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Hi, this is the official cake of my home town Slatina. Zahanek cake is a decadent chocolate cake with lots of eggs and not so much flour. I made it completely gluten free, but you can make it with normal cake flour. Zahanek cake The base 10 eggs 6 Tbsp sugar 4 Tbsp flour (gluten Read More >

Hi!As always for Easter, I make my grandma Zlata’s Easter cheese bread.  We traditionally eat it for Easter. My grandma makes it every year. I also started making it and since I’m now in Germany, a long long way from home, I will make my own. So I thought I could share the recipe with Read More >

Hi, this weekend I made a cauliflower soup. Cauliflower is actually a great vegetable that is really underestimated. Most of the people do it unjustice by overcooking it and get the classic pungent aroma of overcooked cauliflower. That is the reason my husband doesn’t like it. So when my sister in law and me decided Read More >

Hi, this year I successfully grew swiss chard in the container, so it’s time do do the traditional soparnik. Soparnik is a dish that dates waaay back. Like several centuries old. No one is sure how old it is, it’s been around since Ottoman empire. It’s a dish that was eaten by peasants in Poljička Read More >

Hi, I made this zucchini and carrot soup yesterday for lunch. I was surprised to see that my hubby actually liked it even though it had zucchini and coconut cream. This is a completely vegan friendly recipe that you should definitively try. Also you can use green zucchini, it will just have a bit different Read More >

Hi, the biggest heatwave of the year has started and I want to eat something light. I prefer to go vegetarian and not eat meat during the heat, luckily my hubby doesn’t mind. This squash burgers recipe is one of the recipes that I enjoyed during my vegetarian years and I still enjoy it. Here Read More >

Hi, this is a pasta recipe from my vegetarian days. It’s very easy to make this  recipe vegetarian by omitting the meat or substituting it with soy meat. If you are looking for healthy pasta recipe then this one might be for you. It is a light recipe with a lot of fresh veg and delicious. Read More >

Hi, like i mentioned in post Sour Cherry Syrup. We raided my Mums backyard and brought back some red currants. Red currants are my favourite fruit ever since I was a little girl. I enjoy their tartness and their taste. And they look like little rubies. So naturally one of my favourite juices is red Read More >

Hi, we raided my Mums backyard a week ago. And brought with us sour cherries and red currants. I made us some preserves from those fruit. We pitted the cherries and put them in the freezer bags and froze them. So we can use them in the winter time to make some cherry desserts. The Read More >

Hi, this year for cherry preserves I decided to do a sweet cherry pie filling. It has a bit of zing because of the lime, and spiciness of cinnamon. The biggest task here is pitting all of the cherries. Say goodbye to nice nails for a while. Sweet cherries I got weren’t especially big or Read More >