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🇬🇧 Cultural nomadism - a lifestyle

We can move from a place to another for various reasons. One of them is to know better other cultures, to become a global citizen. Other is also cultural, when you move from a place with very limited cultural options to another with more resources on the matter. I experienced both. Culture was and is my fuel. I was born in a middle-sized city in Brazil, called Montes Claros. Once I read a quote from Plato about global citizenship and I desired to be a global citizen. I loved to read, to listen to some music and to see movies - the cultural options more accessible in that city. Some months after I move to Uberlândia - other middle-sized city, bigger than Montes Claros -, I started using the internet. It was 1999. Through Napster (do you remember it?) I discovered music (and advertising videos) from the whole world! I had a teacher who worked renting movies, that time, and she had movies which were not american blockbusters. Can you imagine my happiness walking through those corridors ...
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Savouring the world: Brazilian Salpicão - A traditional holiday chicken salad

With the holiday season approaching, today I'm sharing a recipe traditionally served during the year-end festivities in Brazil, so you can enjoy a little taste of Brazilian culture wherever you are in the world.

This is a version made by my family, which means the recipe is exclusive to the Nycka the Nomad blog. Its reproduction, in whole or in part, is prohibited.

The recipe is called Salpicão, a Brazilian dish somewhat similar to a chicken salad.

Ingredients

  • 1 whole smoked chicken (you can use a regular roasted chicken or smoked chicken breast instead, but the flavour experience will be different).

  • 300 g cooked ham

  • 300 g raisins

  • 1 can of pineapple in syrup (approximately 820 g net weight, including syrup; 400 g drained weight).

  • 3 green apples

  • 1 can of sweetcorn (approximately 280 g net weight; 170 g drained weight).

  • 250 g mayonnaise

  • 1 carton (200 g) of table cream (or an equivalent cooking cream available in your country)

Method

  1. Shred the chicken.

  2. Chop the remaining ingredients into small pieces.

  3. Combine all the ingredients with the table cream and mayonnaise.

  4. Transfer everything to a transparent serving dish or platter and decorate as you wish.

As I mentioned, this is a family version of the recipe. In my family of origin, eating vegetables was never really a habit, although it is something I enjoy and make a point of doing nowadays.

So, decorating the dish with lettuce leaves or adding fresh sliced mushrooms, small broccoli florets, grated carrots, and other vegetables could be a lovely way to enrich the recipe.

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Nycka Nunes

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Location: Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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