The holidays are quickly approaching, and Christmas is the major summer holiday before New Year’s and Carnival in Brazil. 
For today’s interactive feature, the question is: What is your favorite Brazilian Christmas recipe? It can be for the main course or dessert, or a drink.
Leave a comment here!
Today, we’re going to take a look at some cooking vocabulary. 
to cook = cozinhar
dining = gastronomia
cooking = culinária
recipe = receita
cup = copo
teacup = xícara de chá
spoon = colher
soup spoon = colher de sopa
teaspoon = colher de de chá
can = lata
batch/bunch = maço
unit = unidade [example: 3 unidades de ovo means three eggs]
Cuscuz is a Brazilian dessert that you will find being sold by street vendors, as well as being a popular family dish. Made with coconut, tapioca, sugar, and condensed milk, it has a gooey, jello-like consistency and is served in rectangular hunks. Sometimes, people will pour condensed milk on top before eating it.
Basically, you mix tapioca and sugar in a bowl, and pour hot water or milk on top to form a paste. Then you add shredded coconut and set the mixture to cool.
Check out some recipes to learn how to make cuscuz!
Tudo Gostoso (Portuguese)
Nestle (Portuguese)
Cybercook (Portuguese)
Today we’re going to learn how to make moqueca de camarão, or shrimp stew, a specialty from Bahia in Brazil’s northeast region. The recipe is based on an African recipe brought by the slaves from Western Africa to Brazil. It uses distinctly African ingredients, like dende oil and coconut milk. This stew is eaten with white rice.
Here are some recipes:
Happy cooking!
Today, we’re going to learn about rabanada, a traditional Christmas dessert in Brazil. 
Rabanada is the Brazilian equivalent of French toast. To make it, you take slices of wheat bread and soak them in milk, wine, or sugar, slather them with eggs and fry them. When ready, they are usually coated in sugar and/or cinnamon, or drizzled in honey.
This treat comes from Portuguese tradition, and was originally created as a dish made with stale bread, in order to use food slightly gone bad instead of throwing it away.
Here are some recipes to try it for yourself:
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