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Musings on recipes and goulash

Klemen Košir, 6. 9. 2019

These days, I've been talking about the art of writing cooking recipes with Katja Jenčič, translator and book editor. As we were going over notes for ...

Bitter-sweet “čimulice” (chee-moo-lee-tse)

Klemen Košir, 22. 2. 2019

Are you wondering what is hiding behind the meaning of “čimula”, a mysterious word whose pronunciation makes our ears tingle with curiosity? Čima, čim ...

Lamb, twice

Klemen Košir, 2. 11. 2018

At the beginning of last month, I moved to Vrhovci with my family. We arranged our new home, next to the creek of Mali graben and slowly started to ex ...

The Trenta Valley and the Bovec Pockets Dessert

Klemen Košir, 17. 5. 2018

Our family spent this year’s winter holidays in the Trenta valley. The weather was, typical for the Julian Alps region, unpredictable and fickle. The ...

Aunt beetroot and uncle borscht

Klemen Košir, 8. 3. 2018

“ These iron curtains of the old wench are pulling beetroots” is a known text phrase of our Slovene punk band Pankrti, which sang it in the beginning ...

Hiking boots and a happy 2018

Klemen Košir, 28. 12. 2017

I bought myself new hiking boots. I will hike and travel in them to mountains and over hills and greet unknown people with an honest and cheerful »goo ...

P for persimmon

Klemen Košir, 17. 11. 2017

In autumn, when nature turns its visual pallet into all kinds of earthy colors and the wind blows away the leaves on almost every tree, we suddenly lo ...

Šugo

Klemen Košir, 15. 9. 2017

In our family, this is what we call homemade tomato paste. The name is familar to me, because the etymological ear clearly places the sauce in the wor ...

Hot cucumber soup

Klemen Košir, 21. 7. 2017

I have to share this recipe with you, because this soup is absolutely delicious, the preparation and cooking time is really short and it’s easy to mak ...