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Winter veggies gratin with mustard and seeds

Winter veggies gratin with mustard and seeds

Effortless comfort dishes are my favourite in the winter. Those where you put everything together and the ingredients do all the magic by themselves combining their flavours and fragrances. The winter veggies gratin is one of those dishes. Cabbage texture and taste compliment beautifully the 

Sweet potato, white beans and chickpeas orange stew

Sweet potato, white beans and chickpeas orange stew

My mom used to say that “eating with a spoon” several times a week is very important for health. “Eating with a spoon” means eating soups and stews and čorbas (čorba, in Serbian, is a thick soup with chunks of various veggies, pulses and often 

Broccoli, carrot and tofu Asian sticky rice

Broccoli, carrot and tofu Asian sticky rice

I really like Asian rice and noodle takeaways but, to be honest, I’m always a little reluctant about the quality of the ingredients. I always prefer to know what exactly I am eating (hence the idea of the Kwalito application, a few years ago). The 

Corn, pomegranate, walnuts and quinoa salad

Corn, pomegranate, walnuts and quinoa salad

Corn, pomegranate, walnuts, bulgur and quinoa salad, seasoned with fresh herbs, lemon and extra virgin olive oil is fresh, soooo flavourful, full of vitamins and proteins and really beautiful on a plate. When the nutritional quality of food is assured, the color and the visual 

Vitamin packed colourful pickled salad

Vitamin packed colourful pickled salad

In Serbia, like in most of the Central-eastern European countries, we have a tradition of making a stock of specially prepared fruit and veggies for the winter. The range is wide, from all sorts of fruit jams, juices and sirops to various pickled vegetables, including 

Tufahije – walnut stuffed baked apples

Tufahije – walnut stuffed baked apples

Tufahije (it is a plural, tuffaha means apple in Arabic) are one of those simple autumn desserts I looooved when I was a kid. You can find it all around the place in the Balkans but it was brought to us by the Turks from