RECIPES WITH A STORY

If you receive a menu in any restaurant in Bulgaria you might be surprised how many pages are dedicated to the so-called meze. Meze is served to accompany alcoholic drinks,...

Bulgarians eat white yoghurt (“kiselo mliako” in Bulgarian) every day, their whole life, in large amounts and in different forms. Very often as a side dish to other meals, in...

In my article about Porto, I promised to tell you what is the favourite dish of its inhabitants. If you still do not know what it is I am sure...

The spring begins on March 21st, it is the day of the astronomical spring equinox. March marked the return to the active life of farming but also of military campaigning....

Soup is one of the oldest cooked meals in the history of mankind. Although we cannot say who was the first to have the idea to put some ingredients into...

We tasted this dessert on our trip to Tomar. It is a small Portuguese town by the river Nabao, with 20 thousand inhabitants only. Nevertheless, it is one of the...

If you come to a restaurant in Portugal and you open the menu on the page with typical Portuguese pastries and desserts you might feel like in a medieval monastery....

One of the ingredients used in our recipe are sprouts. It is like magic when a perfect miniature version of the grown plant sprouts from such a very tiny seed....

Although white wine is used in our recipe, Bulgaria is famous for its red wines. They say that all Bulgarian songs praise red wine except one. In that song, they...

Have you baked for Christmas already? I think that Linzer cookies are not missing on any Christmas table not only in Slovakia but in all Central European Countries. When I...