Tavče gravče, traditional macedonian baked bean

my baba making banitsa

Burekas Hazan in Yehud.

Leskovačka mućkalica, Serbian pork stewed with peppers

I know one thing that is better than garlic bread and it’s Kiefle with eurocrem

Hate Christmas

Love love love love the balkan food my parents start dishing out this time of year tho

PRIPREMA SUTLIJAŠ - SUTLIJA - RICE PUDDING VEOMA UKUSNO, ODLIČAN RECEPT!!!

dear santa

Vegan Spanakopita Made with Stinging Nettles

A fun thing about being in Serbia is that a standard flavor for jams and juices and various sweet things is "forest fruit," which I don't really see a whole lot in the US. Like yeah, it exists, but it's not really common. I can't walk in to a pastry shop and reasonably expect them to offer it as a common donut filling, see it as an ice cream at a gelato stand, or find it on the crepes menu at a fun cafe.

It's generally a mix of raspberry, blackberry, strawberry, blueberry, sometimes rosehip. Though the tea I'm drinking in that flavor rn is

Ingredients: hibiscus, apple, sweet blackberry leaves, flavorings: blackcurrant, raspberry, blackberry and wild strawberry 5.7%, rosehip, elderberries.

(This one actually is available in the US, though I'm not sure if it's online order only.)

Lepinja

the other day someone told me that greece was actually turkish and that greece stole all turkish food from them and i am shaken to the core and still quite confused ahahahahahahahahah

Oh I have the meme for this

Having said that, Turkish and Greek cuisine also share numerous elements with Balkan and Middle Eastern and Arabic cuisines so it’s not at all an only Turkey vs Greece in fact.

In general the cuisine of this region comes from the Ottoman Empire which simply made modifications over the Byzantine Empire’s cuisine. The specific locality of each dish is usually not known because all these different peoples lived in the same empires and dishes were getting popularised within their broad borders. Most ingredients Turks use are indigenous in the Mediterranean and although they certainly like to think that, it is a little unlikely that they came last in the region only to teach Greeks, Arabs and Slavs entirely how to eat, because apparently we all ate cardboard before the Turks came. Thanks for the rice and coffee tho

It is always beneficial to us how Ancient and Byzantine Greeks recorded all but their daily dookie size, because there is knowledge available. I think you will like this series of three posts about the History of the Greek cuisine. I have added the first part, in which you will also find the links to the second and third part.

First time making lepinje. Omnomnom