Poland takes mushrooms seriously — foraging is practically a national sport — and zupa grzybowa, the traditional mushroom soup, is where that devotion shows. Earthy, creamy and finished with dill, it is one of...

Mushroom and leek soup is the earthy member of my leek-soup rotation: mixed mushrooms browned properly with thyme, sweet leeks underneath, an optional splash of wine, and a finish of cream if the evening...

Some nights call for a meal that asks almost nothing of you and gives back plenty. Pan-cooked salmon over basil-and-lemon mashed potatoes is exactly that: two components, one pan and one pot, and a...

I met Kohlrouladen on a trip to Munich — a cozy restaurant on a side street, a menu I could barely pronounce, and a plate of cabbage rolls that instantly justified the whole vacation:...

Almejas en salsa verde are the Basque Country’s green-jacketed clams: steamed open in a parsley-loaded sauce of garlic, white wine and olive oil, lightly thickened so it clings to every shell. The salsa verde...

Almendrados are Spain’s ancient almond cookies — chewy, fragrant and naturally gluten-free, with a lineage running back through Moorish Spain, when almonds first became the soul of Iberian confectionery. The recipe is almost monastic:...

Salpicón de marisco — Spanish seafood salad — is what Spain’s coastal bars serve when summer demands something cold, briny and bright: crab, prawns and mussels tossed with crisp peppers and spring onion in...

Almejas con chorizo is the Spanish surf-and-turf logic at its finest: sweet, briny clams steamed open in a broth that smoky chorizo has already colonized with its paprika-red oils. Two loud ingredients, one very...

These are Portuguese clams in white wine with a twist of smoked paprika — a warmer, smokier cousin of the classic amêijoas à Bulhão Pato (whose purist garlic-and-cilantro recipe is also on the site)....

Chestnut soup runs deep in Trás-os-Montes, my family’s region — where chestnut groves shaped whole villages, and where the magusto (the November chestnut roast) is still practically a holiday. Before potatoes crossed the Atlantic,...