Main dishes

My avó grew up not far from Mirandela, and alheira was the smell of her kitchen more than any other...

Every year around the end of June my husband drags the grill out from the garage like it is a...

My mother-in-law is from a village not far from Coimbra, and the first time I sat at her table for...

I did not grow up eating espetada. My roots are Trans-os-Montes on one side and Sao Miguel in the Azores...

I came to freekeh embarrassingly late, considering how much time I spend cooking with grains, but once I got my...

I will admit upfront that this one is not Portuguese, it is French, from a summer I spent with a...

Ask anyone who grew up in Portugal what June smells like, and they won't say flowers. They'll say charcoal and...

The Algarve does not get nearly enough credit on this blog, mostly because my own family history runs through the...

Arroz de feijão malandrinho — “naughty” bean rice — is the soupy, soulful rice that Portuguese home cooking cannot function...

The bifana is Portugal’s greatest sandwich and one of its proudest street foods: paper-thin pork cutlets simmered in a garlicky...