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Croatian

Smotani govedina – rolled beef

4 January 2012 Croatian
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This is a dish that clutches to my vague memory of being a youngster obediently sitting with mum, dad and siblings chowing on simple Croatian stodge after a hard day at school. A recent phone conversation with my mother, it’s often about food, somehow dwelled on this particular dish that I only remembered having after I made [...]

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Primošten kokoš – primošten chicken

7 December 2011 Croatian
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This dish comes from the small fishing village of Primošten located on the gorgeous Dalmation coastline in Croatia. Known for its beautiful beaches, unique seafood dishes and famous Babic red wine grown in the rocky terraces by the sea, this is a little town I really want to visit on my next trip to Croatia. If I [...]

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David Skoko’s chocolate chilli nibbles

23 November 2011 Cakes
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In researching recipes for my Croatian category I stumbled upon a great travel blog written and photographed by Zürich-based Kerrin Rousset. The Croatian category on her site MyKugelhopf drew me in and reminded me how much I loved travelling around Croatia on my only visit almost ten years ago. Kerrins travels through Istria, the northern region, took [...]

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Crni rižoto – black risotto

2 November 2011 Croatian
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The cuisine of Croatia can be quite diverse from the meat-rich inland, dishes laced with truffle in Istria and the seafood-heavy coastline. My parents lived far from the coast when they grew up in that part of the world, chowing on food prepared in a very simple fashion. Meats like duck, pig and pheasant were generally hunted and fish [...]

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Domaca kobàsica – homemade sausages

21 March 2011 Croatian
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Some of the best recipes are the ones that haven’t been overly tampered with. Less is more, as they say. When I visited Brisbane late last year to see the family I put in a request to my folks a couple of weeks before I landed. A request for some of my dads homemade sausages, or kobàsica as we call [...]

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Oblatne – Croatian wafer cake

27 January 2011 Cakes
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One of the most common cakes to be floating around the house when I was growing up is the light and moreish oblatne, a wafer cake layered with a luscious chocolate paste. I don’t think my mother ever put ground nuts through it so I’ve broken family tradition by doing so. It really works. This [...]

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Poteca – nut roll

2 January 2011 Cakes
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It may be a little hazy, but one of my fondest memories was tip-toeing around the front room at my brothers god-parents house in Pymble. I reckon I was about 7 or 8 at the time and remember a room full of traditional Croatian pastries on covered plates and in plastic containers. It was the sweetest smelling [...]

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Sarma – cabbage rolls

3 August 2010 Croatian
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The other weekend my Mum decided to fly down from Brisbane and spend a few days while Mr K jetted off to Vegas for a work trip. Not only was it great hanging out with her but I took the opportunity and asked if she could make her delicious sarma, something I hadn’t eaten for many years. If [...]

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