Pork picadinho is the beef version’s equally beloved sibling (that recipe is also on the site): cubes of pork shoulder simmered with wine, smoked paprika, cumin and vegetables until the pot smells like a...

Picadinho — “little chopped pieces” — is tavern food from the old school: small cubes of beef simmered with wine, double paprika, bay and vegetables until the sauce thickens into something that demands rice...

White sangria is what we make in Portugal when the red version feels too heavy for the heat: crisper, lighter and dangerously refreshing, with melon and grapes instead of the usual orchard fruit. My...

In my family, sangria means summer: the big glass pitcher coming out for barbecues, the fruit macerating in brandy and Port while the grill heats up, and everyone hovering to steal a wine-soaked strawberry...

Feijoada transmontana is the feijoada of my family’s homeland — Trás-os-Montes, where winters are long, smokehouses are serious, and bean stews carry morcela, chouriço, pork belly and ribs without apology. This is the mountain...

Feijoada is Iberian bean-and-pork wisdom perfected: white beans and a full cast of pork — shoulder, bacon, smoked sausage, maybe a trotter for body — simmered with paprika and bay until the pot becomes...

Tarte aux myrtilles — French blueberry pie — comes from the mountain regions of France, where wild bilberries stain fingers purple every summer and every village bakery has its own version of this buttery,...

Patatas bravas are Spain’s fiercest potatoes: crispy golden cubes under a smoky, gently spicy tomato sauce — the one tapa found in every bar from Madrid to Barcelona, and the subject of a national...

Arroz de tomate is the rice Portuguese children grow up on and Portuguese adults never outgrow: creamy, tangy tomato rice that turns grilled fish, fried eggs or a simple bifana into a complete argument...

Cachupa pobre is the everyday soul of Cape Verde’s national dish: the same slow-simmered hominy corn and beans as its festive sibling cachupa rica (also on the site), but stripped to the essentials —...