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Allspice how to use in every day cooking

Allspice how to use in every day cooking

Allspice, pimento (pimiento) or Jamaican pepper …  all is the same. When you first came across this spice name, you must have thought this is probably a mixture of many spices in one. I’m not much different from you either. And then I started exploring. Allspice is still a taboo for many of us today. […]

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Cocoa spice / Kako se pravi čokolada? / How to make chocolate

Cocoa spice how to use it in every day cooking?

Cocoa seeds are a basic ingredient in any chocolate. Have you had the opportunity to taste cocoa seeds? I did when I was at the cocoa plantation in the Dominican Republic. It has a strong – bitter taste and needs to be fermented to have a better aroma. After that, the seeds need to be […]

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Škola kuvanja / Cooking school

Cooking school top 5 important things that you will learn

Everything you need to know before you start cooking People often ask me or tell me something like “I want to learn how to cook but I don’t know where to begin”. I must admit that the answer is very complicated so I don’t know where to begin, too. What we must ask ourselves every […]

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Crni-beli luk, black garlic

What is, how to use and how healthy is black garlic?

Have you ever heard of black garlic? I was just as surprised when I learned about it in France. What is black garlic? t is nothing else but the regular garlic, either Serbian domestic, or Chinese kind, except that it is aged and fermented. What happens to it and causes its cloves to turn black […]

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Good olive oil (dobro maslinovo ulje i kako ga izabrati)

How to choose good olive oil in the heap of offered?

Every time when I am thinking about a new bottle of olive oil, I have a big headache. In a minute I have millions of questions in my head. What and how to choose? Which one is fake, which one is not…What is commercial catch or there is not …How can I avoid poisoning by poor […]

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Tips how to choose and pick a good and ripe avocado?

Tips how to choose and pick a good and ripe avocado?

Troubles with avocado If you take a look at most food blogs avocado has nowadays become the irreplaceable grocery that you can mix in everything. It seems as if its creamy structure has conquered the world. Have you ever considered yourself incapable of choosing an avocado that looks like those in the pictures of various […]

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Onion for beginners

Onion for beginners

Its majesty, onion Can you imagine this world without onion? Or any other dish for that matter, without at least putting some garlic into it? We love eating it and use every opportunity we get. Of course, when we’re certain we wouldn’t be leaving the house 🙂 We would sometimes buy it during our summer […]

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Food Saver Crock Pot

How Food Saver and Crock Pot helped me?

On my own To be honest, I am no longer sure if it was the age, or just the back that betrayed me this time. The first thing a person reaches for, not thinking about the consequences, once they find themselves in a situation like this, is ‘I should eat something sweet to cheer up’. […]

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weekly meal planner grocery shopping list food saver

How I made easy savings in houshold budget

Hungry eyes Just how hard it is to feed your hungry eyes! The worst thing is that I like this… and that… I would try this… and that… I could mix this with that… a never ending circle. Those hungry eyes of mine are the reason I end up buying all those things I know […]

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