Clik here to view.
No Animals Were Harmed In This Post
Husband’s Offspring No.1 moved in with us at the end of March. She is a vegetarian (of the most undemanding kind, though) which gives me the right to change the Weekly Menu and add another meatless...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don’t eat all your steak or you can’t do this:
I started this blog with a clear idea to emphasize Serbian food. But, so far, I’ve written about squid, which nobody in my town ate before the 80s, when a restaurant called “032″ (area code for my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hair Apparent
Today was my day off from work. Usually that gives me enough reason to contemplate opening a bottle of bubbly ( not that we have any in stock for similar occasions) and running around the apartment...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Center of the Universe
Every time my parents moved, the kitchen became much larger. Njanja and Deda-Ljubo lived in the big family house where most of the cooking was done outside in the separate summer kitchen. A hallway...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Summer of Cabbage (Apologies to Trevanian)
The summer between seventh and eighth grade was the last summer when just being a child was enough. Sure, I had a huge crush on David Cassidy (which thirteen-year old girl did not in 1977?). I wrote...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Other Side of Thanksgiving: Beef Stew with Chestnuts, Pearl Onions, and...
I know I am not the only one out there experiencing fierce post-Thanksgiving blues. We dutifully ate various incarnations of the smallest turkey I could find for four days, and there is still a hefty...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Magic of Sharing Food: Serbian Creamy Chicken Soup
No matter how many times I tell myself that I am a competent home cook, it takes only a well-intentioned, but misplaced comment from one of my girls to make me roll my eyes in disbelief and grind my...
View Article
