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…
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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…
Tortellini alla panna con funghi finferli 🇮🇹
Yesterday I realised – even if most of my cooking is either Turkish or Italian, and even if Italywas on the Simplon Orient Express route, I still had not publisbed a single Italian recipe! This omissionis hereby now removed 🙂 Yes, I often make traditional pasta dishes like spaghetti carbonara, or penne all’Amatriciana, or buccatini…
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…
Cooker on the Orient Express 