Traditional Dishes

Dutch Oven Lamb Chops is a Traditional Portuguese dish, normally served on a special occasion when the family comes together on a holiday or for the long weekend. There are many parts of Portugal that prefer to make this dish, with old goat. For those…

Fish Stew has always been a favourite dish in our home. It is a family recipe, so we hope by sharing it with you, it may also become a family favourite in your home. While preparing the stew, we always make more than for the…

Combining the local products that surround us and having a Mediterranean influence in our cuisine, full of colours and flavours becomes truly rewarding for our well being and health. This is our style of cooking and we are so excited to show what’s cooking in…

Making homemade Chicken Broth and Chicken Bone Broth from scratch is simply easy to make! Every week we slow cook a chicken in the Dutch Oven or cook it in the Instant Pot. So while the chicken is cooking the broth is also coming together.…

Dutch Oven Slow Cook Whole Chicken is a super easy dinner option and the leftover chicken can be used in countless other dishes. Once and a while we all go out to get a rotisserie chicken, but it’s quite expensive and normally it serves the…

Going to the local butcher is a regular thing that we enjoy doing during the week. We never know what deal might be happening. This week we got a great deal on chicken thigh, $6.15 for 4 gorgeous ones. So we focused on making different…

Pork Cutlets with Poached egg is a very known dish is Portugal. The meat and the onions are Fried in butter, as well for a sunny side-up egg. Very delicious combination. We serve this dish as is, expect, we aren’t fry friendly. As said, we…

Pork Neck Steak is delicious because of the marbling fat through out the meat. It gives so much flavour and at the end that fat simply melts away. I am a fan of going to the local butcher shop on my street. First because of…

Braised Cubed Pork and Clams, is well know to be one of many Traditional and Popular dishes of Portuguese Cuisine. The clams are typical from Algarve. While the Pork is from Alentejo, both beautiful regions in South Portugal. We reinvented this dish by braising the…

Creamy Pureed Spinach Butternut Squash Soup, hits the spot for any tummy is this cold weather. Hello all you foodies and Happy 2019! We are back to our usual routines. The holidays were overwhelming this year. It was our daughter’s first Christmas and her first…