Petar’s Smokehouse Kitchen: May to October, every year Turn up your volume and choose the full screen option to optimize your viewing experience. Take the 7 minutes to watch the... Read More ...
A Flavourful Celebration of Balkan Flavours There it is, in all its rustic glory: Pava’s Special Meal and Vanja’s favourite home food of all meals his mother made. Pava’s neighbour... Rea...
The Last Sunka of the Lugonja Legacy: Petar Lugonja’s Sunka Such deserved pride on the face of this humble man. Arriving this year, is bittersweet. Vanja’s dad has not been... Read More » ...
Roast Pig: The Welcome Feast One year after the flood that devastated the Lugonja homestead, we are back. One year is too long. Thank God for the telephone and technology.... Read More » **...
The family celebrates together! Saturday, Vanja’s brother’s family came as they were returning from their summer holiday to see the fruits of our labour at Petar’s house, and to spend... ...
Superb Traditional Celebration Meal at Semberski Salas! And on the last day, let there be rest. And a celebration! Waking up last Thursday morning to a cozy clean organized home... Read More »...
And we cried all the way home…. And we are home. Tired, but grateful. Hands cut, burned, scraped and blistered from our labor of love. If you haven’t read After... Read More » ** Rememb...
Or… lunch, supper, snack… guest fare…. This is a family of serious carnivores. Lots of meat, potatoes of some kind, and a salad, usually tomato, with every meal. Don’t forget... Read Mo...
The Outdoor Kitchen (Smoke House) and Serbian Musaka There is a kitchen in the house that Pava only used on rainy days, and through the Winter. In the Summer, she... Read More » ** Remember...
And so it is. Most of you won’t know that in May of 2014 the Serbian Republic of Bosnia was declared a State of Emergency by their government due to... Read More » ** Remember to join %%h...
Phase Two or Lesson Two on my Quest to be a Good Balkan Wife … though impossible as I am seven generations Canadian, but I try! Last year was my... Read More » ** Remember to join %%http:...
What I brought home from our trip: from Paris, Bosnia and Serbia Whenever I travel, I find that I bring home what most travellers may find odd: books, food, and... Read More » ** Remember t...