Winter Braises
Beef Braised in Barolo
Cold outside? Baby, come inside where there’s beef slowly braising in a heady mix of Italian red wine, garlic, tomatoes, thyme, and rosemary.
5 hrs 10 mins
Chocolate Cakes! Because…Why Not!
Flourless Chocolate Cloud Cake
This lofty cake is so crammed full of chocolate and butter and air, there’s no room for flour–although we made sure to leave space for ample swoops of softly whipped cream.
1 hr 15 mins
Chocolate Caramel Cake
For this stunning dessert, rich chocolate cake and salty-sweet caramel frosting collide to make a magnificent masterpiece.
6 hrs
Hershey’s Chocolate Frosting
Sometimes simpler is better. Proof? This classic chocolate frosting from the back of the tin of Hershey’s cocoa. We dare you to not just eat it straight from the spoon.
10 mins
Hershey’s Chocolate Cake Redux
Certain things in this world inspire lasting love. Like this cake. An old-fashioned American classic for a reason.
55 mins
The One’s Meal of the Week
Leg of Lamb with Moroccan Spices
This Moroccan-style feast from Lynn Rossetto Kasper requires nothing more than a little patience and a lot of wet naps.
15 hrs
Salt-Roasted Potatoes
This recipe turns out obscenely aromatic, ridiculously moist spuds the likes of which you ain’t ever seen before. And you thought potatoes were boring.
1 hr 25 mins
Green Beans Gremolata
An easy way to gussy up green beans and make them seem fancy without being fussy.
15 mins
Orange, Olive Oil, and Poppyseed Cake
We can’t stop singing the praises of this stunning dessert that tops a rich, citrusy olive oil cake with balsamic macerated strawberries and whipped cream. We bet you won’t be able to stop, either.
2 hrs
Hey, I’m David Leite
I’m a three-time James Beard Award-winning food writer, cookbook author, memoirist, podcast host, and publisher. I created this site in 1999 to help you find simple, quick, and wicked flavorful recipes. For the past 24 years, I’ve been cooking, teaching, and writing about all types of food, including those from my Portuguese heritage. Let’s eat! Vamos comer!
Portuguese Recipes
Christmas Eve Cod ~ Bacalhau da Consoada
A traditional recipe on Christmas Eve in Portugal, this dish of salt cod, potatoes, and cabbage is drizzled with a garlic oil and topped with hard-boiled eggs.
1 hr
Portuguese Fennel Soup
Fennel soup, or sopa de funcho in Portuguese, is a staple in Madeira and the Azores Islands. This recipe is full of fennel, pork, sausage, cabbage, and beans.
2 hrs
Portuguese Orange Olive Oil Cake
This classic Portuguese dessert with its tender crumb and citrus smack tastes as stunning as it looks. Swear.
1 hr 30 mins
Most Beloved Recipes
These are the most popular, most loved, and most made dishes over the past 25 years.
Roast Pork Butt in the Oven
This roast pork butt, coated in a simple rub of brown sugar, paprika, cumin, and red pepper flakes, is an incredibly easy recipe to make and yields enough pulled pork to feed a small army.
10 hrs
Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese Sauce
Is anything more soothing than standing before a burbling pot of Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese sauce? (Hint: Our answer is absolutely not.)
6 hrs
Batter-Fried Chicken
Proof that it doesn’t take buttermilk or an insufferably long overnight brine to make insanely tender, crazily crisp, gosh darn perfect fried chicken.
1 hr 30 mins
Jim Lahey’s No-Knead Bread
Behold, the no-knead bread recipe that incited an insurrection among home bakers everywhere.
15 hrs 30 mins
