Ajvar next for Croatia as I cook and map my way around the world.It’s like a roasted pepper (and aubergine) dippy spread thing, with some vinegar and sugar and stuff.I’m glad I didn’t follow the ‘use 10kg of red peppers’ recipes or I’d have buckets of the stuff.It actually seems to be from Serbia originally […]
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Cook around the world ’23 edition,I did a little count and reckon I’m about a third of the way through so I’m going to push for the rest this year.This is lahm bi ‘ajin or lahmacun, a sort of Middle Eastern meat pizza with no cheese.I think it’s originally Turkish but popular in other countries
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Pure cheat mode on eat around the world, and this pandoro (‘golden bread’ ) is going to be my Italy effort.This is probably not the most obvious choice for Italian food but the reality is that I often eat pizza, pasta, risotto in day to day living. So I’ve gone for a more left field
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Uzbekistan next and this is a go at Plov…which is the same sort of thing as pilaf.It said to invert on a serving plate but I only had a pizza tin and it wasn’t big enough… hence the mess on the cooker I used a Claudia Roden recipe from her book of Jewish food, most
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Chicken paprikash for Hungary in next in my project to cook, eat, drink and map my way around the world,(I’ve abandoned my alphabetical order thing and am just doing random countries.) There is a nice mild warmth from the paprika in this one.
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Norway next on cooking and mapping my way around the world and this is yellow split pea soup, ( ertesuppe ) It’s basically tasting the same as lentil soup.I was afraid of burning them but it could have maybe cooked for longer. I am trying to get more legumes into my life so this was
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Serbia next on cook around the world and this is djuvedj,it’s a common Balkan dish and there are different variations It’s like baked lamb and vegetables with rice, I used risotto rice so it’s nice and creamy. The aubergine took up most of my veg quota but with a bigger dish I’d have squeezed a
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