cooking

  • My Saturday lunch: One-pot pasta

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    I’m a huge fan of one-pot meals. I’m not sure if the reason is fewer dishes to wash or the fact that I own only 4 pots and 2 pans. I cook normal meals, lunches that have many different side…

  • Leek casserole aka. “složenac od poriluka”

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    We love to eat leeks. Out of all the vegetables, leeks are one of the vegetables that we have every week. Usually, I make leek stew with different ingredients, such as meat, sausages, potato, and barley. But, sometimes, we’re in…

  • Harvesting and cooking brassica greens

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     I’ve never had such an early brassica harvest in all my gardening years.  This year I decided to try a new approach to growing brassica greens. Usually, I’d sow the brassica seedlings around March, transplant them in the middle of…

  • “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….

  • Pickling season: pickled beets

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    August is the time when we start our pickling season. We store our harvested veggies and when the garden numbers are too small, we buy fresh vegetables from the local family farms. Vegetables are now at their peak, and the…