I moved from Portugal to Brasil in 1975 and a whole new food world opened to me... São Paulo had at the time 15 million inhabitants, of which 60% are Italian descendant, plus a huge community of Japanese and Arab descendants.
<br />You can find these communities in established areas where they have restaurants, supermarkets and shops with their own produce.
<br />I had only travelled in Europe at the time and knew little about food outside my little world. Oriental and Arab food were a totally mystery as was Brazilian food.
<br />The fruit and vegetable market were out of this world. Fabulous fruit, smelling of ripe fruit.I became totally addicted to avocados which I had never eaten before, huge and just ripe enough, with an outstanding taste.
<br />The curious thing about cooking with avocados then was that it was only used in smoothies and desserts. The savoury version would only appear in fancy restaurant menus.
<br />Avocado Cream quickly became my favourite dessert. It was a dessert everyone made at home, as easy as 1-2-3. I learned that recipe from my in laws cook. Today, you can find recipes for this dessert but they are mainly sweetened with concentrate milk which I don’t like.
<br />This is the 1975 version (am I getting old or what?!)
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