Maria's Cookbook

Pork picadinho is the beef version’s equally beloved sibling (that recipe is also on the site): cubes of pork shoulder...

Chestnut soup runs deep in Trás-os-Montes, my family’s region — where chestnut groves shaped whole villages, and where the magusto...

Filhós are the grand matriarchs of the Portuguese Christmas fry-up: pillowy rounds of orange-and-brandy scented dough, stretched thin by hand,...

Tarta de Santiago is Galicia’s 16th-century almond tart, stamped — literally — with the Cross of Saint James in powdered...

This is the stew I crave on cold, rainy days: chunks of lamb marinated with garlic, bay and thyme, browned...