by Auntie Bulgaria | Sep 15, 2023 | Food & recipes, Bulgarian life
You may not expect this of me, sweary, dungaree-devotee that I am, but I’m surprisingly into visualisation and manifestation. No, really. Woo woo me up, baby. I draw the line at crystals and horoscopes (with apologies to crystal- and astrology-lovers – you do you),... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Sep 1, 2023 | Food & recipes, Gardening bore
I dare not venture into the garden during daylight hours. The second I sneak into the veg patch, our elderly neighbour pops up on his side of the fence and yells (in Bulgarian), ‘Do you want some courgettes?’ Each time, I firmly remind him that we have four courgette... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 31, 2023 | Food & recipes
Not going to lie, this recipe has so many things that should make me hate it. I have to wrestle my food processor out from the cupboard. There’s the frying of onions. (As a human smell sponge, I usually nope out of any recipe that starts with caramelising onions.) It... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 6, 2023 | Food & recipes
I don’t mind admitting I’ve been on a journey with tofu. A journey that started with me as a staunch tofu sceptic and has arrived here, at the point where I get nervous if I have fewer than four blocks of tofu in the fridge. You, too, can learn to love tofu to this... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | May 25, 2023 | Food & recipes, Gardening bore
Earlier this year I started brewing my own ginger beer, following instructions in the River Cottage Fermentation Handbook, and I’ve been making batches regularly ever since. My ginger bug – the ginger and sugar concoction that’s used to kickstart fermentation – lives... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 2, 2023 | Food & recipes
I never used to pay attention to food prices. We live a frugal life, have old cars, go on cheap holidays, cut our own hair, and wear second-hand clothes. And because of that, I’ve always given myself licence to buy whatever food and drink I want, without restriction...
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