by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 20, 2022 | Food & recipes
Very exciting news from our corner of Bulgaria: we’ve now got a Fantastico supermarket near us. I say ‘near’, it’s a 50-mile round trip. But that’s as close as any big supermarkets get for us. (There’s a small T-Market in our nearest town, about 10 miles away, which... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 6, 2022 | Food & recipes
I have a habit of adopting trends several years after everyone else. It’s like an in-built aversion to doing anything popular at the time that it’s popular. For some reason, I wait until the popular thing has eventually tipped over into cliché and everyone’s... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Nov 19, 2021 | Food & recipes
A LOT of people asked me about veganism when I was back home. And the prevailing sentiment was, ‘I could never give up cheese’. Believe me, I get it. I was the same. We’d watch all those documentaries about the horrors of factory farming and I’d say ‘We should go... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 30, 2021 | Gardening bore, Food & recipes
Always one for trying something new (*cough* bullshit *cough*) I did something a bit different with my beetroot this year. I tried the ‘multi-sowing’ (cluster-sowing) method espoused by Charles Dowding, the guy who made no dig gardening famous. If any form of... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 18, 2021 | Food & recipes
I realise this post would have been more timely back in the autumn, when squash and pumpkin were everywhere in the shops. But if you grow your own squash, as we do, you’ll still have loads left from the autumn (cured properly in a sunny, warm spot squash will keep for... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Feb 18, 2021 | Food & recipes
As someone who’s constantly obsessed with my next meal, I’m still surprised how much I’ve focused in on food during this whole pandemic thing. Which is partly why I’m enjoying Instagram so much. (If you aren’t yet following me, I’m @auntie_bulgaria. I share lots of...
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