Food preservation
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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 completely change it. The same thing happened this year. I found a recipe for “Provansal…
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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 cabbages. Every Turšija is different and people make it as they like and use vegetables…
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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 takes a long time to cook and make, so it was just not possible to…
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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 prices are reasonably low. The bad spring and dry summer raised the prices of vegetables…
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Ljutenica- tomato and pepper relish/spread
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August is the month in which I spend most of my time in the kitchen. I already wrote about Ajvar which I made last week and this week I’ve decided to make ljutenica. Ljutenica(Lutenica) is another popular Balkans side food, a relish or a spread(depending on the preference) made from peppers and tomatoes. When it comes…