Maria's Cookbook

Massa sovada is the soft, faintly sweet bread my grandmother made on São Miguel for every holiday and most Sunday...

If you have ever been to a Portuguese festa, you know farturas by smell before sight: long ribbons of choux-style...

Tirokroketes are Greece’s golden cheese croquettes: creamy feta and sharp kefalotyri bound with herbs, rolled, breaded and fried until the...

Arroz de cabidela is Portugal at its most fearless: chicken braised in wine and garlic, rice cooked in the resulting...

Bolo de laranja is the cake by which Portuguese home bakers are quietly judged: intensely orange, impossibly moist, and served...