Maria's Cookbook

By August our garden is embarrassingly overrun with tomatoes and cucumbers, more than any one family should reasonably need, and...

Baba de camelo — “camel drool” — wins the prize for Portugal’s least appetizing name attached to one of its...

Töltött paprika — Hungarian stuffed peppers — is grandmother food in the best sense: sweet peppers filled with seasoned pork...

Feijoada is Iberian bean-and-pork wisdom perfected: white beans and a full cast of pork — shoulder, bacon, smoked sausage, maybe...

Feijoada transmontana is the feijoada of my family’s homeland — Trás-os-Montes, where winters are long, smokehouses are serious, and bean...