PLANT BASED FOOD AND STORIES
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 […]
I was affraid of cantaloupes as a child. Not because someone hit me in the head with it but in the nose. Not in the way you might think, but the scent would hit me hard everytime my Grandma cracked this yellow baseball open. So I ran. And my Grandma really loved cantaloupes and I […]
Well, of course baked potatoe salad is nothing new, letalone some recipe, right? In Croatia people would say, “To je topla voda”, which means, “That’s warm water”. Meaning, that’s invented long time ago. So yes, baked potatoe salad is warm water in terms of invention and originality but I’ll rather think of it as a […]
I never cooked with buckwheat before. Yes, I know, I know. But my Grandma didn’t cook it, my mother didn’t cook it, anyone in my family never even mentioned buckwheat so what’s here to wonder about. Except me, because here and there and buckwheat everywhere, and I still kept avoiding it like Green Eggs […]
The spring came and with textbook accuracy I started spring cleaning and gardening like crazy. Well. Not quite. Spring is officially still dormant, but not quite. I did clean and garden, but not quite because of spring but because of all the dust and stuff you don’t want to know but am sure you also […]