Traditional Melosa Algarve Honey & Medronho Liquor
Melosa is one of those classic Algarve liquors, made from medronho brandy mixed with honey. Medronho brandy is…
Portuguese Caramel Condensed Milk Mousse • Baba de Camelo
Ohhh another dessert that’s deeply tied to the Portuguese calendar is the “baba de camelo” (translated to droll…
Portuguese Melted Cheese & Suckling Pig Toast
What do you do when you’ve got leftovers from a beautiful, golden, slow-roasted portuguese style suckling pig (leitão…
Easy Algarve Style Tomato Salad
There’s something about a proper Algarvian tomato salad that just hits differently. I eat this all year round,…
Whole Apple Cinnamon & Brown Sugar Cake with Peels
So today I have something really special for you, a cake that looks and smells absolutely incredible, and…
Crispy Portuguese Codfish Fritters • Pasteis de Bacalhau
Who doesn’t love a good pastel de bacalhau? These are a staple of Portuguese life, the kind of…
Japanese Style Crispy Green Bean Tempura
So, how about kicking things off with a fusion that just makes all the sense in the world,…
Moist & Rustic Carrot Cake with Pumpkin Walnut Jam
There’s something about a good carrot cake that just hits different, you know? This one is moist, fluffy,…
Easy & Crispy Cocoa Shortbread Cookies
These chocolate cookies, well cocoa cookies, but if you add sugar and butter to cocoa you get…. chocolate!!!!…
Easy Portuguese Roasted Green Pepper Salad
There’s something about roasted peppers that just makes everything better. Whether you’re putting together a quick dinner or…
Simple & Fluffy Portuguese Vanilla Cream Cake
This is what happens when you have a food blog, you become the official family baker hahaha. My…
Traditional Algarve Carob and Almond Tart • Tarte de Alfarroba
Here is one of those sweets that is as typical of the Algarve as the sunshine itself (yes…