As nature begins to wake up again and plants begin to thrive and grow, we find the best time of the year for collecting wild edible plants! Young shoots are often soft and succulent, with tastes that have not yet matured to bitterness and impressive nutritional content. One famous example […]
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For many of us, fruits are probably associated with desserts while we think of vegetables in more savoury contexts. But have you ever tried a smoothie that had vegetables in it? Combining fruits and vegetables is actually very common in world cuisine. In Scandinavia, cranberry jams are used as side […]
Brussel sprouts, as you may have guessed from their appearance, are from the same botanical family that gives us cabbage and a range of other edible plants. Like these relatives, brussel sprouts originate from the Mediterranean, but have since become established throughout Europe, especially around Brussels, thus giving them their […]
We recently wrote about a traditional Balkan dish, jota, and its quick preparation. But today we take you on the international express once more, but with a dish that is even faster and easier to make! Bujta repa (said booyta repa) is a traditional dish from the Prekmurje province of […]
Do you ever find yourself busily working when lunch time rolls around and you just want to eat something very quick, but also it have to be healthy? This even happens to us, that’s why we decided to prepare jota (pronounced yota), one of the famous Balcan dish. An interesting […]
After getting a big squash from our home garden, we decided something had to be done with it! We settled on making a sort of squash goulash. Squash (Cucurbita pepo L.) and its seeds contain many vitamins and minerals, especially vitamins A, E, C, B2, as well as minerals such […]
Today we take your taste buds on a journey to the Balkan Peninsula in southeast Europe for a tasty and nutritious traditional dish based on one of our favourite foods: beans! This is generally seen as a winter dish, but who is to say when we can and cannot eat […]
For today’s meal we decided to mix things up a bit and combine two different cultures into one yummy meal; from the East of the Mediterranean we borrowed a stuffed zucchini dish, while we took gazpacho from the West. Our decision for the gazpacho was a result of a happy […]