Festa Junina- Junine Party

   Finally it's June! The most waited month in Brazil 'cause in this month happens the most expected party of all the country (It's not carnaval, that happens only in some parts of the country and not everyone likes it). It's the Junine Party , known like St. John 's party too. It's a big church party comemorated in all the country to St. John, simulating a marriage in the countryside, I mean, simulating our reality by metropolitan's eyes ( what's completely diferent of the true). Well, what really matter is that this party is very important and shows brazilian's

countrified real culture ( almost 80% of the population) , if you want to

know how we live and think, visit a party in the northeast of Brazil or in 

the countryside of the states São Paulo, Minas, Goias, Paraná etc...

  The field is decorated with colorful flags ( St. Johns flags), bars/small tents, a 

empty space in the middle and a lot of tables around to the people eat and sit 

to see the dances and apreciate the bonfire that the people dance around it.

  The guests or the students (if the party is in a school) dress hick's costumes 

, it's a countrifield marriage, to dance Quadrilha, the dance simulating a marriage

in the poor backwoods of the northeast . The party itself is called Arraial, or

Arraiá as the hick accent says. I don't know where those habits are from, but I 

like them a lot.

  Before I forget it, the party is called Junine 'cause it can happen in any day of

the month of June.

   My family will do a party in our farm and after that I'll put some photos of it

made by me.

 Some important points about it:

• Every school have it's own Junine Party.
• The countryside culture is almost the of the northeast one, so a party created

there can be easily recognized here too, or even confused with one there and here.

The same saints, the same food, the same habits, the same music only the

amount of money is diferent between those two regions.

• Corn, Nuts, Cuzcuz, Warm Wine, Quentão are typical foods of this party.
• All the country celebrate it.
• At this time of the year, every brazilian market have it's own part 

dedicated to sell the typical foods as corn, nuts, paçoca, pé de moleque, fubá, 

sagú, pinga etc...

• Remember the typical sweets post? That applies here too.

Here some photos that I found at Google Images. ( Search you too: Festa Junina)

 The part in the market

 Pescaria-Fishing

 Costumes

 A HUGE party

 The flags

 Quadrilha, the dance

 Someone making Warm Wine

I promise it will be the last one! Let's eat in Brazil?- 3 Sweets

Sweets! 
  Hmmm, it's hard to find a brazilian who doesn't like our sweets, and in this post you'll see why.
        Brigadeiro- Condensed milk with chocolate and butter mixed in a pan and "rolled"(?) in granulated chocolate.
        Beijinho (little kiss): Condensed milk and butter with coconut mixed in a pan and "rolled" in coconut.
        Olho de Sogra: Is the same beijinho with a prune.
        Pé de moleque: Toasted peanut with sugar.
        Paçoca: Peanut smashed with sugar.
        Cocada: Coconut toasted or not baked with sugar.
        Sweet rice: Rice with sugar, condensed milk and cinnamon.
        Sagu: A typical brazilian seed boiled with weak wine and sugar.
        Pudim: Condensed milk wit eggs and sugar baked and ate like a cake.
        Cake: Yes, our cake is different.
        Quindim: Like a little pudim with coconut and more yolk
        Queijadinha: A little sweet cheese cake (no, not a cheesecake)
        Tapioca: A thin biju of tapioca filled with everything, generally with coconut and condensed milk.
        Cural: Corn threshed cooked with sugar.
        Pamonha: Cural in a corn stover and baked.
        Goiabada: Guava with sugar
        A looooot of thing I'll post some day.....

            Ps: Why toshe names? Because in the colonial era in Brazil, the madams used to make sweets to give as a gift for their friends representing things, like little kisses(beijinho).

 Queijadinha

 Cocada

 Goiabada

 Beijinho

 Brigadeiro (the most famous)

 Pé de moleque

 Paçoca

 Arroz doce

 Sagu

 Pudim

 Our cake

 Tapioca

 Cural

 Pamonha

 Olho de sogra

Queijadinha

Let's eat in Brazil-2

    Lunch--- Served  between 12:00 to 14:00 (if you are me, 16:00)
  I don't know how is lunch in the other countries in the world but I think you will find difference eatting here and eatting at Russia right after...
     Menu: It's the base, every plate must have these couple, it's like the foundation: Rice and Beans!
               The mix. When you already have rice and beans, you put what we call here "mix", it can be french fries with beef and salad, or potato salad with pancakes (I'll show how is our pancake) chicken, maionese, pasta, bananas, lasagna, feijoada (Hmmmm), cabbage, strogonoff, parmegiana and everything you imagine!!!
               Bevarages: Coke, Kuat, Guaraná, juice or beer for adults.
              
  Other ways: Sunday Lunch, that one you eat with your family in the grandma's house
     Menu: Macarrão com maionese ( pasta with maionese) and fried chicken
                     Almoço mineiro: Feijoada? Forget! The real brazilian lunch is the lunch from Minas Gerais, is the most delicious one and was the base for all the others in this country
                     Menu: Rice with Brazil (funny) Beans, all the parts of the pig fried (kidding) fried bananas, fried eggs, fried everything and all the rest you will see.
                    
                             Detail: I heard from my English teacher that in the U.S there isn´t so many pressure cookers, the thing is that here we use that for everything! is the most commom pan here!

 Our pancake filled with meat or chicken and tomato sauce

Ordinary lunch

 Simple Lunch

 Minas Lunch!!!!

 Healthy Lunch

 Restaurant Lunch

 Lasagna

 Strogonoff

 Minas Again!

 Complete feijoada!

 Again

I don't know what is that but I found....

Parmegiana!