Freekeh Pilaf with Lamb (Levantine Smoky Green Wheat Pilaf)
I came to freekeh embarrassingly late, considering how much time I spend cooking with grains, but once I got my hands on a bag from a Middle Eastern market a couple towns over, it...
Hi, I’m Maria — born in a small village in northern Portugal and now cooking from my kitchen in the USA, where I live with my husband, our two kids and Max the dog. On Maria’s Cookbook I share the recipes I grew up with — from my Trás-os-Montes family table to my grandmother’s Azorean kitchen — along with Mediterranean favorites and dishes I’ve fallen in love with along the way.
I came to freekeh embarrassingly late, considering how much time I spend cooking with grains, but once I got my hands on a bag from a Middle Eastern market a couple towns over, it...
I first had skordalia at a Greek friend's Easter table, spooned generously next to fried salt cod, and I remember thinking it tasted like garlic bread had somehow become a sauce, in the best...
Walk along any Portuguese beach in the summer and you will hear it before you see it: a vendor with a cooler shouting "tremoços, tremoços!" over the sound of the waves. They are sold...
Eggplant barely shows up in traditional Portuguese cooking, which always struck me as a shame given how much I love the way it turns up in zaalouk (recipe on the site), the Moroccan cousin...
I will admit upfront that this one is not Portuguese, it is French, from a summer I spent with a friend outside Nice who cooked lunch every single day out of whatever the market...
French salads do not come up much on a Portuguese food blog, but after the ratatouille (recipe on the site) I posted from that same trip to the Riviera, it felt wrong not to...
By the time August rolls around, I am fully done turning on the stove for anything that takes longer than 10 minutes, which is exactly when vichyssoise earns its keep. I already have a...
I started building out a little Moroccan corner of this blog almost by accident, first chicken bastilla (recipe on the site), then harira (recipe on the site), then zaalouk (recipe on the site), and...
The walled town of Obidos, north of Lisbon, has turned a simple cherry liqueur into a full civic identity. You cannot walk its cobblestone streets without being handed a tiny chocolate cup of ginjinha,...
When I posted my recipe for Portuguese Piri-Piri Chicken (recipe on the site), half the comments were people asking where to buy the sauce, and the honest answer is: don't buy it, make it,...
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