Green Beans with Minas Cheese and Brazil Nuts

Summer in Rio is no joke, with temperatures normally in the thirties and sometimes getting up to above 38°C. People are exercising at the beach, the scent of coconut water covers the boardwalk, football is at the Estádio do Maracanã and then more football on television. People are packing their cangas (a cloth that serves as a beach towel), their sunglasses and sandalias havaianas (our version of flip-flops) and heading straight to the beach. This is my Rio, the perfect time t