Traditional food
Posts about Traditional food
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Winter in Portugal: where to find snow, mountains and quiet villages
Portugal has a reputation for beaches and mild weather, which is fair for about nine months of the year. What fewer visitors realise is...
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Traditional Portuguese food: the dishes worth ordering
Portuguese cooking is not as widely known as French, Spanish, Italian, Greek or Turkish. It is a bit like Peruvian food a decade or...
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The good old Portuguese soup: caldo verde, sopa da pedra and sopa de peixe
Soup is one of the oldest dishes there is, going back to prehistory, and in Portugal it has never gone out of fashion. The...
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Marmalade: a bit of Portugal in every jar
Marmalade or marmelada? Both. English marmalade inspired Portuguese marmelada. Or was it the other way around? Either way, marmelada is to the Portuguese what...
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Portuguese chouriço is flaming good!
You may already know the smoked sausage made by our neighbours across the border, chorizo. The Portuguese version is chouriço, and we say it...
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Pastel de Belém: the ultimate pastel de nata
The pastel de Belém is in a league of its own, and it really does not compare to an ordinary pastel de nata. Had...