PLANT BASED FOOD AND STORIES
My Grandma would never call this a roll. She would call it a rose. Aha, a rose. The roses I ate as a child were filled with walnuts, poppy or jam, or just raisins, spices and some butter. Anyhow. Since this roll is vegan, any kind of “breadish” dough will do. You can enrich it […]
Sataraš is a dish directly from my ancestors. I grew up with it, my Mom makes it, my Grandma made it, all of my Croatian family makes it. But it certanly is not only Croatian, because you can eat it in all nearby countries: Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Monte Negro, Macedonia. And they will […]
Butternuts are here, people! They came with the end of the summer, all shiny and brimming with sweet, juicy and healthy inside. I’m always amazed how they grow in my parent’s garden – needing care next to little – they just spread their vines and leaves frolicly untill the bright pumpkins finally show up to […]
These days I’ve been rumbling and rummaging around the house and into the wardrobes because our littlest one is growing so I threw everything out of his wardrobe on one big pile and tried to sort everything by what’s to stay, to give away or sell and what’s for me to keep as a memory. […]
Here comes the Chutney! Oh, I really love this Indian work of culinary, fruity art! Do you? I’m not a jammy kind of person (I’m not sure how this sounds but still, hehe) and more often than not I’ll opt for something savoury rather than sweet. But with all this beautiful, vibrant fruit I had […]
Ah, you all know about environment problems. Globaly, is it so critical, or not? There are articles, studies, books, debates. But we’ve all seen them, read them, discussed and felt this or that. But what can we do? There is a difference between being environmental conscious on „debate level“ and really feeling it and […]
Don’t you just love nectarines? I do. I literally can’t stop eating them. I like them firm and not ripe at all. You know, when you take a bite and it kind of cracks. That’s my kind of nectarine. That’s my kind of any fruit, I guess. I eat fruit when it’s just about to […]
I’ve heard about Soparnik many times but didn’t make it till few months ago. And I can only blame myself for that, because it was eaten by the speed of the space rocket. But first things first. Soparnik is traditional Dalmatian dish, hundreds of years old. Or even older? The most famous and praised is […]
It was a quiet day. As quiet as cabbage can be. And fennel too. I wasn’t always on familiar terms with fennel, must admit. My Grandma didn’t have it in her garden and when it was brought my attention to it some decade ago, I turned away my nose in a frown. Don’t you like […]
Not a thought of an ice cream goes by that I don’t remember a famous scene from Jim Jarmusch’s Down by Law movie and even more famous scene where Roberto Benigni recites his English lessons. “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!” Oh, I love this movie. And Roberto Benigni. And John […]