Here in Brazil the first recipe sounds strange, because it´s not common for us, Brazilians to mix sweet ingredients with salty. The combination of sweetened breads with sliced bacon, sounds really strange to me!! Here we taste lots of fruits ´in nature `with it´s respective juices, but separated from any slices of bread! The other ones are ok, nice and pretty good. I´ll test them. But for me those Cheese treats reminds those Angel biscuits with cheese and sausage you posted months ago. I´d tried the recipe and it was great!!! Here in Brazil we have a nice and loved bread, all the Brazilians love´em! I´m talking about Cheese Bread ( Pão de Queijo ) a nice soft delicious balls made of cheese and manioc starch. I promise to send recipe of this delicate bread to you PJ, but i think will not be easy to find manioc starch ( we call it here POLVILHO ) in USA markets. It´s the same that occur here in Brazil with Maple Syrup, difficult to find here. Anyway, these cheese soft ball breads, are common here freezed and sold in plastic bags. All of Brazilians and tourists who come visit Brazil loves a lot, Pão de Queijo!!! Hope you could visit Brazil and taste one of them in future! Ricardo, we're in luck - I believe manioc and tapioca starch are the same thing, and we actually sell tapioca flour, which I believe is the same as tapioca starch, so... send the recipe, I'll look forward to seeing it and trying it. I'm going to make your strudel recipe with the challah dough soon, too - boy, that looks good. Happy holidays- be glad you're not here today, the temperature is -1°F! PJH

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