Category: Meat
The Foodnetwork in the USA asked me to write an article about, and develop a recipe inspired by, how we celebrate Orthodox Christmas. One of my family’s favorite…
Roast lamb is how most families across the southern Balkans who celebrate Easter break the Lenten fast. Špikovanje (larding) is a technique I first came across watching my…
“Of course, you also need to add some sweet paprika.” “How much?” “As much as it needs.” An instruction frequently repeated to me whenever I ask my mother…
“Kyfte na kromid”, and also called chufte sa lukom, chufte u umaku od crnog luka or souvan kyfte and loved across the southern Balkans. Essentially these are meatballs…
A combination of baked chicken and rice is never far from a Balkan table. To me, it embodies the Balkan ethos of cleverly utilising a little bit of…
Tavče gravče, or Macedonian style baked beans which are thought of as the national dish of North Macedonia. They are of course eaten in various forms across the…
Moussaka, a dish eaten from the Balkans to the Middle East with countless variants, the Greek version perhaps the most famous (with beef or lamb, eggplant and a…
I call this sarma (od kisel kupus) or sarma from sour/pickled cabbages. You may call it dolma (Turkey, Greece, Cyrpus), sarmale (Romania), holubtsi (Ukraine), gołąbki (Poland), kåldomar (Sweden),…
A sumptuous beef winter stew, famously associated with a beautiful historic city called Ohrid in North Macedonia. Ohrid is one of the oldest settlements in Europe which is…