
Rosa Shoel has been bringing the flavours of North-Eastern Brazil to farmers markets and events across Toronto. She uses locally-milled goma (tapioca or cassava starch), an ingredient traditionally used by the natives of the Brazilian Amazon, to make crispy, delicious and gluten-free crepes stuffed with a variety of locally-sourced, seasonal fillings.
The plate comes with 2 tapioca-flour crepes, one filled with carne seca, a Brazilian speciality of salt-cured & dried beef, cooked with spices and toped with aged Friulano (similar to Brazilian-style “Minas” cheese), the other stuffed with roasted local cherry tomatoes dressed with balsamic vinegar and cheese. The crepes are served with cassava fries, a spicy mayo and a mixed salad with passion fruit dressing.
$12
#GF #vegan option available
Mini cassava coconut cake with homemade groundcherry (physalis) ice cream
$5
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Rosa Shoel has been living in Toronto for more than 10 years. Well-studied in permaculture, she’s lived on organic farms, which have spirited her journeys through Ontario, Central America, The United States, and Cuba. Rosa considers herself a defender of healthy and sustainable nutrition and a conscious consumer.
Rosa contacted a community deep inside the Chapada Diamantina, a breathtaking national park in Bahia, to reconnect to her cultural roots and learn more about the cultivation, traditions and culinary aspects of the manioc/cassava. For three months, she rode around the Chapada Diamantina with the project of a short documentary Finding our Roots http://dozero.net/blog/ .
Now she is leaving to Europe to work with DOZERO.net project looking for more traditions and culinary techniques
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Every Friday The Depanneur is an ‘open mic’ night for culinary talent in TO, where we invite guest cooks, amateur or professional, to come and make their favourite dishes.
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