Maria's Cookbook

Portugal's convent sweets are basically an entire dessert category built on egg yolks, sugar syrup, and nuns with a lot...

Dulce de membrillo is one of the Iberian Peninsula’s oldest sweets: quinces slowly cooked with sugar until they transform into...

Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá is the aristocrat of the thousand cod recipes — and one of the few with...

My husband likes to tease me that I fell in love with Alentejo bread before I fell in love with...

Cachupa is Cape Verde’s national dish, and cachupa rica is its Sunday best: hominy corn and beans slow-simmered with pork,...