
Last Posted Recipe: Feb 28, 2017

Apricot Raisin Walnut Cookie Boats
Apricot raisin walnut cookie boats: a simple cookie with a complicated name. Apricots and raisins ground in a meat grinder, combined with sugar and chocolate, then topped off with a walnut.
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Fig Truffles With Rum
Fig truffles with rum. Have you heard a sweeter sentence in your entire life? Dry figs integrated with chocolate and rum, then rolled in coarsely ground almonds for the win!
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Macedonian Baked Beans- Quick Version
Macedonian baked beans are a beloved classic. This easy, 3-ingredient version will bring you the best taste in the quickest amount of time.
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Breaded Eggplant and Zucchini
Breaded eggplant and zucchini: if you’ve ever had doubts about these two, now is the time to put them to rest. Tough but dewy eggplant and zucchini, dipped in flour and egg, then frizzled until they achieve a perfectly crunchy softness.
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3-Ingredient Kale Stew
Garlic, potatoes and kale are all that’s necessary to make this invigorating stew. What we have here is a vegetarian dish to keep you full and energized until the next day’s breakfast.
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Creamy Saffron Shrimp Sauce
Rich saffron shrimp sauce with pasta. Creamy shrimp sauce with subtle hints of honey achieved with a pinch of saffron. A 10-minute, 8-ingredient dish that tastes like a million bucks.
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Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles
Chocolate hazelnut truffles, just the right amount of sweetness and the right amount of crunch. 30-min from start to finish.
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Easy 30-min Cocoa Cake
Easy 30 minute cocoa cake with egg-white frosting. Scrumptious, soft and moist: a perfect and quick weekend dessert.
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Chicken Turnovers
Chicken turnovers: a healthy veggie stuffing (bell peppers, corn, peas and tomatoes), combined with chicken breast, wrapped in dough, and then baked. It’s like a salad, main course, and a side all in one.
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Dalmatian Tomato Sauce
Dalmatian tomato sauce is one of the simplest recipes for the freshest, most rich tomato sauce you’ve ever tried, coming to you straight from the Balkan coast. It takes 1 hour from start to finish, and keeps in fridge for a few days.
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Lazy Apple Pie
Lazy apple pie is a three level (crust-filling-crust) dessert. For an under-an-hour, few ingredients you already have in the kitchen, kind of dessert, this layered apple pie is quite impressive.
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Baked Pasta With Cheese
Baked pasta with cheese is another in a series of one-pan, under an hour recipes. Chewy and soft, you get all the necessary ingredients in this one, your carbs and proteins. Just add a salad for some greens.
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Coconut Raffaello Balls
Easiest and most delicious Coconut Raffaello Balls recipe in the world. I promise!
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Egg Drop Soup
Egg drop soup recipe: appetizer choice you’ll never regret! This 20-min, heart warming soup will bring the family back to the dinner table. What are you waiting for?
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Breaded Baked Zucchini
MUST SEE – BLB’s best side dish yet, breaded and baked zucchini. Smooth. Soft. Looks complicated. Uncomplicated in practice.
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Fried Mini Breads
Make yours a perfect bite with these savory pastries with a hundred names: Balkan fried mini breads.
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Bean Stew With Kielbasa
Balkan bean stew with kielbasa: a perfect hearty stew for these cold winter days.
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Chicken Liver Sauce
Controversial, fantastic, and easy chicken liver sauce : those that didn’t eat it before will love it, and those who did will love it even more.
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Crustless Spinach and Cheese Pie
Crustless Spinach and Cheese Pie is a forty minute, perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner kind of healthy option for the days when you don’t know what to make.
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Balkan Ratatouille
Balkan Ratatouille is a rich vegetarian dinner dish. Meat lovers are welcome to add grilled chicken or beef on the side. Let this one simmer for a while and then dip in, not with utensils but with bread.
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Hash Brown Bacon Pie
Hash Brown Bacon Pie is exactly what it sounds: heavenly tasting grated potatoes, combined and baked with bacon bits.
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Shopska Salad
Shopska salad is a light, spring salad consisting of veggies with grated cheese on top. Perfect to take to a barbecue.
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Zucchini Pie
Zucchini pie is a savory pie with a refreshing kick, made with phyllo and zucchini cubes.
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Potato Soup
Here’s a fantastic potato soup recipe! This one is so rich and thick, it can easily become a meal of its own when accompanied with a big chunk of bread.
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Fermented Juniper Berry Juice
Fermented Juniper Berry Juice (aka smreka), is a sour and refreshing, lemonade-like beverage, perfect for quenching the thirst on a warm evening.
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Romano Bean Stew With Veal
Step into spring with the Romano Bean Stew with Veal, an excellent alternative to the heavier goulash and other winter stews.
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Elderflower Cordial
Elderflower cordial (aka zova) is an invigorating, and fresh, homemade juice made from the elderberry tree flowers. If you find regular juices too heavy and water too light, then the elderflower cordial is the drink for you.
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Ground Beef Patties
Ground beef patties: soft and versatile, pair these up with any side dish, and eat them for any occasion. Can you put them in some bread and make picnic sandwiches? Sure. Serve along with mashed potatoes for dinner? That works too!
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Potato Stuffed Peppers
Potato stuffed peppers: now let’s see how easily you can take two common ingredients and transform them into a delicious, one-pan, vegetarian meal that will make even the most stubborn of meat eaters pant for more.
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Mint Cordial
Is there anything more revitalizing on a hot day than a mint drink (in our case mint cordial)? This syrup will change the way you make your juice, mojito, and more. Mint, water, sugar and citric acid are all you need for this sip from heaven.
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Dalmatian Fried Calamari
I hope today’s crispy and sensational, Dalmatian fried calamari (przene dalmatinske lignje) will inspire you to put some seafood on this week’s menu.
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Red Pilaf With Turkey Breast
If you like rice, you’ll love today’s red pilaf with turkey breast chunks (crveni pilav sa curetinom): original, flavorful, and most importantly, it takes less than 30 minutes from start to finish.
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Tuna And Egg Salad
Guaranteed to exchange your present tuna and egg salad (salata od jaja i tunjevine) recipe: fresh, infused with veggies, topped with a classic vinaigrette. Pin now so you remember to make it for lunch.
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Balkan Gourmet Hamburger
Balkan pljeskavice: gourmet patties for people who are tired of plain hamburgers! Tease your tastebuds with a balanced combination of meat and spices grilled to perfection, then adorned in a moist bun.
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Nutella Rolls
Say HELLO to your new favorite pastry: Nutella rolls! Warm, soft and comforting on the outside, smooth and chocolaty on the inside. This is what dreams are made of.
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