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 | May 18, 2020 | Food & recipes
Firing up the pizza oven for the first time this year. Being the borderline millennial clichés that we are, it was only a matter of time before we started eating vegan-ish. We already ate vegetarian 95% of the time (the other 5% being a weakness for barbecue ribs).... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Apr 3, 2020 | Bulgarian life
This end-of-March snow was an outrage. We’ve had a snowy couple of weeks here, which has lent an ‘interesting’ new dimension to the whole self-isolation thing. We’ve been indoors for almost two weeks. No spending time in the garden. No popping to the... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Nov 19, 2019 | Bulgarian life
If you were wondering why I’d been a bit quiet lately, it’s because I was visiting in the UK, and then going through the customary readjustment to Bulgarian life. It’s like jet lag (life lag?), where the culture shock takes a while to wear off. Our house seems too... 
by Auntie Bulgaria | Sep 19, 2019 | Bulgarian life
Hot as it’s been during the day lately, there’s a definite feel of autumn in the air. I’m scribbling this outside as, next to me, Rob scrats the apples for this year’s cider. I wish you could smell what I smell right now. It’s a mixture of apple juice and red wine –...
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