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  • Drying elderberry flowers

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    Elderberry flowers are something I absolutely adore, the beautiful small white flowers, although don’t seem like it, carry loads of taste and are a great ingredient to make syrup, cordial, or even jam. Elderberry fruits are also excellent, but the…

  • Sunday lunch: Sarma

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     Sarma – the Manna meal of the Balkans, is a dish that every single person in Balkans eats at least once a year. Usually, this meal is prepared around New year’s, but in many houses, it’s eaten throughout the winter….

  • “Less messy avjar” or ajvar from the oven

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    Last year I made ajvar for the first time in my own kitchen and completely alone. Of course, that meant that I also had to clean the ajvar mess alone and that’s the experience I don’t want to do again….

  • First pickling marathon finished

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     Finally, I’ve finished with the pickling marathon. It has been almost a week of peeling, slicing, dicing, and jar hunting. I’ve used almost all medium-sized jars that I had at home and filled 110 jars of different pickled joys.  While…

  • Pickling season: Sort of Provansal vegetables

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     Every pickling season I try to find some new recipe to test and try out. Usually, I look in my old cookbooks or on our local recipe sharing online community and usually find a nice recipe that I like, and…