Annie
My mom used to make something she called/pronounced “treshums”… this seems like a close spelling toressmos , but she didn’t fry her pork and it wasn’t ribs. I think. It was pork butt or shoulder, cut into cubes, with pimenta moida, garlic that she marinated but baked/roasted in the oven. Anyone familiar with a recipe like this? It was sort of like a cacoila but it wasn’t that. Thanks.
2 years ago, Wednesday, April 13, 2022
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Hi Annie, you can use different cuts of pork to make torresmos, from what you wrote it seems to be what she did.
2 years ago, Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Helen souza
Yes my Hubby's family pronounces trishums also. His family and my son in law's family are from Treceira. They use a lot of cinnamon in their cooking. I suspect a holdover from being on the Spice Island route centuries ago. My family from deep in the Appalachia hollers could never afford cinnamon, it was very expensive. Hubby's family tossed it around liberally on very humble dishes. I bought pumpkin pie spice because it seems to give me the closest taste to my Hubby's mom's recipes. See my recipe above.
2 years ago, Thursday, May 5, 2022