we have some two months of delayed posts, ready to be aired, of which I still have either photos to get ready, or text to write.

Anyway, happy new year for all of you. I do hope that for you, just like for me, 2010 will be seen with good hopeful eyes, an year filled with opportunities for happiness, and fulfilled dreams.

That's how this new year is starting for me. I hope your eyes see it the same way :)

HAPPY 2010!!!!

Como não engordar no Natal

Com 1001 nutricionistas histéricos dando pitaco na vida de todo mundo em tudo que é lugar, ceis acham que eu não ia dar o meu também? Lógico que ia.

Segredo único de não engordar no Natal (aliás, segredo único pra não engordar em qualquer situação):

NÃO PASSE VONTADE.

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La Vecchia Cucina

Do you remember when you were just a kid, and your parents mentioned going, or wishing to go, to some posh restaurant?

Well, La Vecchia Cucina is one such place. One of those which intimidate anyone between 20 and 40 years old, raised on video games, dungeon and dragons and computers, because it feels like a place our parents (or any posh grown up) would go to. Let's face it, we're eternal teenagers in comparison to “the older guys”, and most of us just don't go to such places ( and from what we saw the day we went... most of us really don't ).

So, there we went, to venture into this unknown place, the “grown up restaurant”. And we found out not only the food is great, but the place as a whole is very welcoming. The price isn't unreal, the waiters and Maitre won't judge you from above, you don't have to keep whispering, and they even have promotions and affiliated parking lot.

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WTB barraca de angu no RJ

Quando eu era criança, aqui em Sampa, certa vez li uma historinha do Zé Carioca em que o Pedrão (o Rei da Feijoada da Disney) tinha uma barraca de angu, que fazia sucesso.

Desde então, comida de rua no Rio, pra mim, é angu.

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