Hi all,I thought I had already written the recipe for Cream of Mushrooms Soup. Appears not. Let’s correct that. This is one of the first soups I got from my Grandmas cookbook. Or cook-notebook to be precise. It was written by hand in her notebook, that had many of delicious recipes. Some of them I Read More >

Hi all, I wanted to find a way to carry my seeds to the garden a bit more easily. And also to close the opened seed packets a bit better. And I think I found it. I saw on Pinterest how some people store the seeds packets in the photo album, and thought “Ah, that’s Read More >

Hi all,this year we sold our old house. And I wanted to keep some of the plants that I had there. Namely Sedum Neon. I really like the bright green-yellow leaves with the bright pink flowers. Since I could not carry the entire plant with me, I opted to carry the leaves. Small, compact, fits Read More >

Hi,this is one of the quintessential autumn comfy foods that I cook every year. Since we would go picking mushrooms in autumn, I associate fall with mushrooms. And thus crave this dish. It is a Croatian version of goulash, and uses bacon as a main fat. On fat rendered out of bacon we brown the Read More >

Hi,we went to Croatia for our vacation. And I got my paws on some family recipes and some that I collected over the years. I am now starting to digitalise them, so they are easier to share between us girls, and also I will be able to share them with you 🙂 . The first Read More >

Hi,I recently realised that my family does musaka or moussaka differently than the rest, or at least the greek restaurants around me. One of the main differences being that we omit using béchamel sauce. We use only sour cream or combo of sour cream or yoghurt and egg. This makes our version low carb or Read More >

Hi guys,this weekend I really really wanted to eat mlinci (pronounced as mlintzi). So I found the recipe from my grandma, and I opted to share it with you. My family has always done them stovetop, but this time I’d bake them on the highest temp in the oven. Mlinci are a bit special, since Read More >

Hi all,my husband loathes this dish, so I make it only occasionally. But the trick to the cabbage pasta is to caramelise the onions and cabbage until the are brown This gives the cabbage a specific piquant aroma. It is very hard to describe. This dish is super easy to make in a vegan version, Read More >

Hi all,I was a bit tired of constantly buying new pillows and decided to renew some old ones by re-filling them. This process is the same as for filling pillows from scratch. The only difference is that if you are filling new pillows you won’t have to mix the fillings. You will just stuff the Read More >

Hi all, The first winter storms peeled away our tool shed roof, and we had to fix it. Well, we did fix it, but we are not 100% sure we did that correctly. Today we had an extra-strong winter storm with hurricane winds, so if this roof withstood that, then we’re golden. I made a Read More >