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Brazilian Rice

     This one's the base of your average brazilian meal. "You'd get tired of eating anything if you ate it every day" this is proof that's not true. Pretty much everyone that has the habit of eating a normal lunch that I know from here eats this almost every single day, and I'm one of them, the key however is to make a good rice and also like, not eat JUST rice...

    With this portion you can serve up to [like 3 I think] people. It can take from 30 to 60 minutes [my guess]

Ingredients (portion for 3 - 4 people)

Rice: duh 1 cup (200ml)
Garlic: 3 - 4 cloves fun fact in portuguese we call these "garlic teeth"
Cooking Oil: idk a bit
Salt
Water
[Optional] Onion: 1/4

Making

Most people would start by washing the rice, but
turns out that if you buy some good quality rice
all you do that for is removing some nutrients
and minerals that are from harmless to even good
to your health. Mom still makes me do it tho

    0. Fill a kettle with water and leave it heating up, this will save time while you get other ingredients ready.

    1. Peel and chop the garlic into tiny little pieces, the smaller pieces tend to fry and burn before the bigger ones, so the more evenly chopped they are the less likely you are to get any of them uncooked or burnt

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    2. Put some oil on the pan and turn the fire on high. After it heats up for a bit, deploy the cut garlic and with a wooden spoon or other similar utensil spread iton the pan. Keep stirring the garlic around from time to time until you notice they start to golden.

    3. Once you do, put the fire on low and add the rice, then the water from the kettle. Add water until it's about the width of two fingers together above the rice line. Now you can turn the heat back up.

    4. Now you have to add salt to it, usually a little more than those spoons for stirring coffe should sufice, but add to it and do taste tests until you feel is just a little salty or you feel it's right.

    5. Last step guys! After some time the water should be below the rice line, when that happens turn the heat down and put a lid on the pan for 10 minutes, once that's up your rice is ready!

     You have now taken your first step through the culinary world. You have learned how with the right ingredients, something simple can become tasteful, the sustenance for the day, the very base brazilian meals are built upon.

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Egg alchemy

     Egg. One of the master volatile ingreedients. It can both be used as ingredient, be used as additional or be the main piece of small meals by itself.

Boiled egg

The simplest form of preparing an egg, all you need is water, eggs and time.

Fill a small pot with enough water to cover the eggs and heat it up. Once it's boiling put the eggs in and wait around 11 minutes and it is done!
You may want to leave it for less or more, depending on your egg rigidity preference
I have also heard that putting a tiny bit of vinager helps with peeling but honestly I never felt enough difference worth having to deal with vinager.

Great for starting your morning or adding to other meals, like noodles.

Fried egg

Now let's go with the fastest! and also a classic You need oil or butter and a frying pan.

Turn on the stove, put some oil/butter on the frying pan, just enough to coat how much the egg will take up and let the magic happen.
It is recomended you place a lid on the frying pan while it fries so you don't spill oil everywhere
If you like firmer yolk after it fries a little you can take a spatula and flip it over so it fries the yolk as well and you're done!

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One of my personal favorite uses for a fried egg is on sandwiches, rather just plain bread with an egg and cheese or adding one to a hamburger, egg goes really well with bread.

Scrumbled egg

Exactly the steps of a fried egg but you take a spatula and scrumble it until it becomes multiple nuggets of yolk and white. Also works good as a little scrumbled egg sandwich but I can't say about adding it to other things, it's more of a solo thing.

Simple Omlet

I have seen around on my peripheralpeople make some chef tier omlets, this is not it. It's the recipy I know for doing simple omlets so far. This one does pretty much require you to have some main ingredient other than just egg. It is most common where I'm from to use cheese and ham in it but you can put pretty much anything you want, personally I like to add a bit of onion to it as well, so let's go.

Start by preparing your fillings and put them aside. In a bowl add the eggs, 2 per person, and beat them up either with a hand beater or a fork if you got the skill, until it becomes a smooth yellow liquid. Add your fillings to the bowl. Heat up the frying pan and put in some oil or butter and pour the mixture on the pan and that's pretty much it, flip it when it's not liquid anymore and wait until it's done.

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Tomato-less Red Sauce

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Pancakes

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Carrot Cake

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