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Easy Pot Roast, Potatoes, and Vegetables

This classic, hearty, homey dish—just like something your grandma used to make but better—is an ideal one-pot meat-and-potatoes meal. Includes oven as well as slow cooker instructions.

4 hrs


New Cooking Class

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I hope you’ll join me on Sunday, December 8th, from 2 to 5 PM EST for a LIVE online baking class. I’ll be making one of the world’s most beloved sweets: the pastel de nata!

In this fun class, you learn how to layer and roll the dough to make that perfect spiral shell, cook the custard, fill the shells, and bake the tarts to get that gorgeous brown mottling on the top.

David Leite

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!

Most Beloved Recipes

These are the most popular, most loved, and most made dishes over the past 25 years.

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Pasta with Butter and Parmesan

Whether you’re five or fifty-five, sometimes nothing is more satiating than a plate of spaghetti with butter and cheese.

20 mins

Julia Child’s Coq au Vin

Coq au vin, aka chicken soused in wine, is a French classic that exists in countless incarnations. This rich, soulful riff is from Julia Child.

1 hr 30 mins

Coca-Cola Brisket

This heartachingly tender brisket draws on just four ingredients, including a can of Coca Cola. Tasting is, truly, understanding.

3 hrs 25 mins

Applesauce Bread

Comfort finds us in unexpected ways. Thank goodness for that. And thank goodness for this not-too-sweet, subtly apple-y, kid-friendly quick bread.

1 hr 30 mins


Portuguese Recipes

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Portuguese Coconut Custard Tarts

Sweet custard flecked with flakes of coconut are what you can expect from pasteis de coco, a dessert classic from Portugal.

45 mins