I Love Pao de Queijo

(but I don't know how to make them)

I just bought sunflower oil and sour tapioca flour.

What to do?

http://www.bid.mg.gov.br/ARQUIVOS/Image/Culinaria/pao_de_queijo.jpg

http://www.kalinka-im-netz.de/ljfotos/pdq1.jpg

1 xícara de leite
1 xícara de água
3 ovos
1/2 xícara de óleo
1 colher de chá de sal
1 pacote de polvilho (475g.)
200 gr. de queijo parmesão ralado

??

ovos, I am thinking, means egg? (s?)

from donabrazil.com:

Cheese rolls (Pão de Queijo) are eaten all over Brazil at breakfast or as a snack. Traditionally, these are made of cassava flour instead of wheat flour. Except for that, these cheese rolls consist of eggs and cheese. If served warm, these rolls are crispy from the outside with soft dough on the inside.

Ingredients

* 500 gr (1.1 lb) of fine cassava flour
* 1 large cup of milk
* 4 tablespoons of sunflower oil or soya oil
* generous pinch of salt
* 4 eggs
* 200 gr (7 oz) of grated hard cheese (like Parmesan)

Preparation
Preheat oven at 180˚C (gas 4-5 or 350°F).

Sieve your cassavaflour if it is not fine. Bring the milk with the oil and the salt to a boil in a pan. Add the cassava flour while mixing. Allow to cool after it is mixed well. Next, stir in the eggs one by one and then the cheese. Mix well.

Grease your hands with some sunflower oil and form the dough into small balls. Put these in the oven on a non-sticking baking sheet. Bake for 25-30 minutes. The rolls smell nice when ready. To be sure, test for doneness with a fork: if it comes out clean the cheese rolls are ready. Allow to cool sufficiently but serve warm.

My Brazilian coworker eats two of these every morning and she is very beautiful.

I just made them. They're decent -- I used Queso Iberico and a tapioca flour that resembled cornmeal. Next time I'm gonna have to look for something with a smaller grit b.c these are a lot like New England Johnnycakes, except cheesy. Or baked grits. Good, not great.

(I have a big crush on the checkout girl in the Brazilian market where I bought my supplies!)

Marry her! Then she can stay here!

AND MAKE YOU CHEESE ROLLS ALLA TIME YEAH!

i ate these every day in rio. nom nom.

Pao de queijo rules, especially when mega-fresh.

Careful when pronouncing pão (bread), which is nasalised. If you don't nasalise it sounds like pau, which means dick. Then again, the Brazilian checkout girl will probably find it endearing if you get it wrong.

But if she still marries you, knowing that you're a cheese-dick, well, that simplifies personal hygiene chores.

knowing that you're a cheese-dick

yes, it's good to get this kind of information out in the open as early on as possible.

That could be accomplished by affecting the "elephant walk" when first approaching your beloved.

can't find a proper "elephant walk" w/ google. Don't know where I learned about it, but it involves penis protruding from pants-zipper (trunk) and pants pockets pulled inside-out (ears). All the urban dictionary definitions involve a bunch of drunk guys walking in a circle with their thumbs up each others' butts, and how that's supposed to look like an elephant I don't know. Seems like a stretch.

I used to be a rugby wife and the rugby team did the elephant walk when they were drunk -- they walk in a procession holding each other's you-know-whats from behind. Oh god, I'm glad i'm not a rugby wife anymore.

Okay, here it is.
White-Eared Elephant

An indecent party-trick!

Back to the cheesy rolls.