by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 29, 2024 | Food & recipes
Serious question, do any of you make bread with proper bread flour? When we first moved to Bulgaria, bread flour was hard to find (and more expensive), so we’ve always made do with plain flour. And I assumed – in that way you do, assuming everyone else is exactly the...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 12, 2024 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
Greetings from a very cold Bulgaria. We’ve not got much snow, but what we have got is sparkly-sparkly, like a dusting of glitter on a 1990s movie star’s chestal region. Well, what a mashup this week’s post is. To start, let’s discuss my usual post-Christmas breakdown,...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Dec 22, 2023 | Bulgarian life
Crikey, it’s the end of another year. Just as I was getting used to the idea that it was 2023, here comes 2024. I can see it now, boogieing over the horizon, waving its long, gangly arms in the air and saying, woo-hoo, welcome to your mid-forties, Claire. Which,...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Nov 24, 2023 | Food & recipes, Gardening bore
Yes, it’s the latest in my long-running series of ‘What to do with all those [insert veg that I’ve grown too much of]’. We’ve dug up barely a third of the Jerusalem artichokes and I’m already at a loss. What on earth do I do with them? I’m wracking my brains...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Nov 9, 2023 | Food & recipes
I don’t want to hear the ‘it’s too early to think about Christmas’ complaints. When it comes to Christmas dinner, there’s no such thing as too early in our house. We generally start talking about Christmas dinner in September. Yes, September. While the sun beats down...
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