Comments on: Rochelle’s Easy Black Beans and Rice Recipe

By: Sims

Sims — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:45:22 +0000

“emplegada” ever made feijoada like this. I’ve lived in Rio (south) and Alagoas (North East) and the recipe was the same. If someone could post the actual recipe that would be great.

By: Sims

Sims — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:44:04 +0000

I was quite confused reading her article but as she was told this was typical Brazilian, you really cannot fault the author. I have lived in Brazil (I was born there, grew up in US) off & on over the years & none of our \

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:05:51 +0000

Eu morei no brasil tambem.. vc nao faz arroz assim. E vc nao faz feijao assim numa panela. Claro que vc usa Panela de Pressao. E concordo vc nao usa “mushrooms” Nao gostei essa receita

By: ana

ana — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:34:21 +0000

Hello,

My name is ana and I live in Holland now. I used to live in New Jersey, USA. The town in Harrison called New Werk. There are alot of Portugese and Brazilian people. My dad is married to a Brazilian woman and she used to call black beans with rice all the time they were sooooo delicious. I don\’t have so much contact with her and didn\’t feel like calling the USA for the recipie so I decided to look it up online and I found all these comments about black beans and rice and about the word \

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:42:06 +0000

There are many ways around the globe to cook rice and beans. Just a tip, a important one: the beans must be soaked overnight, about 8 hours. This not only helps the cooking - you don\’t even need a pressure pan - but for digestion too. Black beans, like many other beans, can be quite hard for the stomach. The southern brazilian recipe fries the beans with some garlic, put it to boil with hot water, and some chopped ciboulle, parsley are added, maybe coriander and grounded cumin seeds. Animal products, like \

By: Adriano

Adriano — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:31:15 +0000

Hi,

I’m from Brazil and I agree that exists very many ways to cook it… But what Monica says is that correct: “The typical Brazilian rice isn’t prepared with so much garlic, and no mushroom is added.” It´s only white rice, with garlic, salt and onion. Mushrooms is a “modification” of this receipt. Helen are correct too, it’s only a variation of spices, very used here in Brazil.
Now the beans: this receipt are from Cuba black beans. The Brazilian beans are different too. Have many ways to do. The most appreciated and popular is Feijoada. Exists a very large kind of beans and receipt. I’m very glad to tell everyone who wants to know how to do the real brazilian beans. And about that ‘Brasileiro’ says, sorry about it, but sometimes other people think that Brazil is like any other Latin country. Here we speak Portuguese language and we don’t speak spanish. ‘Chica’ really not belong to us, but, curiously, I called my bike ‘Chica Boluda’. But it’s another motorcycle history…lol..

Have a nice day!!!

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:40:03 +0000

First of all, the author of the article was just trying to add a little variety and spice of life to her article. How about commenting on the taste of the dish and offer up the cultural diversity comments as another opportunity to learn and grow. Frankly, I think I’ve already lost my appetite for the recipe based on the stinging comments.

Come on ladies and gentleman, how about a litte courtesy to the hoste.

By: ana

ana — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:20:01 +0000

i agree with monica, both recipes are a little off compared to what brazilians cook everyday. and “ailicoyote”, although brazil is huge, i’ve never heard of mushrooms in rice, that sounds really foreign to me.
and about the author of this article calling rochelle “chica”, that’s hilarious!

By: ailicoyote

ailicoyote — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:44:27 +0000

People often don’t realize that Brazil is a very large country (larger than the continental US) with regional variations just like the US. There are many, many different ways to make Brazilian beans and rice.

By: Brasileiro

Brasileiro — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:19:53 +0000

The word “chica” shows your ignorance about our country. We don’t speak Spanish and most of us hate it.