Category: Recipes

Ajvar is a traditional food here in Bosnia, even though it is known throughout the region. It’s a chutney made out of red piquillo peppers (those intensely red and sweet Spanish peppers) and eggplant, both of which are roasted. This is usually used as a spread on bread, or alongside meat like chicken or steak. I love it, and it’s not...

When summer rolls around baking goes out of the window mostly. You simply don’t want to fiddle about in the kitchen or heat the oven. I’m personally more concentrated on making cold treats (more of which you will see in the upcoming posts), but this cake is the exception to the rule. It’s easy to make, uses fresh seasonal fruit and...

I recently bought Nigella Lawson’s book “How to be a Domestic Goddess – Baking and the art of comfort cooking”. It’s a really great cooking book, with many sweat treats but also savory baking options. I made her Mini Cheesecakes (modified the recipe just slightly, but it’s Nigella’s version). Since I made them in the middle of the night, I didn’t...

I recently purchased a doughnut baking mold, and ever since then I’m on the lookout for the perfect baked donuts recipes. I have made a couple, but this chocolate version is a real showstopper and indulgent treat. The recipe makes for 6 Donuts, which is conveniently the number of molds you get in the baking pan. It’s a better alternative then...

While I was recently visiting Vienna, my friends and I ate some Ice Cream at the Tichy Eissalon, which is a very popular gelateria there. We had the most amazing Hazelnut Ice Cream, and I posted a picture of it on my Facebook Page, a while back. The Ice Cream tasted superb, and every since we got back home we...

INGREDIENTS200 gr farfalle or other short pasta100 gr frozen peas150 ml double cream150 gr diced ham or chicken2 tablespoons grated Parmesan METHOD

There is noting better then this version of apple pie. It has a very easy crust, that only takes minutes to prepare. It’s not the usual pie crust that has to chill. The apples come out juicy and succulent, and the butter topping is to die for. This is my go-to apple pie. And you won’t be disappointed in it. INGRIDIENTS...

This is a delicious, one-dish cake, that is easy to prepare and even easier to eat. This Pineapple Upside Down Cake is not finicky or tricky to make at all. I don’t make any fancy designs to it, I just layer the ingredients up, bake it and eat it. Nothing more simple then that. 🙂 I also like this cake,  because...

The most important recommendation comes first: order the tufahija. Food historians and culinary writers who have documented Bosnian cuisine most consistently identify it — a whole poached apple stuffed with crushed walnuts and topped with whipped cream — as the dessert most distinctly Bosnian rather than shared across the broader Ottoman culinary world. Everything else in Sarajevo’s sweet shops exists...

Somewhere on a two-lane road through central Georgia in July, you stop at a roadside fruit stand — the kind with a hand-painted sign and a cooler full of peaches that smell like actual peaches. Not the waxy, odorless kind from the grocery store cold bin. Real ones, just pulled from the tree. You buy a bag, eat three in...