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Hello friends! I was looking at when I made my last recipe, and it was at the end of August!  I haven’t gone this long without making a recipe, and I’ve definitely missed it.  I’m excited to get back up and running, full steam ahead!  A lot has changed in such a short amount of…

Hi All! It’s taken me a while to do this next recipe, because I’m more or less still living out of a suitcase and boxes.  I’m fortunate enough to have a roof over my head, but at the moment we are still in search of our “roof,” so to speak.  We are hoping to have…

Happy Monday Everyone! It’s been a busy past couple of weeks.  I’m officially all moved to New York and getting settled in.  I want to be able to make recipes about every week now, and not have too much lag time in between!  This next recipe is one from my Tia Gorette who lives in…

Hi everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks as I’ve been wrapping everything up for my move to New York City next weekend.  After months of preparation, I can’t believe the time has come! I’m very much looking forward to this next chapter of my life with someone so special to me. With that said,…

And I’m back! Happy Sunday everyone.  This recipe come from my Tia Elvira.  It’s a pea stew with linguiça and potatoes, and growing up, I remember my mom making this recipe quite often.  Tia Elvira’s version is slightly different, but just as good! As you will notice with most of these recipes, they are rather…

Hello All! It’s been a few weeks, and I’m excited to be back to cooking a new recipe.  This recipe is from my Tia Emma, who lives in California.  I don’t see her as often as I do the aunts who live in Idaho, but it’s always so nice when I do see her and…

Today is a special weekend as it is Mother’s Day on Sunday, and I’m beginning the celebrations today, with my mom.  I am also celebrating what great mothers and mother-figures the five sisters are to so many. My mom was very young-20 years old-when she had my twin sister and I, and she was an…

Spaghetti is not the first thing that comes to mind when someone thinks of Portuguese food, and that’s because it’s not a traditional Portuguese dish at all.  However, my Tia Gorette makes an amazingly delicious spaghetti that I grew up eating, and I just had to include it in this collection of recipes. I grew…

Bacalhau.  I would venture to say that bacalhau, or salted cod, is the ubiquitous dish of the Azores and Portugal.  It is found on nearly every Portuguese restaurant menu and every Portuguese household has tasted this dish.  There are so many different variations of the ways in which to make bacalhau and all of them…