Last night was a special dinner for family. They have always been extremely supportive of my culinary adventures and often enjoy listening about my dinner parties as well as drooling over pictures of food I’ve served. I figured it was about time to have a party made especially for them and their friends because they are what inspired me to love being in the kitchen after all. Since Mardi Gras recently passed, I thought it was only fitting to throw a dinner party inspired by this festive celebration. Aside from New Orleans and the annual Mardi Gras parties that take place here in the United States, other countries around the world are celebrating too. My dinner party last night highlighted the food and fun of Brazil with a Brazilian Carnival Dinner in celebration of Mardi Gras!
To make my dinner even more special, FoodBuzz is featuring our Brazilian Carnival Dinner for their February 24×24 Food Event. The FoodBuzz’s 24×24 Food Event showcases food blog posts from 24 Foodbuzz Featured Publisher bloggers of 24 unique meals occurring around the globe during a 24-hour period. I was thrilled to be featured this month!
Individual Papaya Cream Cups
Brazilian Guarana Soda
Full Disclosure: As part of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program,
I received a stipend from FoodBuzz for hosting this event.
What an awesome spread of Brazilian food. I just went to a Brazilian bbq feast for my birthday last week, and had a sip of Guarana. Oh my, that stuff is super tasty…cookie gave me kicks for drinking it, too!
Hi! Love your post. Where did you buy the Brazilian Guarana Soda in Chicago? I would love to buy some.
What a great theme! I'm loving the shrimp and mango salad!
Congrats on the 24 x 24, you did a great job!
Love the recipes, but acually many of them are not Brazilian. Cheese arepas are Colombian and Carne Asada with Chimichurri is Argentinean.
Anonymous – you're absolutely right! The menu ended up being more of a mix of various Latin cuisines just as you mentioned (Columbian, Argentinean,Cuban, Mexican, etc.). I think of the dishes, the Portuguese Linguica, Guarana soda and Papaya Cream were the ones that represented Brazil most of all.