diy recipe

  • 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…

  • Pickling season: Turšija

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     One of the very popular pickled foods in Croatia is Turšija. Turšija(Torshi) is a Middle Eastern and Balkan dish, and it’s basically a mixture of different sour vegetables. The Croatian Turšija usually contains cauliflower, cucumbers, carrots, peppers, green tomatoes, and…

  • Pickling season: pickled baked peppers

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     Pickling madness in my kitchen continued with baked peppers. I bought a small number of peppers and eggplants. I was planning to make ajvar, but since I had lots more pickling to do, I gave up on the idea. Ajvar…

  • Plum jam

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    The past few days were busy. It was the time to harvest plums. We have only 2 plum trees but we got around 30 kilos (1058 oz.) of plums from them. The first 10 kilos we used for cakes and…

  • Elderberry flower syrup

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    Today I’ve made elderberry flower syrup. I’ll leave the recipe I use here…maybe some of you will want to try it.Most people prefer elderberry syrup that is made out of berries, but I prefer the one that is made from…