There's a running joke in my house that every culture has its own version of "throw the whole pantry and half the freezer into one pot and simmer it into a Sunday feast," and...

Northern Spain and northern Portugal share a border and, it turns out, a real weakness for a slow-cooked pot of beans and pork, so fabada asturiana felt like family the first time I made...

I have made a lot of fried cheese on this site, from my Azorean queijo São Jorge (recipe on the site) to the little Greek tiropitakia and peinirli I already have up, but I...

This is not a Portuguese recipe, and I will be upfront about that, but I married into a family that loves Italian food almost as much as they love mine, and orecchiette alle cime...

Spain and Portugal argue about a lot of food, but empanadas are where I think Galicia and my own country actually agree on the concept, we just took it in different directions. My empada...

Every time I make a Moroccan meal at home, whether it is my chicken bastilla or a big pot of harira (recipe on the site), I try to put together a small spread of...

People always assume that if you want a red wine drink in Spain, you order sangria, but ask anyone actually living there on a hot afternoon and they will tell you it is almost...

Kleftiko translates roughly to "stolen meat," and the story behind the name is one of my favorites in Greek cooking: it supposedly comes from the klephts, mountain bandits of Ottoman-era Greece, who would slow-cook...

Pastitsio is what happens when Greece and Italy sit down at the same table and Greece insists on adding cinnamon, and honestly, Greece is right. I owe this one to a neighbor two houses...

We had a Greek family two doors down from us for years, and it was their mother, Despina, who first put a square of moussaka in my hands and told me, not asked me,...