Desserts

Aveiro is the lagoon town up north with the striped moliceiro boats and the candy-colored houses, and its claim to...

Every Portuguese grandmother has an opinion about pao de lo, and every region thinks its version is the only correct...

My mother-in-law is from a village outside Lagos in the Algarve, and the first time she brought a morgado de...

Portuguese convent desserts are almost all built from the same short list of ingredients, egg yolks, sugar, sometimes almonds, and...

Greek food has actually gotten pretty solid coverage on this site, but I realized I'd never posted loukoumades, which is...

Filhós are the grand matriarchs of the Portuguese Christmas fry-up: pillowy rounds of orange-and-brandy scented dough, stretched thin by hand,...

I cannot believe it has taken me this many years on the blog to finally write down a proper pastéis...

Rabanadas are the smell of a Portuguese Christmas Eve: thick slices of day-old bread soaked in warm cinnamon-lemon milk, dipped...

My husband still brings up a slice of this cake we had on a trip along the French Riviera years...

Salame de chocolate is the dessert every Portuguese child learns first: crushed Maria biscuits folded into rich chocolate, rolled into...