1. I am 26 year old from Belgrade, Serbia.
2. After years of wandering, I am a final year math student, about a half a year away from graduating.
3. After high school, I enrolled Economy faculty, but got bored and quit. I started working in a casino as a roulette and black jack dealer. It was a fun, but unlike in other countries, extremely under payed job so I quit again and decided that my future occupation should have to do with something that I’ve always been good at, and enjoy even more than cooking and it’s math.
4. How I’ve come to love cooking? Well, it’s kind of very hard not to love it living in Serbia. Here 9 out of 10 houses make their own sauerkraut, ajvar, a couple of different fruit jams, compotes, pickled vegetables… This is a country where most of the farmers make their own vine and rakija (anybody heard of Šljivovica?). And being an Ottoman empire vassal country for 5 centuries blended a lot of their sweet treats into Serbian cuisine. My mother always used do bake something, and growing up, I almost didn’t have a desire for store bought candies, there were so many homemade at home. And after all, there is a true saying about why Serbian people are poor: it’s not that they don’t have any money, it’s the fact that they spend it all on food!
5. The reason I started this blog was the Strawberry Mirror Cake that Daring Bakers made last July. I made it back then, took some photos and was very sorry I wasn’t a part of that. Couple of months later, I’m having a blog, and am a Daring Baker! Last month I did my first challenge – I made a real French bread! I was so proud of myself :).
I am tagging these bloggers:
1. Tea from Live, Love and Eat Desserts
2. Mansy Desai from Fun and Food
3. Zora from 1x umrühren bitte
4. Lucy from Lucy’s Kitchen Notebook
5. A Taste In Heaven from A Taste in Heaven
The rules for the meme:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post, and list their names to link to them.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.
6 Comments
That’s a great pic Marija! of you, and the cake!:) thanks for the tag..I’ll see when I can get to it:)was nice reading about your inspiration to blog! good luck girl!:)
The Strawberry Mirror Cake was when I started getting into blogging too…yours looks very good!
Hello Marija,Nice to “see you”. That strawberry mirror cake sooo oh so very good.
So nice to see you, you are so pretty! Great meme, and cake looks delicious; I’ll have to check it out!So true about Serbians and food; even here in the States I go hunting @ local farmers markets, and I make ajvar, plum jam, tons of canned fruit, and my mom makes sauerkraut. You should see my garage : )Hey, can’t live without stuffed cabbage! : ) My brother will be in Belgrade next week. I had to pass this time, but will travel there next year!Good luck with your upcoming daring bakers’ challenges! Have fun!
Just found your blog! So exciting I want to learn more Serbian recipes especially Lepinja to surprise my Serbian son-in-law. It would be such fun to make lepnja for Marko and Melania my grandchildren-and I can say oh see what baba has made for you to go with the cevapcici.The family has been here 7 years from Glina via Pristina.
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