• Bulgarian cuisine,  Pork main dishes

    Beans with pork breasts in a ceramic pot

    Боб със свински гърди в гювеч

    Generally, I always cook beans on Saturdays and Sundays. Not because it’s complicated, it is cooked by itself, it just takes a long time. Especially if I decide to cook it in a ceramic pot. But now with this home office there is no particular difference. I put it in the oven in the morning and for lunch we had the most perfect Bulgarian meal. And here you go – easy for the quarantine dish, and such a scent is floating around in the air that some of your neighbors might ring the doorbell and you might have unexpected guests 🙂 Come on, open the cupboard, take out the beans…

  • Bulgarian cuisine,  Fish main dishes

    Mackerel with beans and pickled cucumbers (Ropotamo Mackerel)

    Скумрия "Ропотамо"

    Today I would like to diversify a little the Easter menu with a very old and delicious recipe that I remember from my childhood – Ropotamo Mackerel. For our younger audience, I would like to explain that the recipe comes from canned mackerel, which was sold in shops, which contained tomato sauce and pickled cucumbers. I’m not sure about the beans … I may be burdened by the taste of childhood, but I have a feeling that everything was tastier then. Probably because I was a kid … So I’m glad Tanya Kiryazova reminded me of this recipe and shared it on her site mytasted.blogspot.com. Thank you very much, Tanya!…

  • Bulgarian cuisine,  Old books recipes,  Other main dishes

    Beans with sausages

    Боб с наденица

    Beans with sausages – one more classic dish from the Bulgarian cuisine. It is inexplicable why, but this taste and flavour that is carried around the kitchen when beans are being cooked is an integral part of Bulgarian life and a sense of things and the world. True, it takes a long time to cook, but at the same time, every minute is worth it. And if you add, as in this case, a sausage or another nice meat with bones, everyone will “lick” their plates and you wouldn’t need to wash them 😉 Here, look how I did it this time, because you know – 10 cooks, 20 recipes.…

  • American cuisine,  Main dishes with ground meat

    Chili

    Chili

    It is my Grandmother’s original recipe. I just added a few things here and there but my Grandmother made chili that was so good, that it would make you jump out of the chair, spin around in the air and kick someone in the back of the head (kind of like Bruce Lee). I remember the first time she “allowed” me to watch her make chili. See, my Grandmother got me interested in cooking. Since Sunday’s in our family was the big dinner day, that started at noon after church and finished at around 4 pm (16:00) it was the day that my Grandmother became very creative. She had a…