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Hi All! I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day Weekend.  I spent mine mostly relaxing and exploring more of New York.  I’ve decided to explore this magnificent city neighborhood-by-neighborhood, one each month.  I usually feel overwhelmed when I’m out and about, because there’s so much to see and do!  I know that I’m missing…

Hi Friends! It is the season for Festas do Espirito Santo all across the Azores and throughout Portuguese communities here in the U.S.  Festas do Espirito Santo translates to Festival of the Holy Spirit. Growing up in Idaho in our Portuguese community, I looked forward to the week-long celebration of the Holy Ghost.  There were…

Hi All! I hope your weekend has been going well!  Mine has been very relaxing, and I’ve been enjoying the nice weather.  This weekend I made my Grandma Teodora’s carrot cake.  Now this certainly isn’t a Portuguese recipe nor an original recipe from my grandma, but she made this carrot cake quite often growing up…

Hi All! I hope everyone is having a great week so far!  Here in NY, it’s finally feeling like spring, and I celebrated it in such a wonderful way today.  At work, we had a Spring Outing, and we spent it at the New York Botanical Garden.  It was so beautiful, peaceful, and exactly what…

Hi All! Back at it again with the bacalhau!  My first bacalhau recipe was nearly a year ago, which is just crazy how time goes by.  As I had mentioned in that post, there are hundreds of recipes for bacalhau, and I’ll be including two of them for this project, and ultimately, in the cookbook. …

Hi Friends! I hope everyone had a great weekend and is having a great start to the week!  I spent this past weekend watching one of my favorite artists perform-Brandi Carlile.  I first saw her perform in Boise, when I was in college, and I was taken aback at how great she was!  I’ve been…

Hi All! I hope everyone had a lovely Easter/Passover weekend.  I had a busy and fun weekend, which included tackling this recipe and Harry Potter!  For my birthday in early March, my boyfriend gave me Broadway tickets to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which I was so ecstatic about!  I’m a huge, huge Harry…

Hi All, Oh it’s been a while, and I apologize!  I’ve been pretty good about putting out weekly recipes, but there have been a couple of exceptions that past few weeks.  If you follow me on Instagram, you see that I made Irish Soda Bread for Saint Patrick’s Day a couple of weeks ago; a…

Happy Saturday All! This past week, my goal was to make a variety of “queijadas,” but I realized that was a little too ambitious.  Queijadas are traditionally a type of custard tartlet, but come in a variety of flavors and shapes.  Some don’t necessarily contain a custard filling or crust, like the one I made this…

Hi! Back at it with another soup, and sounds perfect as winter is still holdin’ on.  This recipe is from my Tia Elvira, and it’s fish soup.  I’ve had my mom’s fish soup, which perhaps she learned from my grandma, and I remember loving it!  Although this isn’t my mom’s recipe, I was excited to…