Some of you, my dear readers, might be puzzled about Italian food featuring in this Orient Express themed food blog. Notwithstanding, Italy has the same right to appear in it as has Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia – all of these countries lie on the Simplon Orient Express route, and Hercule Poirot travelled with a Simplon…
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Manisa kebabı 🇹🇷
There are numerous variations on the topic grilled meat + yoghurt + tomato sauce + bread in Turkish cuisine, each with a specific name. The best known is probably İskender (kebap), where the meat is a döner and additionally to the basic combination you get melted butter poured over this very yummy, very non-slimming delicacy…..
Ričet 🇭🇷
Ričet, as it is called in Croatia and Slovenia, or Ritschert in Austria (and Bavaria), is a thick soup (Croatian: varivo, German: Eintopf) from the mentioned countries. As a Croatian, I will describe the Croatian version, but as far as I know it is practically identical with the Slovenian and Austrian one. The essential ingredients…
Midye dolma (not only) in Kadıköy 🇹🇷
Stuffed mussels, midye dolma, are a popular street food in İstanbul and all along the Aegean coast of Turkey. I have enjoyed lots of them in Bodrum and İzmir too, but my first midye dolma I had in Kadıköy (one of the parts of Istanbul on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, best known as…
Atom meze 🇹🇷
Meze, an essential class of Turkish food, are something between hors d’oeuvres and tapas, and come in many varieties. Atom is not among the most common ones, but it is my personal favourite. It is heavenly for anyone into hot food (and those who prefer it mild should better avoid it 😂). It is very…
Frittatensuppe, an Austrian classic 🇦🇹
I never was a fan of soups. From my earliest childhood memories on, I associate soups with being ill and having to stay home. Thanks to the corona-pandemic, I am forced to stay home lots and even if I am not ill, I feel so, thus it is time to try cooking a soup from…
Christmas eve in Croatia: cod is obligatory! 🇭🇷
One of the most firmly held Croatian traditions, observed by catholics and non-catholics alike, is to eat cod (stockfish) on Christmas eve (December 24th). In most cases it is prepared as a brudet (from Italian brodetto), made from dried cod, with potatoes. But why, oh why? Cod is not a native fish in the Adriatic…
My favourite Bavarian breakfast: Schnittlauchbreze 🇩🇪
Used to arriving from Zagreb to Munich by train early in the morning after an all night ride, I have a tradition of eating breakfast at Rischart, Neuhauser Str. 2, München. Last time I was there in summer 2017 and enjoyed this pretzel (German: Brezen, Bavarian: Brezn) with lots of butter and chives: Schnittlauchbreze 😋…
Gözleme 🇹🇷
Whether you want a tasty start of a day or a small, luscious meal sometime later, Turkish gözleme might be your choice. They are often named Turkish pancakes, but they have virtually nothing in common with pancakes, except for the liberty in fillings – what you put inside is limited (almost) only by your phantasy….
Cooker on the Orient Express 