Soğuk çorba literally means cold soup in Turkish. If you are having problems with dealing with summer heat, it is as refreshing as gazpacho but even simpler to make! In fact, there are several versions of this, the one I made is also called soğuk ayran aşı. When a Turkish friend said to me she…
Tarte salée du printemps 🇫🇷
Spring, printemps in French… Time of colorful farmer’s markets with greens tempting even such convinced antivegetarians as myself. In my local Zagreb market the spring and early summer days are so colorful, that it is hard to resist buying things by colour – either more elegant all green, or a cheerful colour-mix. I did both,…
Ramazan pidesi 🇹🇷
Sorry for my long silence, folks 🤗 I hope you will not hold it against me, I simply had no time to cook. But… Here I am again! For Muslims it is now the time of the holy month of Ramazan, and it inspired me to make one of the best known dishes connected to…
Köy peyniri 🇹🇷?! Domaći kuhani sir 🇭🇷?! In any case, it’s easy homemade cheese!
Have you ever made your own cheese? If no, is it because you are afraid it is too complicated? That was my reason not to try it until recently – first time I made it last summer. When I dared it, I opted for a Turkish 🇹🇷 recipe, later I learned that in Croatia 🇭🇷…
Spätzle or Knöpfle? 🇩🇪
When one thinks of noodles, usually the first association is Italian pasta. However, noodles in many varieties have existed since prehistoric times. One of my my favourite sorts is Spätzle, a South-German type. Spätzle have existed for centuries and they seem to have originated in the Schwabenland, nowadays the Baden-Württemberg region with capital Stuttgart. The…
Kuymak (mıhlama) 🇹🇷
Are you a cheese fan? Then this Turkish breakfast dish from the Black Sea region that comes with two names (kuymak around Trabzon, mıhlama or muhlama beyond Rize) is the dish for you! It looks like cheese fondue, but it is simpler to make (and in contrast to fondue, in my personal experience, it can…
Pogačice s čvarcima 🇭🇷
One of the quintessential Croatian pub food varieties, these scones with layers of dough filled with finely chopped pork cracklings are a wonderful basis for beer, lots of beer 🍻 They are not too hard to make yourself (this enables you to have as much cracklings in it as you wish, in contrast to the…
Tokány 🇭🇺
Thinking of which not-yet-featured countries lie on the Orient Express route, I decided it is time to add a Hungarian dish. As a Croatian, I am used to many dishes with names and basic preparation style influenced by Hungary, as (northern) Croatia was 1102-1918 in various forms of union with Hungary (and Austria). One would…
Tuzlu kurabiye 🇹🇷
This Monday (seems Monday evolved to my recipe-publishing day, ha! 😁) I share with you a very simple recipe, the one for Turkish savory biscuits. They are easy to make (you don’t even need a mixer!) and they are great as party food, TV snack or a small gift. Kurabiye is the Turkish word for…
Serves 4, but I want to serve 9?! 🧮
Kitchen ratios – part 1 If there is any mathematical topic which you absolutely can’t avoid in preparation of food and drinks, then it is ratios and proportionality. They are used in conversions of units of measure, adapting the recipe to the desired number of servings, and many more. I plan to write a series…
Cooker on the Orient Express 