tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69753470365111514462024-03-05T07:51:28.722+01:00fresh adriatic fishBig fish, little fish, swimming in Croatian sea...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-19250260606321351282009-10-07T21:44:00.001+02:002009-10-07T21:46:08.691+02:00procrastinationcounting sheeps...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-28520249856922728242008-12-15T23:50:00.003+01:002008-12-16T00:03:04.530+01:00I'm back!When, back in May, I said how I'm busy I didn't think it will take me soo long to come back to this blog. Yes I was really busy, I'll post about it, but after some time away from blog it was hard to start posting again.But, what is better time to start something if not this season when we all make plans for our new year's resolution!For the beginning I have to show you my "alternative Christmas Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-4518928477106616692008-05-29T23:25:00.002+02:002008-05-29T23:29:36.719+02:00Too busy......to blog, to bake... to live!It's a sad, sad life... but every now and then we all have such a period, we just have to hold on... dreaming of a better tomorrow without so much obligation....I send you all lots of kisses...Eat well!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-6600912462319120582008-04-27T23:36:00.005+02:002008-04-27T23:44:07.079+02:00DB challenge: Cheesecake PopsAll I can say for April DB challenge is: This was really fun! And the measurements from the recipe make enormous quantities of cheesecake pops so we were eating thought all April! Great! Love it! Will definitely make more and again!I couldn't find popsticks so I had to improvise with edible chocolate sticks but I think that made my pops even better!Cheesecake Pops Makes 30 – 40 Pops 5 8-oz. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-86144194005866265662008-03-19T23:02:00.019+01:002008-03-19T23:31:06.146+01:00Stuffed Adriatic SquidThis post is dedicated to my very dear friend Maja, who lives in Brooklyn. Maja is real nomad, she lived all around Europe and America. We met working on some film production and we developed one great friendship.In fact, Maja was one of the two person to who I firstly "discovered" my blog. From the moment she discovered I have a food blog she is tampering me to write about my "stuffed squids".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-47875215888475164972008-02-29T22:09:00.006+01:002008-02-29T22:21:27.879+01:00Daring Bakers: French BreadFor February Daring Bakers challenge Mary of The Sour Dough and Sara of I like to cook picked the French bread recipe from Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking Volume 2". According to Mary and Sara the original recipe from Julia Child cookbook takes up to 18 pages. That made me nervous. I'm quite proud of my bread baking skills, but till now I never made French bread. I usually Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-39247022947261268982008-02-04T21:35:00.000+01:002008-02-04T21:59:24.091+01:00Jota - the Comfort Food QueenIf you ask me, when we talk about comfort food, nothing can beat Jota - thick bean and sauerkraut soup. It's one of those ancient dishes that no one can really tell where and when was prepared for the first time. It is topical staple food in Dalmatia, Istria, Slovenia and part of northmen Italy (around Trieste). Each region has its own variant, but two main ingredients beans and sauerkraut are Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-18272077534060022062008-01-28T19:25:00.000+01:002008-01-28T19:37:59.204+01:00My Very First Daring Bakers Challenge: Lemon Meringue PieI've been stoking Daring Bakers for a while, but never felt brave enough to join them. Is not that I'm bad baker in general, but only when it comes to bake a pastry, cakes... It takes discipline, precision, patients that I simply do not have. With cooking you can always improvise, but with cakes... it still quantum physics for me... Nevertheless, last December something strange happened to me Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-15110599432516934642008-01-22T22:47:00.000+01:002008-01-22T22:52:39.330+01:00WTSIM... Macaroni&Cheese TerrineWhenever I'm without inspiration for lunch preparation I like to jump to one very simple but effective recipe: Macaroni with cheese. And if you find it too boring, just dress it up! I baked it in loaf tin and, viola, an exciting and fresh new meal was created! Macaroni with cheese are quite simple to prepare but it does required some patience and attention because milk in which macaroni are Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-55660524367261128902008-01-16T19:22:00.000+01:002008-01-16T19:27:49.095+01:00Lazy Fresh Adriatic FishHow young and naive I was on that January 1st. I woke up full with energy and hight hopes of better me. I was sure I'll change, that in 2008 I'll be more discipline and diligent, I'll post more regularly. I decided that I do not need new year's resolution to make a positive change in my life, I need to decide what I want and just do it! Well... you see the date, you can figure out yourself. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-78978673381021245392008-01-01T15:10:00.000+01:002008-01-02T13:32:34.562+01:00Orange Pudding: for boosting energy and beating hangover!Here it is, a delicious vitamin bomb to boost the bigging of the new year! Enjoy it! PS: it will help to beat hangover too! Orange Pudding ¾ cup water ½ cup orange juice Rind of 1 small orange 2 tablespoons lemon juice ½ cup sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch 1 egg separated A few grains of salt Rind the orange. Make it finer then on this image. They were too big. Mix orange rind Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-47224103972384259152007-12-04T20:49:00.000+01:002007-12-04T22:00:53.375+01:00Ragù Bolognese: I Did It My Way!Meat sauce Bolognese, in Italy known as "ragù bolognese" is one of those meals that is popular all over the world but it is rarely prepared the traditional way. One of the biggest "mistreatments" of the name is in super-popular meal "Spaghetti bolognese"! In Italy ragù bolognese is paired with tagliatelle not with spaghetti because spaghetti are not too common in cuisine of the region Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-72071826974341864602007-11-26T13:05:00.000+01:002007-12-04T21:55:00.389+01:00Step By Step Photo Recipe: Bolognese TartWe were making Pasta alla Bolognese, but I decided to try something little different - Bolognese Tart. And the result was great!Bolognese is so well known sauce that sometimes it's seams to me that we take it for granted. Well I encourage you to play with it because it is so simple sauce but and it can surprise you what wonderful combinations with Bolognese sauce are out there which just wait to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-35242835348716543942007-11-22T14:11:00.000+01:002007-11-22T14:20:30.888+01:00This is not a post about how to make egg-coated chicken with sweet and sour sauce!I really like to eat egg-coated chicken with sweet and sour sauce! Especially when I prepare the sauce and Stiv fries egg-coated chicken. I do not know what exactly he does, but he prepares definitely the best fried egg-coated chicken. This is not a post about how to make egg-coated chicken with sweet and sour sauce! One of the reasons that makes me soo happy to prepare egg-coated chicken Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-7978877395739886702007-11-19T10:37:00.000+01:002007-11-19T16:30:35.038+01:00Inside the Town's Bellyjust a few photos of the inside part of the Dolac market. Please look the photos of the outdoor part here.As I said before this photos were taken with no intention to be published, all this photos are taken with mobile phone camera, so they are not too good and I promise to try to make some more appropriate with much more detail soon....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-38588399514872731852007-11-19T10:22:00.000+01:002007-11-19T16:29:45.017+01:00My own Shopping Mecca!Let me introduce you Dolac - the belly of the Zagreb, one of the oldest and biggest (so they say, I wouldn't know for sure) European open air farmers market. It was open in 1930, it works 7 days a week, in the very center of the town and offers wide selection of fresh, local products, fruits, vegetables.... Outdoor part of the Dolac seams like big square but actually it is the roof of the indoor Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-23944009390581881672007-11-15T22:33:00.000+01:002007-11-15T22:59:45.473+01:00Ain't life beautiful!This really was exacting week!Firstly my recipe for Green Tomatoes and Aceto Balsamico Jam entered among six finalist of Green Tomato Contest at Apartment Therapy: the Kitchen!I would like to thanks to all who voted for me. I didn't win, but it was fun anyway. And it seam that I'm going to get some kind of present packet from Apartment Therapy: the Kitchen! And I'm such a sucker for presents!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-23261789587111914682007-11-09T15:19:00.000+01:002007-11-09T16:36:54.554+01:00I'm the fourth of six Finalist - Green Tomato ContestI can't believe, my recipe for Green Tomatoes and Aceto Balsamico Jam entered among six finalist of Green Tomato Contest at Apartment Therapy: the KitchenCheck it out here and vote for my recipe - off course only if you think it deserves it!Than you all in advance!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-69361956888055959372007-11-05T17:17:00.000+01:002007-11-24T10:15:17.587+01:00Green Tomatoes and Aceto Balsmico Jam - Why not?!I never ate green tomatoes. I only saw the movie. So I was surprised when I stumble upon bench with green tomatoes last Sunday on Dolac (the biggest open market in Zagreb). I remember reading about green tomatoes contest at Apartment Therapy, so I thought: "Why not?!" The farmer who sold them told me that they are used for pickling, but I was feeling little more adventurous than that. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-918514804127799652007-10-30T18:36:00.000+01:002007-11-02T14:41:24.203+01:00Zucchini From My Parents GardenLast year my parents started small garden in their beck yard. They are complete novice to gardening. While I was with them in Split I wanted them to try to develop bio-dynamical garden and I bought some books on bio-dynamical gardening, but I have to admit that it was all little bit SF for us, city slickers! I'll try again when I go beck to Split, but I do not have high hopes. Anyway, they do Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-85692117037350356612007-10-28T19:41:00.000+01:002007-11-24T10:16:02.410+01:00Pumpkin and Pomegranate Layered CakeThis was busy weekend. I played a lot with pumpkin preparing sauce, dessert... And once I started I couldn't stop playing! So I decide to try some new fun staff and I prepared this layered so called cake which I'll send to this months WTSIM...I just hope it will be accepted as layered cake since it is not baked, but I'll try and we will see!Pumpkin and pomegranate layered cakePrepare Pumpkin Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-90624096170124447192007-10-28T19:02:00.000+01:002007-11-24T10:16:27.300+01:00Pumpkin &MeWhen I first came to Zagreb, some 14 years ago, I wasn't really fan of pumpkins. In Dalmatia we do not use it much (if at all), and I have to admit that the first pumpkin based meal I had , most probably, I had after I arrived in Zagreb, and, again most probably since I do not really remember it, it was cake called Bučnica (after Buča - pumpkin) which is very popular in Zagreb and continental Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-83780297437346856912007-10-28T18:39:00.000+01:002007-10-28T19:56:31.073+01:00Step by Step Photo Recipe: Pumpkin and Shitake SauceFull recipe for this Pumpkin and Shitake sauce read here!1. prepare: pumpkin, Shitake mushrooms, butter, white wine, leek, rosemary, salt, paper.2. Slice leek into thin slices and fry them in deep pen with butter.3. Add pumpkin cubes, splash with with wine and cook until wine evaporates then add 1 cup of stock.4. Cook until pumpkin turns soft and fluids evaporate. Take half amount of pumpkin Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-38987297707274797792007-10-27T23:44:00.000+02:002007-10-28T18:42:48.119+01:00Step by Step Photo Recipe: Lentil Patties If you are like me and you need to see what you have to do, here it's step by step photo recipe for Lentil Patties that I've prepared few days ago!1. Prepare lentil, walnuts, breadcrumbs, onion, tomato puree, water, salt.2. Puree lentil, chop walnuts and onion. Mix all ingredients.3. Add tomato puree and water to help you form the patties.4. Preheat your oven to 180 C. Put patties on oven pan.5Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975347036511151446.post-87249687132135617552007-10-27T11:06:00.000+02:002007-11-24T10:16:46.796+01:00FAF gone crazy: Leeks are not Lentils!I've already stated that I'm going crazy, and this is the true story that proves that actually I have completely gone crazy.When I first read the list of ingredients for this month In the Bag: Pumpkin, Mushrooms and Leeks, it seemed to me it will not be easy to combine them. I spent few days thinking what could I do since I really wonted to take a part in this blogevent.After some serious Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7