Soothe your appetite for pastries with a warm, plum jam filled strudel. All that this straightforward dessert requires from you is a little patience while waiting for the dough to rise. Perfect with a cup of tea on a rainy weekend afternoon. (BOSANSKI) If I had to guess, it was probably the Austrians who brought strudel to the…
Breads & Pastries
Jam Rolls
Jam rolls: just the right thing for a perfectly sweet and juicy end of the day. (BOSANSKI) I’ll keep it short today. We are making jam rolls. Soft, smooth, comforting. A perfect, light dinner along with your favorite tea. I say dinner because, in the Balkans, lunch is the largest meal of the day. So the…
Fried Mini Breads
Make yours a perfect bite with these savory pastries with a hundred names: Balkan fried mini breads. (BOSANSKI) No food, not even pita, has as many names as these Balkan fried mini breads. Peksimeti is what they’re most frequently called. Yet they’re also called lokumi, mekeke, uštpici… even poderane gaće which in colloquial means ‘ripped…
Homemade Bread
Do you know how to make homemade bread? If yes, great! If not, now is your chance to learn. (BOSANSKI) I’m making this ridiculously easy. Yeast, sugar, salt and flour easy. Remember play-doh? The idea behind this blog was to share Balkan cuisine with the English-speaking world. The more I elaborated on this concept, however, the…
