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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Narlı lokum 🇹🇷
Lokum is known in English speaking countries as Turkish delight, and it comes in many varieties. Some variants of lokum can easily be prepared at home, and for winter season my favourite is this narlı lokum, pomegranate Turkish delight. It needs few ingredients and is super easy to make! Suitable for: Narlı lokum is halal…
Stonska torta 🇭🇷
The cake from Ston, a small historical Croatian town near Dubrovnik, is a traditional cake. It is mainlyprepared fror bigger festivities like Easter and Christmas. Even if it is known and made for centuries, there exist no ‘proper’ recipe – the recipes vary across families and are mostly transmitted from one generation to another. Even…
Domates dolması 🇹🇷
Stuffed veggies are a well-known and ancient staple of Middle Eastern, particularly Turkish cuisine. Many have been adapted to other national cuisines, particularly those who belong to countries once under the rule of the Ottoman empire. The best known of these is, I guess, stuffed peppers, popular all over Balkans, and beyond… Turks stuff peppers,…
Gnudi primavera 🇮🇹
Gnudi. Maybe you never heard of these fluffy, cheesy gnocchi-relatives. They are Tuscan dumplings made of ricotta, originally the sheep one. The best known version also uses spinach in the dough, an after cooking they are turned in butter with sage. There are more than enough classical gnudi recipes online, but… I attempted something new…
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…
Soğan kebabı 🇹🇷
If you associate the word kebap (or kebab) with what Turks call döner kebabı, and is a common type of fast food in many countries, then this might be interesting for you to try. On one hand, it is one of the very broad category of Turkish food called kebaps, on the other hand, this…
Farfalle alla puttanesca 🇮🇹
When I am stressed, sometimes making my own pasta can calm me down a bit. At least as long as it is not with more than 200 g flour, i.e. not for more than two persons 🤣 Yesterday I had one of such days so I took 100 g flour, a pinch of salt, an…
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 🇭🇷…
Cooker on the Orient Express 