Lamb stew
“The food for the personnel” is food cooked in restaurant, catering or campaign kitchens to feed the ones who are cooking. It rarely has anything …
Tikka masala meatballs
Jamie Oliver says we should buy kaorma or tikka paste instead of the ready made sauces. The problem is the paste is very hard to …
Curry with meatballs
Can you make curry with meatballs? Sure you can! First, prepare the meatballs (by the way, it would be a good idea to make meatballs …
The best potato stew
The other day I made potato popricaș (traditional Hungarian stew). In order to eliminate the confusion, it’s called popricaș because I added a lot of …
Broth and vegetables with Chinese noodles
I “fished” some Chinese noodles from Lidl (there is one in my neighborhood) the other day. I put them to work, meaning I boiled them …
Grilled eggplants and courgettes. With ribs.
I intentionally mentioned the ribs lastly because they’re less important in this story. They could have been absent altogether, as the eggplants and the courgettes …
Fresh pasta with eggplants and bacon
Fresh pasta is that which isn’t dry and which has to be consumed in a rather short time from when it was made, otherwise it …
Marinated veal chop
In the past days I’ve been searching, testing, discovering and researching (not necessarily in this order) beef meat and its relation with the barbecue. I’m …
Cooking in a cast iron kettle #fromRomania
Yesterday was a good day, with a great ending. Doru Panaitescu called me two or three days ago to ask me if I would like …
I’m hungry for omelette
As a child (when I was 3, more precisely) I didn’t know the significance or even the existence of the word “craving”. That wasn’t a …