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Croatian

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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Croatian Recipes

10 May 2011 Croatian
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Appetisers David Skoko’s seared tuna Soups & Stews Grah {beans} Krompir juha {potato soup} Meat & poultry Domaca kobàsica {homemade sausage} Primošten kokoš {Primošten chicken} Sarma {cabbage rolls} Smotani govedina {rolled beef} Seafood Crni rižoto {black risotto} David Skoko’s seared tuna Mušule na buzaru {mussels buzara} Sweets David Skoko’s chocolate chilli nibbles Fotelje {couches} Knedle [...]

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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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Krompir juha {potato soup}

13 July 2010 Croatian
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Receiving an sms from Big Bro the other weekend I couldn’t help but feel envious when I heard he was at our parents’ place watching them make sausages with Dad’s makeshift contraption that resembles a massive syringe. I remember when I was a kid helping Dad out with the same syringe, watching with fascination as [...]

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Knedle s šljivama {dumplings with plums}

7 June 2010 Croatian
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There’s one thing that I love to eat that is close to my heart and takes me back to almost forgotten childhood memories. My late grandmother used to make these dumplings for my mother using small prune plums back in Croatia and when moving here my mother adapted the recipe using prunes as she could never find the [...]

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