long time no see

yesterday while i was looking for a place to eat for dinner, i came across a brazilian steakhouse. so of course i had to try it. now i'm no pro when it comes to eating and critiquing food, but i do love visiting churrascarias (an art i learned from my dad) so i decided to pay the $48 and see what it had to offer.

one of my favorite meat selections at a churrascaria is the chicken heart. while i was waiting to be seated, i asked the maitre d if the restaurant served any (though it wasn't on the advertised menu). he said no. i immediately dropped the highest grade possible from an A to a B. i got seated, and he asked me what i wanted to drink. guarana, fool! he said there was none. C. sigh. $48 dollars and i wasn't going to have chicken hearts nor a can of guarana. not even covi or brazilian collard greens. :(

the picanha wasn't great. the ribeye was better. you can't have your picanha be worse than your other meats! sigh. 

a small but essential detail in cooking brazilian steak is the salt. how and when the salt is applied to the meat makes such a huge difference in the taste of the meat. i was so sad yesterday because it tasted like they used regular old table salt. novilhos wasn't doing well in my books.

their best cuts in my opinion were the beef rib and top sirloin. i stuffed myself with the cuts i did enjoy, ate my fill of feijoada and farofa (which they prepared with weird stuff in it), and left with a very full stomach. then i said goodbye to novilhos. it was still much better than eating fast food for dinner.

it's independence day tomorrow! i'm leaving tonight. whoo four day weekend. 

i've been staying at a hilton the past two weeks. the rooms are huge!