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Gallo Nero

italian food restaurants 3 Comments

I am proud that finally, I am able to present you a Belgrade restaurant worth recommending. Following up are my impressions, and what Ana, my partner in crime thought you can read here. Colorful plates, polka dots, vintage furniture, figurines… Combination of a simple concept of the owner and head chef Alessandro Daví, relaxed atmosphere and amazing interior in a…

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Homemade Cream Cheese

appetizer cheese 11 Comments

Homemade Cream Cheese (original recipe) 2 l milk (2,8% milk fat) 360 g Bulgarian buttermilk* (3,2% milk fat) Boil milk. Let it get lukewarm and stir in buttermilk. Cover the pot and wrap it in a blanket. Keep like that overnight in a warm place to ferment. It will become curdled during the process. In the morning, line a large…

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Rooster Galantine

dinner french food Sale & Pepe 5 Comments

Rooster Galantine (adapted from Sale & Pepe magazine, Serbian issue for January/February 2011) 1 rooster, about 2 kg* 200 ml Porto 150 g prosciutto, diced 200 g cooked pork tongue, diced** 40 g blanched, peeled pistachios 150 g dry-cured pork tenderloin, diced 200 g bacon, diced 500 g mixture of pork and beef ground meat 200 g Mortadella, diced 2…

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White Pie with Hartshorn Salt

croatian food dessert 14 Comments

I’ve made this pie before. The recipes are almost identical except for the use of an unusual ingredient in this one – hartshorn salt. It is actually ammonium carbonate, a baker’s ammonia and it’s used as a leavening agent since 17th century. What amazes me is how it came to their minds to produce a baking ingredient out of the…

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