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paçoca and PW
I have a pen pal in Brazil (we have a great story of how we became pen pals, but I'll save it for another day) who told me about this dessert, paçoca, which is served during Festa Junina, in June. It's *very simple*: ground peanuts and sugar and a touch of salt, ground to the consistency of wet sand (as one recipe I read described it), and then pressed together in a form.
Eating the foods of faraway places that I'd like to visit but can't is one of my favorite things to do, so just now I made some.
At first I tried to pack it into a star-shaped cookie cutter, but it didn't work too well--the mixture was maybe not ground-up enough (I re-blender-ified it--but you don't want to blender-ify it too much, or you end up with peanut butter), but also all those points are tricky.
Wakanomori suggested I try this little press-thingie that we got at a tag sale forever ago and which I've never used.
So I did, and it worked very well indeed!
Wakanomori tried one, then came back for another. "Very more-ish" was his verdict. Here is the exceptionally easy recipe I used.
And here's something else that's nice--a pre-release review of Lagoonfire in Publishers Weekly. It starts out "Regret, perseverance, and love drive Forrest's sparkling second Tales of the Polity Fantasy" and ends with "this evocative and ultimately uplifting story is sure to please" which--well, I hope so!
It reveals a little bit more of the plot than is maybe ideal? So if you don't click through and read it, I won't mind ;-).
Oh what the heck, I need also to link to this great song I'm listening to because the video is a delight to look at and the song is, as they say in brazil, otima!
Eating the foods of faraway places that I'd like to visit but can't is one of my favorite things to do, so just now I made some.
At first I tried to pack it into a star-shaped cookie cutter, but it didn't work too well--the mixture was maybe not ground-up enough (I re-blender-ified it--but you don't want to blender-ify it too much, or you end up with peanut butter), but also all those points are tricky.
Wakanomori suggested I try this little press-thingie that we got at a tag sale forever ago and which I've never used.
So I did, and it worked very well indeed!
Wakanomori tried one, then came back for another. "Very more-ish" was his verdict. Here is the exceptionally easy recipe I used.
And here's something else that's nice--a pre-release review of Lagoonfire in Publishers Weekly. It starts out "Regret, perseverance, and love drive Forrest's sparkling second Tales of the Polity Fantasy" and ends with "this evocative and ultimately uplifting story is sure to please" which--well, I hope so!
It reveals a little bit more of the plot than is maybe ideal? So if you don't click through and read it, I won't mind ;-).
Oh what the heck, I need also to link to this great song I'm listening to because the video is a delight to look at and the song is, as they say in brazil, otima!
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