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Awake in the Dark: Embracing Insomnia’s Role in Creative Expression
I've been battling insomnia since I was about 14 years old. Wait, no. Scratch that. I've had insomnia since I was 14. I stopped battling it in my early twenties. At some point, when I was juggling college and freelancing with a toddler on my hip, I tapped into the...
Balkan Road Trip Series: The Corfu Edition
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. Two and a half months later, lockdowns and restrictions are slowly being lifted across the world,...
Dicks and Doughnuts (recipe)
TL;DR - My friends are dicks and here's a fab doughnut recipe. Thick and Fluffy Doughnuts 460 g all-purpose flour (t-500 or t-450)150 ml cream (or 100ml heavy cream & 50ml whole milk)100 ml water (tepid)1 large egg (room temp)60 g sugar60 g European-style butter...
Portuguese Milk Bread Buns (with an Asian twist)
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 using a bread maker, wet ingredients, including eggs and butter, go in first, then the dry...
Touring Europe: 7 Cities in 7 Days
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 all an unforeseen, terrible hit-and-run sort of disaster. And it included a train wreck (sort of). Either...
Macedonian Refried Beans or Creole Cassoulet? You Decide.
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 because not all of our immediate family members can agree on what it is. I say it's North Macedonia's...
Rustic Rye Bread Recipe #Baking101
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. Wording my eats For years I've adamantly been refusing to hop on the food blogger wagon. It seems I'm about to...
Understanding the Balkans: ‘100 people, 100 fancies’
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 the correct translation of this proverb. A more correct direct...