Two quick and tasty additions to clear soups Austria and surrounding countries tend to start (not only) Sunday lunches with soups. In most cases these are clear soups, based on chicken or beef broth, alternatively a vegetarian vegetable broth. The basic broth is then enhanced with various Suppeneinlagen, i.e. added dumplings and similar. Best known…
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İzmir köfte 🇹🇷
Turkish kitchen is full of yummy variations on minced meat with veggies (one I already described in this blog, the Manisa kebabı). İzmir köfte, meatballs İzmir style, is another of my favourites. They are essentially baked meatballs with potatoes and red sauce. I made them several times with slight variations on the recipe below and…
Ajvar 🇭🇷 🇲🇰 🇷🇸 🇲🇪 🇧🇦
Ajvar is a popular Balkan relish based on red peppers, and several local variations exist, the most famous one being the (North) Macedonian (n. b. strictly speaking, Macedonian ajvar is made only with peppers, while all the other versions also contain aubergines). Even if the variations are small, each country, even each family, tends to…
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,…
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…
Units of Measure – Temperature 🧮
A recipe says bake at 175 degrees Celsius, but your oven temperature units are Fahrenheit, to what temperature should you set it? Unfortunately, different temperature units of measure are not proportional, so it is not possible to state a number you just have to multiply or divide with to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit. The…
Units of measure – Length 🧮
This blog sticks to continental European units of measure. For example, lengths are given in cm (centimetre) or mm (millimetre, which is one tenth of a cm, i. e. 10 mm = 1 cm). If you are used to describe lengths in inches, just divide the cm value by 2.54 to get the length in inches. If the length…
Cooker on the Orient Express 