Frango assado com piri-piri — Portuguese grilled chicken with bird’s-eye chili — is the dish that built a thousand churrasqueiras,...
Read moreDetailsI made this for the first time when I decided our dinner party rotation needed something that would actually make...
Read moreDetailsBacalhau à Gomes de Sá is the aristocrat of the thousand cod recipes — and one of the few with...
Read moreDetailsMigas alentejanas are the Alentejo’s answer to stuffing, polenta and Yorkshire pudding all at once: day-old bread soaked and slowly...
Read moreDetailsPaella needs no introduction, but it deserves an honest one: the Valencian rice masterpiece is less about a rigid ingredient...
Read moreDetailsTuna and spinach quiche is the sturdier, greener sibling of my plain tuna quiche (also on the site): the same...
Read moreDetailsThese are pork chops done the bifana way: marinated in white wine, garlic, paprika and lemon — the same soulful...
Read moreDetailsEaster quiche is the brunch centerpiece that solves the holiday morning: a flaky blind-baked crust holding a silky Gruyère custard...
Read moreDetailsCannelloni al forno is the dish I make when the weather turns and the table needs something bubbling: pasta tubes...
Read moreDetailsCaprese chicken saltimbocca is what happens when two Italian ideas hold hands: the prosciutto-wrapped elegance of saltimbocca and the tomato-basil-mozzarella...
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