May 2011 Archives

1 Year

Published by Eugenia 31 May 2011 - 17:59 in blog,life,Nadia,Travelling —

On Nadia’s birthday we thought about preparing something special. So we got organized before for 2 things:
1. a party in Piracanga with some very nice families/couples that we like to hang out with. The party took place with about 3 days before the actual birthday.
2. a little trip in Rio de Janeiro on May 15th (her birthday)

The pary was very nice, the chosen location was actually our house’s veranda . The food was mostly vegetarian, having here and there some Romanian specificity, and all the babies including Nadia enjoyed the cake and popcorn. I want to thank again Laura for the help given in preparing the wonderful pÃ£o de queijo and the tasty beans.

The trip to Rio brought Nadia some hours on the famous Copacabana Beach, walking trips in the city, a small wandering in some favella looking for the train that was supposed to take us to the big statue of Jesus (which we didn’t manage to see in the end), a climb on the Sugar Loaf and almost a helicopter ride that we missed by a little bit.

Both events found us besides Nadia kissing her and loving her as much as possible. It was very beautiful and she was sensational, beautiful, curious and glutton.

We love you so much and we thank you for the happiness you show and you send us!
We wish you many many years at least as happy and joyful as your first one. We kiss you thousands of times!

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Easter in Piracanga

Published by pedro 10 May 2011 - 22:30 in blog,hobbies,Piracanga,Travelling —

In the last 6 years we spent Easter either with our families (3 times), either traveling and enjoying holidays with old or new friends (3 times).
Every time we were away from Romania we were prepared to have on the Easter lunch some of the Romanian traditional food, especially red eggs and “cozonac” – a sort of a sweet bread with raisins, nuts and cocoa.

This year, for Easter we were enjoying a brunch at Casa Piracanga (owned by the French couple Didier and Sandrine) with our Romanian friends, Laura and Florian and their gorgeous Sasha, Olivia and Marcello, a beautiful mixed couple (Olivia is Spanish and Marcello is Brazilian), Olivia’s mum – Vallery – and 4 of Olivia’s friends that came from Spain, Sam and Liz, another beautiful mixed (Sam is Lebanese and Liz is American).

Every person/couple came with some traditional food of their own cuisine. Finally, the table was full of extremely good things.
We prepared the red eggs, fresh cheese, oriental salad, mayonnaise and a fruit cake.
Laura and Florian brought the famous Romanian eggplant salad, tomatoes salad and cozonac.
Sam and Liz cooked many chapati, baba ganoush and some sauce of many different herbs which was served on hot chapati.
Didier and Sandrine took care of the fresh home-made bread and also some sweet magdlennes.
The Spanish troupe came with some tortillas con patatas, gazpacho and toppings for gazpacho.

The whole food was delicious and everybody enjoyed the tastes and flavors along with many smiles and nice discussions. Nadia and Sasha tasted almost all the food, of course in smaller quantity then their parents .

Of course we missed some other traditional food that we were not able to cook here, but we are hoping next year we will be together with our families and solve this tasting issue.

We hope that every one of you had an amazing time on Easter with the ones you love and cherish. For sure we did and we are very happy about it even if we are writing about it 3 weeks later. What can you do, time goes by at a different pace around here