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An ancient Etruscan text mentions a meat ragout that has certain similarities with the ragu bolognese. It consists of beef and vegetables and is cooked for hours.
Of course, ingredients such as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes and corn are omitted from a pre-Columbian recipe in Europe, as they all come from the New World. In addition, back then, as was the case with the Romans later, cooking was not done with salt but with liquamen or...
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Basil is more located in the Italian than in the German cuisine, but in very old mushroom dishes it is very well used in German recipes. This recipe is from the German Silesians, which were expelled to 99% after WW2. Now this land is Polish but the refugees had their recipes in their baggage.
I suspect that the dish was originally made with roast cuts, but try to get something like this without pre-ordering and possibly weeks of...
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As you can easily see from the few dessert recipes, I am not a "sweet tooth" and apart from pizza dough I am suspicious of anything made from flour and other baking ingredients. But since the pastry portion of the recipe is already bought ready-made, after long deliberation I dared to try a tiramisu. As is well known, this is done with a little amaretto liqueur, which I swapped for an amaretto syrup.
This preserves the taste of the...
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In contrast to the older recipe, the sauce should be a real tomato sauce, really hot and with a lot of garlic. I managed to do this with the help of 1/2 Bhut jolokia and 5 large cloves of garlic. For 90% of all Europeans, the sauce would be clearly too hot. So I cooked an alternative tomato sauce for my sweetheart and only added 2 tablespoons of the hot sauce to it, even then she still grumbled that it was too hot. The seafood was...
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Djuvec has become a very diffuse term. Some mean the rice that is served with the famous Balkan dishes Rasniji or Cevapcici, others mean Serbian rice meat. After reading up on the subject, I learned that originally it was only meat with vegetables and rice was more optional. History or not, in a former Yugoslav, now Croatian/Serbian restaurant it was and is served as a kind of stew with meat, vegetables and rice, and that's how I got...