Katia´s Blog

Tips: Restaurant Zuca

2011-07-03T13:05:00.000-07:00

Today I went to visit the restaurant called Zuca. I wanted to know it a while ago and today I had the opportunity.

I've decided to try the lamb. Had researched on the Internet and was intrigued by what I read. So today, when I had the order ready.

The menu had several nice things and I intended to try the option of tasting small portions of 7 different dishes. But I found a little expensive to risk.

I asked for input bundle of goat and nuts. Four bundles of delicious, served with white sauce (not identified the flavor) and half sweet. Very good, good start.

Now let's get to it: Lamb chops with mashed potato and carrot. Very tasty sauce, delicate and tasty. I'm suspect, because I love yellow sweet potato, but still I say, was delicious, and matched perfectly with the lamb. I just think that food could be hotter, it was warm to cold. But overall, note 10. Too bad I could not take pictures (without battery cell), because the presentation was divine.

My husband called the San Pietro with mushroom risotto, he highly praised the risotto, the fish he said was ok but nothing exceptional! My brother asked squid, and commented that it was with low salt for his taste, but we will give a discount because he likes everything with waaaay too salt.

Reasonable prices, good service, attentive waiters. Calm and pleasant. I recommend!

Rua Dias Ferreira, 233 b - Leblon Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Av das Americas, 4666 - Lj 147 - Barra - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Corn flour & guava cake recipe.

2011-05-23T19:02:00.000-07:00

Katia&Juju's Recipe.

Ingredients:

2 eggs
50g margarine
1 & half cup of sugar
1 cup of corn flour
1 & half cup of flour
1 tablespoon of baking powder (ferment)
1 cup of milk
Pieces (strips) of guava

Preparation

Mix the butter and sugar well. Then add the egg and beat. Then put the flour, corn flour and milk and beat until it becomes a smooth dough. Finally add the yeast (ferment).

Place in a greased and pre-order over the place guava strips on top. The thinner, the less they will sink to the bottom of the pan.

Bake.
Enjoy with a fresh coffee!

Bon Apetit!

2011-05-23T18:52:00.000-07:00

Educating is harder every day! Children today are much smarter than in our time, they have access to varied stimuli very early, some even in pregnancy. I think everyone agrees that they are developing every day earlier, and it seems that we are not ready.

It takes a diplomacy and tons and tons of patience. And not just educate and discipline, but also give comfort and attention, play with them ... wow!
But if you're willing to devote time and energy, believe me: it's worth!

Good week!

Thoughts

2011-05-21T17:44:00.000-07:00

Justify a wrong action with the excuse "everybody does it" is settled down in mediocrity. It takes courage to go against the stream.

Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

2009-11-04T06:54:00.000-08:00

The suit

2009-08-02T18:18:00.000-07:00

I was looking at the interview of Michael Phelps on tv, during the Roma World Swiming Championship. He was talking about the new suit being used in competions. I didn´t understand at that time what was the issue, but later on I discovered what was that all about. Could not say that I totally disagreed with him, after all peaple are obessed with the suit, and leaving the swiming aside. But I think that the change is inevitable, with the offering of new technologies it will become more and more common to reach the controversy of what is ok and what is not. And of course it will call attention of swimmers, some positively and othe not much.

The good new is that Cesar Cielo brought two gold medals for Brazil. Congratulations Cesar!

My everyday Coffee

2009-07-26T05:49:00.000-07:00

Everyday after lunch I used to drink a fresh and delicious coffee, not those machine one´s, but a delicious coffee made right here at office. The famous Marcia´s, Claudia´s, Teresa´s, and Babe´s coffee. I was addicted to this coffee, but unfortunatelly we had to stop doing it due to a layout restructuring. Yeah guys! It´s sad but the truth is that the ritual I have of everyday go pick up a little coffee and on the way back stop to chat with friends, maybe eat a cookie or cake, and gossip a little bit finished. Snif snif. It was not a simple coffee, it was a moment of relax, where each of us play with each other. But it´s over! I´m nostalgic because of that. Need to creat a new ritual very soon to break the routine a little or to avoid us from getting eye sick looking at the computer all the time. Rsss

Out for a while

2009-07-10T17:55:00.000-07:00

The end of the week arrived, and I hope I can rest and relax a little bit. What a week! Personal problems mixed with lots of work at office. Wow! That´s just some of the reasons I didn´t write anything this week. But I´m going to change that.

My plans to read more this year are not going well. I started to read the Eric Clapton´s biografy, but read just 15 minutes and didn´t touch the book anymore, huahuahua. Well, if read is not a option I will try movies. Latelly I´m interested in the classic ones: Gone with the wind (saw last week), Singin in the rain, Shall we dance, etc.

Ops, there is a good one on TV right now! Bye bye

2009-07-06T18:45:00.000-07:00

My thoughts are derailed: worries, anger, chock, surprise, etc. Today´s news hit my head like a bomb. Now I can´t sleep. Why some people don´t care?

Hope there is justice.

2009-07-02T16:00:00.000-07:00

I finally found the text I was looking for. Enjoy!

Closing cyles.

"One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through.Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents’ house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden?You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won’t take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that.
But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back.Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it maybe!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else. Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the ideal moment. Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person. Nothing is irreplaceable. A habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important. Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are."

There is a lot of discussion of who is the real author of this text, some says it’s from Paulo Coelho, some says it’s from Gloria Hurtado, and other says it’s from Sonia Hurtado. Well, I’m not sure, but whoever it is, THANKS! It’s a very good text, I received it on a delicate moment of my life and it opened my eyes.

News

2009-07-02T04:06:00.000-07:00

Sad day.
School bus crashes and kill 4 children (Rio de Janeiro).
That's the reason I don't want to put my daughter to go by Van to school.
Driver is arrested.

http://oglobo.globo.com/rio/transito/mat/2009/07/01/motorista-de-van-que-matou-quatro-criancas-na-linha-vermelha-sera-indiciado-por-homicidios-756617082.asp

2009-07-01T14:40:00.000-07:00

Felling tired, accounting close approaching to the end, and Forecast beginning. UFA!
Need to sleep and rest more. Hopefully tomorrow we will have sun, I’m tired of winter. We are in the middle of the year, wow! Time really flies.

Speaking of time, don’t have much right now. Have to go now!
See you!

Beginning

2009-07-01T04:20:00.000-07:00

Well, I was trying to find the translation to a text that I like very much, so I can post here, but didn't find any. I didn't give up, and as soon as I find something I will put here.

Right now I'm beginning my day at work, hoping everything goes right and that I don't have any unpleasant surprise.

As I was not able to put the ABOUT ME in english without changing my Portuguese version, I will write here something here.

I'm Brazilian, as you can see, so don't expect a perfect english! heheheh I'm an accountant, wife and mother. My family is the most important thing to me. My other passions are: Movies, surf on the net, and coffee (lots of coffe!).

Welcome!

2009-06-30T16:34:00.000-07:00

Well, this is my first posting. I hope the first of many others...
Please be free to comment and give suggestions!

Katia