Profiteroles make a rich, elegant dessert. Light puff pastry is filled with vanilla bean ice cream and melted chocolate sauce is drizzled over top.
Welsh Cakes
The size of English muffins, these Welsh cakes are dense, slightly sweet, and packed with golden raisins. They’re perfect for breakfast or served with tea.
Truffled Egg Toast
Buttery, softly scrambled eggs arranged on toast and drizzled with fragrant white truffle oil. Sounds like supper to us.
Pan-Roasted Halibut, Chickpeas, and Chorizo
Pairing seafood with sausage is very Portuguese. Here seared halibut is matched up with a stew of Spanish chorizo, chickpea, and cabbage. Cilantro is on top.
Chocolate-Coconut Crepes
Lacy crepes, French pancakes, are filled with a creamy bittersweet chocolate sauce and topped with toasted coconut curls and softly mounded whipped cream.
Pot-Roasted Pork Loin with Fall Fruits
Pork loin is first brined then pot-roasted for maximum flavor. Fall fruits, including raisins, figs, apricots, and prunes, are stewed and added to the pot.
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.
Classic Roast Turkey with Giblet Gravy
We know, we know. There’ve been other recipes that promise you a “classic” roast turkey. But we really mean it. We doubt Martha could do it any better herself.
Pastel com Diabo Dentro
Tuna is marinated in peppers, garlic, and vinegar, sauteed with onions, and then tucked into pastry and fried. Oh yeah.
Meringue Kisses
Just like a chocolate kiss, sorta, except they’re ethereally airy with a slight shortbread crunch. Definitely still chocolatey, though.
Sopa Dourada ~ Portuguese Golden Soup
Slices of sponge cake are dipped in a sugar syrup, drizzled with a custard sauce, and sprinkled with cinnamon in this Portuguese Christmas tradition.
Peppercorn-Cilantro Root Paste
A classic Thai trick for imparting a lot of oomph without a lot of ingredients or expense.
Queijadas De Coco
Um creme cremoso salpicado de flocos de coco doce. Isso é o que você pode esperar de pasteis de coco, um clássico de sobremesa de Portugal.
Classic Sweet Pastry
This classic sweet pastry is made richer and sweeter than ordinary piecrust with the addition of egg and sugar.