Posted by: Anca on: 11 January 2011
I couldn’t just make one dish, right :p This one is from another part of the country, but who cares! It turned out even more delicious than I thought. 200g sausages 500g lean meat (chicken or pork) 3 big tomatoes dill parsley 50g butter leek 6 big potatoes 1 glass white wine 2 peppers [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 11 January 2011
Since our vacation was 3 weeks in Romania, I got to indulge (may I say over-indulge) in the traditional Romanian Christmas dishes. I won’t go into them, you can check a few of them on this Wiki page. When I came back, I wanted to keep the spirit and cook Romanian. So I chose the [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 19 June 2010
Eggplant for the Americans, aubergine for the English (and Swedish) and vînătă for the Romanians. One of my friends was organizing a Romanian dinner and I wanted to bring something. This is one of my favorite Romanian appetizers and I’ve made my mum crazy every time we go home. She always has some in case [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 23 March 2010
Salutare, I’ve come back to my all-time friend, Bucate, vinuri şi obiceiuri româneşti. I go to this cookbook every time I want to cook the way my mother did. This was my first time doing marinated meatballs and my husband was the expert until now. But not anymore Even though the ‘traditional’ swedish dish is [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 21 March 2010
Hello again, I always try to have some soup or ciorbă in the house. So I was browsing Bucate, vinuri şi obiceiuri româneşti and I randomly chose this soup recipe. It sounded easy and interesting enough.. so why not? If you will like this, you have another ciorbă recipe here. As you can see in [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 23 January 2010
To go along my borş, I chose one of the simplest recipes around. I have never tried it before and now I understand why my grandmother cooked it a lot. It’s not one of the best dishes you ever had and definitely not one of the best Romanian dishes. But it does remind me of [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 23 January 2010
Hello to all of you again, I’ve just added a new cooking book to my collection. It’s called “Bucate, vinuri şi obiceiuri româneşti” – “Romanian dishes, wines and traditions” by Radu Anton Roman. This book is really famous in Romania because it contains a lot of recipes and traditions from all over the country. Since [...]
