With the biggest sporting event coming home to where it spiritually belongs in exactly 8 days, Karla and I have decided to go back to our roots. For the next month we’ll be posting traditional Brazilian recipes, and we’ll get started this week to get you all hyped up before kick off. I have forgotten a lot of things since I was a little girl but the World Cup is definitely not one of them. It is a memorable month of families coming together, missing school to watch the semi-finals and a lot of wonderful snack food. Palm heart or palmito in Portuguese is a very traditional vegetable normally added to salads in Brazil, it is basically the inner core of a palm tree and we buy them in brine. I can’t tell you how happy I was to find it in the supermarkets here when I first moved to the UK, they are tangy and very soft and I love them on a good empada.  It is not a spelling mistake, it is most certainly not the same as an empanada. No, it may look similar but it does not taste the same. It is hard to get the