Usually, I write about Italian food and recipes, but this time I decided to post a recipe that is very popular on my mother’s side of the family, which is Brazilian and Portuguese, as well as Italian.

This is a recipe made with salted cod, dried codfish which has been cured in salt. It is known as baccala in Italian, and bacalhau in Portuguese. You can usually find salted cod at any market. It is especially popular around Christmas and Lent.