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Seared Duck Breast with Korean Pear Sauce
My mother grew up in Vojvodina, the part of the country that was under the Austro-Hungarian rule until the end of WWI. When she married my father and joined him in central Serbia, she brought with her...
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Korean Pear and Tuscan Kale Salad
As the Fall firmly takes a hold even in southern California, at least judging by the calendar, the last brave specimens of the late summer fruit slowly retreat and surrender the coveted shelf space to...
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The Magic of Sharing: Serbian Creamy Chicken Soup
No matter how many times I tell myself that I am a competent home cook, it takes only a well-intentioned, but misplaced comment from one of my girls to make me roll my eyes in disbelief and grind my...
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Cole Train: German Braised Red Cabbage
I have been on a serious German kick lately. Our eternally blue California skies become speckled with fleecy white clouds and I start thinking stews, and dumplings, and root vegetables. I talk to my...
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Are You Ready for Your Teens to Start Driving? IGottaDrive Online Driver’s Ed...
This is a sponsored post with Mums the Word Network and IGottaDrive. All opinions are my own. I started learning how to drive when I was a senior in high school, back in Yugoslavia. I passed the...
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Bristol Farms, Westwood, Grand Re-Opening
Photo by Vickie McCorkendale You can send me to Tiffany’s and I’d probably meander around the aisles for a few moments just to show good graces before exiting in haste with sighs of relief. On the...
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On Motherhood: Mango and Quinoa Salad
I never thought I would have children. I felt somewhat detached from my siblings in our early days, even though all three of us were born within four years. I learned to read when I was four, and was...
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Africa On My Mind: Sweet Potato and Chicken Stew
I have never been to Africa. I listened, entranced, to the stories of wonder my parents’ friends told about working on the dams in Zambia, or building the roads in Zimbabwe, tracing afterwords on the...
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Here Comes the Lent: Serbian Potato Salad
I have never taken February seriously. It was the month right after winter break when my legs still craved the tortuous curves of the moguls on the snow-covered mountain, feeling the weight of the...
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Oriental Studies, My Way: Year of the Ram
At Melissa’s Produce, celebrating the Year of the Ram When I was four years old, I remember Mother packing boxes full of clothes, coats, and shoes, and taking them down to the local Red Cross center to...
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Halloween Story: Freaky Fruit Salad
We don’t celebrate Halloween in Serbia, but I knew all about it as I screamed every time Mike Myers’ face hidden behind the hockey mask appeared on the screen in the movie theater in my home town. I...
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Robert Vs. Robert: The Judge
Photo courtesy of the movie official site I’ve been in LA for six years and some pixie dust has inevitably landed on my shoulders; a few wrap parties, a screening of a short or a documentary, a...
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Corn Bread with Hatch Chiles
Every time I make corn bread I hear my father’s voice telling me how he did not taste any kind of flour bread until the 50s. When he was a youth growing up in post-WWII Yugoslavia, the times were...
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Moms’ Night Out: A Spoke & Weal Salon Event
A few people I consider my close friends know that I hardly spend any time at beauty salons. Not because I have anything against getting pampered, but because I always end up feeling buyers remorse....
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Figs Poached in Red Wine: Figology Fest Part Two
I remember the first time I tasted a fresh fig. I was four that summer, on vacation in Montenegro, with my younger sister and our parents. I remember the feel of hot pebbles and cool Adriatic...
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No More Take-Out: Everyday Thai Cooking Is Here!
Photo by Melissa’s Produce My father spent two weeks in Thailand a decade or so ago, as a participant of an international ObGyn conference. My sister and her husband explored several Thai resorts...
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Peppers, But Were Afraid to Ask:...
The creative and knowledgeable people at Melissa’s Produce have managed to bring forth another beautifully photographed, informative, and immensely useful book: The Great Pepper Cookbook – The...
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Una Sonrisa Menos: Chicken Tortilla Soup
Last Thursday morning, my friend Cipriano boarded a flight from Tijuana to Oaxaca to reunite with his wife, children, and fourteen grandchildren that he had not seen in more than four years. A few...
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Serbian Easter: Naturally Colored Eggs
The days approaching Easter were filled with excitement and anticipation for us while we were growing up in Yugoslavia. As soon as we noticed the envelopes of different dyes and cartons of eggs...
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California Dreaming: Ojai Pixie Tangerine Cake with Caramel Sauce
I am standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes. A coffee maker is gurgling behind me, and to the right the onions and potatoes sizzle in the skillet on the stove. My 70s kitchen could have easily...
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