Archive for the ‘Potatoes’ Category
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Potato hucksters in Zagreb
There are men who walk the streets of Zagreb bellowing "Krumpira!" at the top of their lungs. They are potato hucksters, and some of them may also offer onions ("Krumpira! Luka!"). When two of them cross paths in the same territory, their ululations remind one of a ...
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
How better to flood the system with pure warmth, energy and fortification than an Irish breakfast? What you see above is black pudding and champ.
Black pudding is a simple blood sausage found throughout most of the UK. I made a batch last week from pork blood, steel-cut oats, onions herbs ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
They didn't tell me that this cheeseburger came with a fried egg, bacon and ham on it. I'll write more about it as soon as I finish metabolizing the bastard sometime next week.
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Listen: Bakalar: John J. Goddard podcast 12.25.2007
The Christmas meal in Croatia nearly always includes bakalar, a simple stew of dried cod and potatoes. It's beyond delectable. The Croatian word bakalar is not only the name of the dish, but also of the fish. It's a derivation of bacalao, the Spanish ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Since running Zagrebački Odrezak as a Sunday brunch item a couple of weeks ago, I've had a pow'rful hankering for Wiener schnitzel. I only got around to shopping for the veal last night and, as luck had it, the supermarket had none to offer. So I bought some inexpensive pork ...
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