by Auntie Bulgaria | Oct 19, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
You’ll have to forgive the slightly sporadic posting of late. Work is busy-busy to an almost oh-dear-I’ve-slightly-overcommitted-myself level. Which, as someone who has zero problem saying ‘no’, is unusual for me. Still, I’m not complaining. Work is what keeps us in...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Oct 1, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
Isn’t autumn the best? I mean, today is dark, rainy and freezing – it’s a chilly 8°C right now, when this time last week it was almost 30°C – but who doesn’t love an opportunity to wrap themselves up in an oversized cardigan and legitimately wear Ugg boots?* ...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Aug 10, 2018 | Food & recipes, Gardening bore
Cake. Surely the best use of a vegetable? I’ve not yet found a great way to preserve courgettes. We recently tried fermenting courgette batons in brine (mixed with dill flowers, horseradish leaves and sour cherry leaves of all things – it’s a Ukrainian recipe)....
by Auntie Bulgaria | Aug 2, 2018 | Food & recipes
I love vegetables. No, really, I do. We only eat meat once or twice a month as a treat, so vegetables, grains and dairy make up the bulk of our diet. (After watching some eye-opening documentaries lately about intensive farming and the impact of dairy on our bodies, I...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 21, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
The garden is ramping up and feeding us regularly, despite last week’s epic storms. In fact, we’ve eaten (small) beetroot, (even smaller) courgettes and (lots of) tomatoes from the garden every day this week. Our early Latah tomatoes, and spoils from the first...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 23, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
It’s been a really mild and easy January so far. We’ve only got about three inches of snow on the ground from yesterday’s snowfall, the first snow of 2018. The road is pretty clear. The temperature is hovering around zero when we get up in the mornings, which...
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