Maria's Cookbook

Every year in Chaves, mothers and grandmothers gather around the masseira — the great wooden kneading tray — to make...

Lulas recheadas are one of those dishes that make guests think you trained somewhere fancy: squid tubes stuffed with a...

Honey cake is one of the oldest ideas in baking — honey was sweetening cakes long before sugar was affordable...

This is my weeknight-friendly roasted octopus — a paprika-and-garlic variation on the lagareiro theme (the purist polvo à lagareiro, all...

If rissóis de carne are the workhorses of the Portuguese party table, rissóis de camarão are the aristocrats: the same...