I have a small collection of Mediterranean dips at this point on the blog, and every so often someone asks me why I would add another smoky, garlicky vegetable dip to the pile. The...

I already have my Easy Paella Recipe (recipe on the site) for the nights I want the classic rice version, but fideuà is what I make when I want that exact same seafood-and-saffron mood...

Kibbeh comes in more shapes across the Levant than I could ever catalog here, from torpedo-shaped fried kibbeh to raw kibbeh nayyeh, but the version I make most at home is kibbeh bil sanieh,...

Every January, my grandmother's kitchen in Trás-os-Montes smelled like woodsmoke for weeks. That's when the pig was slaughtered and the smokehouse filled with butelo, fat little sausages of smoked pork stomach stuffed with rice,...

Salpicão de Vinhais is one of the great cured meats of Trás-os-Montes, a whole pork loin marinated in wine and garlic, stuffed into casing, then smoked slowly over oak for weeks in a village...

This is old-fashioned, farmhouse breakfast food, the kind my grandmother made on cold mornings before school with whatever cornmeal was sitting in the pantry. It's Portugal's answer to sweet polenta or grits, cooked low...

If there's one dish that proves you don't need a long ingredient list to make something unforgettable, it's tortilla española. Just potatoes, onion, eggs, and really good olive oil, turned into something Spain has...

Arancini are what happens when leftover risotto gets a much more exciting second life: rolled around a cube of melting mozzarella, breaded, and fried until the outside shatters and the inside stays creamy. They're...

This is the soup I make when I want something warm and completely undemanding: a handful of pantry staples, one pot, and twenty-five minutes between me and dinner. Turkish red lentil soup shows up...

Portugal's convent sweets are basically an entire dessert category built on egg yolks, sugar syrup, and nuns with a lot of free time, and papos de anjo is one of the funniest-named members of...