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Pastourma – Salt, Air & Spice Cured Pastrami, but better

January 23, 2022February 8, 2022Balkan Cookbeef, recipes, Uncategorized

  The grandma of Pastrami, the grand daddy of Beef jerky, Pastourma (or basturma in Turkey) is salt and air cured beef covered in delicious spices that serve to protect the meat from spoilage and which add such immense flavour it will make your toes curl.Unless you have access to a walk-in fridge Pastourma should […]

Montenegro, a tiny country with a big heart

May 12, 2021May 20, 2021Balkan Cookplaces, Uncategorized

With vaccinations behind us and Covid partially under control we decided that after a long year of stagnation it was time to spread our wings again and so we chose to travel to Montenegro over the Orthodox Easter weekend (which this year fell on the 2nd of May as supposed to Catholic Easter which was […]

Patsas. Poor man’s food for the rich

August 8, 2020December 14, 2021Balkan Cookrecipes, soups & stews, Uncategorized

  Not so long ago offal, the entrails and internal organs of an animal, was used as food for the poor. Nowadays, many 3 star Michelin chefs serve up heart, spleen, liver, kidneys and tripe prepared in an untraditional special manner. Offal can now be considered a delicacy reserved for the rich.Patsas or tripe soup, […]

Cigarette Boureki

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020Balkan CookUncategorized, vegetarian & vegan

  Filo Pastry is an unleavened very thin dough which features in the cuisine of many Mediterranean, Balkan and middle eastern countries. Filo pastry, literally meaning 'leaf' pastry because it is as thin as, well, a leaf. This type of pastry has been used in Greece from the time before Christ and can be used […]

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