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 Several months ago, my friend, Vesna, gave me a recipe for mimosa salad that I wanted to try. I changed her recipe a little…decreased the amount of cheese, used jalepeno ranch dressing instead of mayonnaise and sour cream, and I added tomatoes. It turned out to be quite yummy and looked very pretty too. … [read more]  My friend, Vesna, gave me a recipe for a casserole made with sliced cabbage, potatoes, mushrooms, cheese and smoked sausage. I was trying to figure out what to make for dinner, and I really wanted to try her recipe; however, I didn’t have any mushrooms or smoked sausage. Well, I decided to improvise and make … [read more]  Zeljanica ( pronounced zel-yawn-ee-suh), which Kemal translates to spinach pita in English, is one of our favorite meals. If you’ve never tried Balkan cuisine and you love spinach like we do, you really have to try making this. The spinach and cheese filling has such a beautiful taste, and then when it’s surrounded by the … [read more]  Kemal and I love spinach, and last night my friend Vesna was telling me about a dish she made for dinner that sounded absolutely wonderful. Kemal and I wanted to make it, but we decided to do it a little differently because we had several eggs that needed to be used up. We also wanted … [read more]  I’ve been making lasagna for around 30 years now, and if you don’t mind me tootin’ my own horn, I must say that I make an incredibly good lasagna. It’s one of my favorite meals! I don’t really have a recipe for it because I rarely make it the exactly the same way … [read more]  Moussaka is a popular meal in the Middle East and the Balkans. It’s basically a vegetable casserole that’s layered like a lasagna but isn’t made with pasta but rather vegetables instead. I’ve tried many moussaka recipes, all of which were meatless; however, some recipes I’ve seen call for ground lamb or ground beef. My husband, Kemal, … [read more]  You don’t need culinary expertise to make your own pizza dough. You don’t need much time, equipment or complicated ingredients either. Making your own pizza dough is a lot less expensive than buying those ready-to-eat pizza crusts that you find in the supermarket. And besides that, when you make the dough yourself, you know there’s no … [read more]  Okay, so a few weeks ago I had this idea that I wanted to try making bread with wine. Well, why not? Beer bread is wonderful, so it seemed only logical that a red wine bread would be lovely too. Or not… The thing is a simple red wine bread might have been just … [read more] |
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