Maria's Cookbook

I picked up msemen from a Moroccan neighbor two houses down who used to trade me flatbreads for my broa...

Queijadas de leite are the queijada family’s gentlest member: no cheese at all despite the name, just a silky milk...

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

Eggplant barely shows up in traditional Portuguese cooking, which always struck me as a shame given how much I love...

Almejas a la marinera are Galicia’s clams “sailor style”: opened in a sauce of onion, garlic, paprika, wine and tomato,...