Lleida, Naltres - Versión española

November 18, 2015

Lleida, Naltres - Versión española

A medio camino entre Barcelona y Zaragoza, encotraremos Lleida. Lleida es ciudad universitaria donde vive y trabaja mi amigo Alex. Alex regenta restaurante It…food&drink en la zona céntrica de la ciudad. Tuve suerte de haber podido disfrutar del Aplec del cargol, uno de los festivales gastronómicos mas importantes en España. Actualmente, el Aplec presenta mas de 100 asociaciones

Lleida, Naltres

November 06, 2015

Lleida, Naltres

Half way from Barcelona to Zaragoza, Lleida is located, a university town in which my friend Alex lives. Alex met us at the restaurant "IT" in the city center from where we began enjoying the snail's festival "APLEC DE Caragol", one of the most popular gastronomic festivals in Spain. This year, the festival presents about 100 associations of

Bakar, Bakarska vodica

October 15, 2015

Bakar, Bakarska vodica

Foto by: Miljenko Segulja We entered Bakar by the old  main Roman road built in the 1st century BC (renovated of course) that follows the coast of the Bakar bay. Foto by: RI prsten - Klaudio Vrancic The area was inhabited in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC. This great cultural heritage can be seen everywhere.  The area

Gnocchi

September 26, 2015

Gnocchi

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Gnocchi The best side dish to Pasticada is gnocchi. Do you make good homemade potato gnocchi?  We have the perfect recipe for you. Ingredients: 750 g potatoes ¾ teaspoon salt 2 egg yolks 1 ½ to 2 cups multi-purpose flour Preparation In salted water boil  potatoes in the shell until tender. Rinse and allow to cool slightly. Peel

Pašticada

September 20, 2015

Pašticada

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My friend Milda and I have decided to write you a recipe for Pasticada. Although we spent a lot of time looking for the "right" pasticada we gave up and here we are giving you one of the possible recipes of the Dalmatian specialties. Milda is from Hvar (who for love moved to Newport News, Virginia) and she

Grape harvest in Vrbnik

September 14, 2015

Grape harvest in Vrbnik

Grape harvest in Vrbnik

Cavtat, Dubrovnik’s Malvasia

September 02, 2015

Cavtat, Dubrovnik’s Malvasia

I am in Cavtat, the hometown of one of the most famous Croatian painter Vlaho Bukovac. Wherever I look I can fall in love with what I see. It is a city that opens your heart, and in it I always want to come back. I wander the cobbled streets looking for a Bukovac house which is located

West Istria (Malvasia, Teran and Momjan Muscat)

August 20, 2015

West Istria (Malvasia, Teran and Momjan Muscat)

My family loves to go to trips and on friend's invitation to spend a weekend in the countryside near the town of Roc in central Istria we hardly waited. The weather was beautiful. In the shade of mulberry tree in front of a stone house while enjoying biska and goat cheese we planned how to spend the next

Korcula Posip III

August 11, 2015

Korcula Posip III

Not far in Zavalatica lives winemaker, poet and sculptor Luke Krajančić. A modest and simple by nature, says he is a small man from small island that does what he loves. There is no doubt that he does it very successfully because the news about him and his fine wines far exceeds the boundaries of his beautiful Zavalatica,