Maria's Cookbook

Empadão de atum is the weeknight hero of Portuguese home cooking: canned tuna and vegetables under a blanket of nutmeg-scented...

Some days the craving for home arrives with tides and salt attached. Growing up, my mother and grandmother’s seafood stew...

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

Torresmos are Portugal’s answer to the universal truth that fried pork belly makes people happy: marinated chunks — garlic, paprika,...

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