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Daring Bakers, April 2008 – Cheesecake Pops

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This month Daring bakers chalange is hosted by Elle from Feeding My Enthusiasms and Deborah from Taste and Tell. They chose Cheesecake Pops from Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey by Jill O’Connor. It was my first cheesecake and I loved it. And the pops were fun to make too, even though I couldn’t make some funny shapes like I did last…

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Easter Eggs & Carrot Cake

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Today is Easter for me. At my home we usually color the eggs traditionally, but this year I decided to do it a little different (to see how we color the eggs in Serbia, visit Medena’s blog, she wrote step-by-step instructions). As for the cake, after seeing Peabody’s, I couldn’t resist making Dorie’s Carrot Cake. Bill’s Big Carrot Cakefrom Baking:…

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Čvarci

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Čvarci are Serbian delicacy and are chips made out of pig. It is a kind of pork rind. The skin may or may not be attached. The process of producing them is that pieces of bacon and fatty meat are cooked in a large metal pot. After the fat melts and strains, the remaining pieces of meat are fried and…

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Spanakopita With Eggs

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Adapted from Sale & Pepe Serbian issue, april 2008. 2 sheets of puff pastry (250 g each)1 kg spinach2 Tbsp olive oil2 eggs6 boiled eggs500 g ricotta cheese1/2 tsp salt1/4 tsp nutmeg1 egg yolk Cook spinach in boiling water for 5 minutes. Strain the water and finely chop it. Add salt, nutmeg and oil and stir well. Slightly beat eggs…

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