Arroz doce is the dessert that measures a Portuguese cook: creamy rice pudding perfumed with lemon peel and cinnamon stick, enriched with egg yolks, and finished with cinnamon on top — traditionally in elaborate...
Feijoada de marisco flips Portugal’s famous bean stew toward the coast: instead of the pork-heavy classic, white beans simmer in a smoky sofrito and wine-laced seafood broth, then welcome shrimp, clams and squid in...
Queijadas de leite are the queijada family’s gentlest member: no cheese at all despite the name, just a silky milk custard — milk, eggs, sugar, a whisper of lemon — baked in a light...
This is my weeknight version of camarão à guilho — the wine-and-paprika take on Portugal’s garlicky shrimp. Where the classic keeps things ascetic (garlic, oil, lemon), this one deglazes the pan with white wine...
Canja de galinha is Portugal’s chicken soup — and Portugal’s answer to nearly everything: illness, heartbreak, cold weather, new babies, late nights. A clear, golden broth from a good hen, tiny pasta, shredded chicken...
Every Brazilian family barbecue has a bowl of this potato salad on the table, and once you try it you will understand why. Tender potatoes, boiled eggs and onion in a creamy dressing of...
Canjica is Brazil’s answer to rice pudding, made with white corn instead: dried kernels simmered in milk, coconut milk and condensed milk with cinnamon and cloves until sweet, creamy and impossibly comforting. It is...
Pudim de pão is Portuguese thrift at its most delicious: yesterday’s bread reborn as a silky baked custard pudding, scented with lemon zest and cinnamon and — in the best versions — studded with...
Açorda de camarão was my grandmother’s dish. She lived in the Alentejo, the homeland of all açordas, and when garlic and cilantro started simmering on her stove, the whole house knew what was coming:...
Papas de sarrabulho is not a dish you ease into — it is Minho’s boldest comfort food, a savory porridge of several meats thickened with cornmeal and enriched with cooked pork blood, warmed with...
