Everyone who likes visiting or living in Portugal sooner or later will be interested in knowing something about traditional Portuguese cookery and the little secrets of its preparation. Portuguese cooking includes excellent seafood, fish and meat dishes, using fresh fruit and vegetables. Portuguese cooking is versatile in its preparation and enables you to create delicious dishes. In this book you will find 108 recipes and over 50 notes and tips teaching you the skills of Portuguese cookery, describing spices, giving you calorie values and advices on healthy cooking.

Portuguese cooking includes excellent seafood, fish and meat dishes, using fresh fruit and vegetables. Portuguese olive oil is one of the healthiest produced in Europe. The wine is for romantics and warms your soul. Portuguese cooking is versatile in its preparation and enables you to create delicious dishes. In this book you will not find just recipes. You will find a short comprehensive history of Portuguese cooking and information on uses and tastes. This cook book describes spices, giving you energy values and advice on natural cooking in season.

Your Guide to Authentic Portuguese Petiscos! Easy step-by-step instructions Colour photographs It is true, but unfair, to say that petiscos are the Portuguese equivalent of tapas. True because it is the case, but unfair because Portugal has its own cuisine of which it can be justly proud. Petiscos may be simple or complex and vary from a nibble to something quite hearty. It is undoubtedly the case that anyone who enjoys making and eating Spanish tapas will be keen to try their hand at petiscos. The only downside is that some of the ingredients may not be as readily available as their Spanish counterparts, but with a little improvisation, an acceptable compromise can be reached. Bom apetite!

Authentic recipes that unlock the mysteries of Portuguese Cooking The Mediterranean diet is famed for its fresh and vibrant cuisine. In this book, Ana Patuleia Ortins invites you to discover or revisit the soul-comforting, peasant food of Portugal, just as vibrant, yet distinct from that of its neighbors. Peppered with a lifetime of anecdotes from a passionate cook, Portuguese Home Cooking draws us into an immigrant kitchen where traditional culinary methods were handed down from father to daughter, shared and refined with the help of the family and friends who watched, chopped, and tasted. The recipes in this cookbook are of dishes prepared as they are in Portugal—with the measurements tried and tested, and the ingredients and methods fully explained. With warmth and gusto, Ana Patuleia Ortins shares garden-fresh salads, hearty wine and garlic braises, legumes and leafy greens, meat and shellfish dishes, rustic breads, and the luscious desserts for which Portugal is known. Beautiful food and location photography will transport you to Portugal's picturesque countryside, and novices and experienced chefs alike will delight in the culture and cuisine, whether nostalgic for home, or discovering it for the first time.

Colombia is a country of vast exotic culinary creations and diverse territories that range from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, producing a plentiful variety of seafood; to the Amazon, Magdelena and Cauca rivers that bathe its soils with fertility; and to the Andean mountains that present coller climates. The author travelled throughout these regions to collect the most authentic dishes. With over 175 recipes and a glossary of ingredients, cooks will become acquainted with many of Colombia's indienous foods, such as cilantro, tamarind, tree tomatoes, gooseberries and sweet and hot peppers.

The dishes of Portugal are known for being mild in spice but rich in flavor. Meals such as stewed seafood flavored with herbs and vinegar, homestyle bread made with sweet potato, rich sausage stews, ribs sweetened with pepper paste-all food Ana Patuleia Ortins has eaten growing up as a first generation descendant of Portuguese immigrants, as well as taught in her cooking classes in the Portuguese-rich community of Gloucester, Massachusetts.This masterful collection of over 200 recipes has it all: Classic, must-have favorites that preserve the traditional flavors of Portugal, and recipes inspired by modern Portuguese cuisine. This is the biggest and most comprehensive book on Portuguese cooking that will thrill foodies from anywhere.With recipes such as Madeiran Wine and Garlic Beef Kabobs, Mushroom-Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Pomegranate Sauce, Sautéed Kale with Pine Nuts and Onions, and Saint Martin's Grilled Salt Cod with Potatoes, there's something for everyone. Your family and friends will be talking for days about the incredible dishes you've created from this book.