Recipes, Cooking, and Baking Site
No-Fuss Pasta Recipes
One-Pot Tortellini with Prosciutto and Peas
25 mins
Spaghetti Carbonara
25 mins
Pasta with Butter and Parmesan
20 mins
Gnocchi with Gorgonzola Cream Sauce
25 mins
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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!
Autumn-Inspired Apple Recipes
Applesauce Bread
1 hr 30 mins
Pork Scallopini with Apples and Sage
30 mins
Hot Buttered Rum Apple Pie
4 hrs 25 mins
Apple, Parmesan, and Mixed Green Salad
10 mins
Weeknight Quick Recipes
You love to cook & feed the fam. But you don’t want to live in the kitchen. I’ve got your back.
Chicken Piccata
30 mins
Goat Cheese Quesadillas
40 mins
Five-Spice Grilled Pork Chops
1 hr 15 mins
Frito Pie
5 mins
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Most Beloved Recipes
These are the most popular, most loved, and most made dishes over the past 25 years.
Batter-Fried Chicken
1 hr 30 mins
Pastéis de Nata ~ Portuguese Custard Tarts
2 hrs 30 mins
Mussels in a Creamy White Wine Garlic Sauce
30 mins
Easy Slow Roast Pork Butt in the Oven
10 hrs
Portuguese Recipes
Portuguese Deep-Fried Green Beans
45 mins
Sonhos ~ Portuguese Doughnuts
1 hr
Portuguese White Gazpacho with Crab
30 mins