Cachorro quente

cachorro quente

In Brazil, cachorro quente means hot dog. But cachorro means dog and quente means hot, so it would be dog hot.

The cachorro quente is folded like a dinner roll and it is filled with meat. Mostly people here have mustard, bacon, mayo, ketchup, peas, and corn on their hot dog. Be careful when you order one, they WILL put peas and corn on your cachorro quente.

A funny thing is that when you get it, they stab a fork into the top of the cachorro quente, and slide a serrated knife through the middle of the fork.
 
My dad has a xis (she-is) it is filled with meat, cheese, lettuce, onion, as always peas and corn, topped with a fried egg. The condiments are mustard, mayo, and ketchup.

So go to Santa Cruz AND GET A CACHORRO QUENTE
  

Dad had a xis (she-is)

The Farm

Yesterday I went to a farm. It was awesome!

Sehn Family Farm

This farm belongs to the Sehn family. They were the people I got the milk from at the feira!  They sell milk, butter, cream, veggies, and fruit.

They make the milk starting from the cows all the way to the bag. To get milk, the cows have to be pregnant or recently had a calf. 18 out of their 24 cows make milk. They have a big milk room when you go in there there is a big pasteurizing machine that heats the milk gently to kill the bacteria.

Here is where they milk the cows

After they pasteurize the milk they skim some for cream. They sell some cream and use some for butter. The butter and cream is yellow because the cows eat grass year round.

The Sehn family also grow fruits and veggies. On the way to the farm we saw two big cell towers , the phone companies pay them to have it there.The farm had a lot of corn, cucumbers, green sweet peppers, grapes, and jacuticaba. Jacuticaba are kind of like grapes, but you can't eat the skin. You suck out the insides. They also grow on the bark of a tree!

The Sehn farm was very fun The milk was the most fun part. If you go to Santa Cruz  find them at the feria. It will be a blast!

Pasteurization machine

The bagged milk

The butter

Prescott named this cow  Moo Jr.

The dad of  Moo Jr.- Big Moo

Moo Jr.

Grapes to make Juice

Jacuticaba fruit, it grows on the bark!

Green sweet peppers

Cell towers on the farm

Corn, Lettuce, cucumbers too 

The Market

 

I went to the market with no walls! In  Portuguese, it's called the feira. The feira is open all day Monday,Wednesday, and Friday. 

The feira has a lot of booths, 32 to be exact. All the workers are near-by farmers with some volunteers too. The feira sells a lot of stuff like meat, yummy baked goods, fruits and veggies, juice (like orange juice), and even milk!      

We met the family that makes the milk I'm holding in this video, and went to their farm. They are the Sehn family. I learned all about the how they make the milk. I will have a blog post about the Farm soon. See you later!

Back to Brazil!

I'm back in Brazil! These pictures are of me and Captain Dave in a Boeing 757 cockpit. I just landed in Miami on my way to Brazil.

Captain Dave is from Andover, MA. He learned to fly in Worcester. He flew in the Air Force, now he flies an American Airlines 757. 

Next Blog post will be about a market with no walls!

Hamburg - The Port

Hamburg has a river, the Elbe. The harbor has lots of boats. 

We took a boat around the harbor.

We saw a tall ship.

We got really close to this ship.

We went through the canals and a lock.

We passed a cruise ship.

And a container ship.

We went under the container ship!

Coming out from under the container ship.

We saw a riverboat

Finally, we saw tugboats. They pull and push the big ships in the harbor.

The Hamburg Zoo

We fed the elephants at the zoo today. They like carrots and apples. We saw lots of animals and played at the zoo too.

Gunde and Manfred's House

 

This is Gunde and Manfred's house where I am staying. They have a little fish pond in front of their house, just like I do!