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Balkan Road Trip Series: The Corfu Edition

Balkan Road Trip Series: The Corfu Edition

  • Niki Radisic
  • May 14, 2020May 14, 2020
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The first draft of this, our third Balkan road trip edition in a year, was written in early February 2020, before the world took a pandemic-induced turn for the worse.

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Dicks and Doughnuts (recipe)

Dicks and Doughnuts (recipe)

  • Niki Radisic
  • April 21, 2020May 14, 2020
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TL;DR – My friends are dicks and here’s a fab doughnut recipe. Full recipe (includes life story, baking tips, and swearing): Unpopular opinion: I don’t much like the vast majority

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Portuguese Milk Bread Buns (with an Asian twist)

Portuguese Milk Bread Buns (with an Asian twist)

  • Niki Radisic
  • April 6, 2020June 8, 2020
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TL;DR – here’s the recipe: UPDATE – Additional notes for this recipe: Feel free to drop the sweetened condensed milk and add another 20ml of whole milk instead. If you’re

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Touring Europe: 7 Cities in 7 Days

Touring Europe: 7 Cities in 7 Days

  • Niki Radisic
  • February 28, 2020April 28, 2020
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Author’s note: Unless you’re going for some sort of record (and getting paid for it) touring 7 European cities in 7 days shouldn’t be on your bucket list. It was

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Macedonian Refried Beans or Creole Cassoulet? You decide.

Macedonian Refried Beans or Creole Cassoulet? You decide.

  • Niki Radisic
  • September 11, 2019September 11, 2019
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I made a bean, beef sausage and pork dish the other day that we’ve been talking about since. Not because it was so fantastic (although it wasn’t terrible either), but

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Rustic Rye Bread Recipe #Baking101

Rustic Rye Bread Recipe #Baking101

  • Niki Radisic
  • September 7, 2019September 7, 2019
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Despite the total time needed for a loaf of this rustic bread to emerge from the oven, this simple rye bread recipe is one of the easiest I’ve come across.

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Quick Sourdough Starter Hack

Quick Sourdough Starter Hack

  • Niki Radisic
  • September 7, 2019September 7, 2019
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This sourdough starter hack IS NOT the real deal, but it is a quick and acceptable replacement. Using ingredients readily available almost anywhere in the world, it gets things done,

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Understanding the Balkans: ‘100 people, 100 fancies’

Understanding the Balkans: ‘100 people, 100 fancies’

  • Niki Radisic
  • August 1, 2019September 8, 2019
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Author’s note: You will need some previous knowledge or experience with the Balkans to understand this post. Serbian proverb: ‘Sto ljudi, sto ćudi.’ The headline, quite deliberately, doesn’t render quite

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Danica Niki Radisic

Danica Niki Radisic

NIKI (proper noun):

Nickname derived from the constant mispronunciation of the Slavic name Danica (DAH-NEE-TZA). It stuck.

BGD (abr.):

Abbreviation for “be good”, as in Johnny B. Goode. Also, one of Niki’s favorite guitar riffs of all time. Often mistaken for the abbreviation for Belgrade, where Niki lived for over 20 years.

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