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,...
Malta doesn't get nearly enough attention on food blogs, which is a shame, because its bread culture is one of the most distinct in the Mediterranean. Ftira is a ring-shaped, dimpled flatbread with a...
I know I'm the Portuguese one around here, but my husband spent a summer working in Livorno before we met, and cacciucco is the one dish he still describes with the kind of reverence...
My avó on my mother’s side was born and raised in São Miguel, in a village not far from Furnas, and every summer of her childhood meant the smell of sulfur and the sight...
