Being the national dish of Brazil, I was keen to try it while I was there but never got the chance - it is only served on certain days and I always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I still want to try feijoada because I don't think what I produced was very authentic. Basically I simmered a bunch of pork products (ribs, belly, sausages, chorizo, bacon bones) along with some beef jerky (the recipe called for salted pork but jerky is the best I could do). In another pot I boiled some onion, garlic and black beans (I could only find the salted kind so I rinsed the salt off them prior to cooking). When the beans and pork were ready I combined them on a plate and topped with a fried egg.
It photographed the same way it tasted - not great. I didn't mind it too much but Biggs found the tastes and textures to be pretty unpleasant.
To clarify, the ribs and belly were great. The chorizo was tasty. The bacon bones were intimidating and the broiled sausages were a very odd texture. The beef jerky was better not broiled but inoffensive compared to the sausages. The black beans were very very offensive. Thank god for the egg. I think I was expecting a French-style cassoulet or at the very least a 'wonderful Brazilian cassoulet' as the recipe book advertised.
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