Sílvia left Faro and returned to Sarnadas, in the Algarve hills, to care for her mother and grandparents.
From the family kitchen, she created her own meditative sanctuary. “The kitchen is a temple,” she believes. She finds joy in working dough, in the rhythm of pots and pans, in the alchemy of flavours.
Her mother and grandmother once gracefully baked wedding cakes for the village, a tradition woven into the family’s past. Inspired by old recipes and her own creativity, Sílvia bakes almond, fig, orange, and carob tarts.
But her true signature? The “Sarnadinhas”—small biscuits coated in a sugar and lemon glaze, the hallmark of Bolachinhas da Si, a collection of sweets made in honour of the land and her love for family.
