| Macedonian Cuisine |
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| Leb (bread) |
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Ingredients needed
• 1 package (1 tablespoon) active dry yeast
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 1/4 cups warm water
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon sugar
How to prepare:
In a mixing bowl, combine yeast with 1 1/2 cups of flour. Combine water, oil, salt, and sugar and add to yeast mixture. Bea... |
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| Home Made "Pogacha" with Eggs |
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Ingredients:
• 750 gr. - 1kg flour
• salt
• 2 tablespoons lukewarm milk or water
• 20 gr. fresh yeast
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 dl. oil
• lukewarm water as needed
• 2-3 eggs
• salt
• lard or oil for greasing
• flour for dusting
Sift flour. Crumble yeast, add some sugar, some flour and lukewarm water or m... |
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| Tavche Gravche |
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Ingredients needed:
• 500g of bean
• 1 onion
• 100ml of cooking oil
• 2-3 pieces of red dry capsicum
• pepper, salt, flour, parsley, mint
How to prepare:
Wash the bean and leave it to stay in water over night. After that cook it till it boils; drain it and put it in another hot water. Then add chopped onion and... |
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| Turli Tava |
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How to prepare:
Chop meat and fresh vegetable and put it in a pottery saucepan. Add spices, stir and then add cooking oil and water. Don't put too much water, just enough so that the turli tava is soft after cooking.
Put the saucepan in the oven and cook it at 200 degrees for an hour and a half. During that time, stir two-t... |
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| Burek with white cheese |
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Burek
• 1 pkg dry yeast
• 1/4 c lukewarm water
• 1/4 tsp sugar
• 3 1/3 c all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 c lukewarm water
• 1/2 melted butter
Filling
• 9 eggs (slightly beaten)
• 1/2 lb crumbled feta cheese
• 3 TB melted butter
Butter a large round pan (15-16 in) and set aside. Prepare yeast with 1... |
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| Wine culture |
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| Tips for Getting Into Wine |
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Many people who were not raised in a wine drinking family decide they want to start drinking wine in their adult years, both because it adds a lovely flavor to meals and because of the health benefits. How do you get started with healthy wine drinking?
First off, it would be impossible for me (or any other 3rd party) to tell y... |
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| How Wine is Made |
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Each of us is evolving in our personal cultural experience. Perhaps you too have come to the place where you're ready to experience more adventure as a connoisseur. There is culture in wine. It can be found in the ritual of drinking it, appreciating the craft of the winemaker, and in the wine's stimulation to our taste buds. And... |
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| Wine Basics for Beginners |
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Each of us is evolving in our personal cultural experience. Perhaps you too have come to the place where you're ready to experience more adventure as a connoisseur. There is culture in wine. It can be found in the ritual of drinking it, appreciating the craft of the winemaker, and in the wine's stimulation to our taste buds. And... |
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| Champagne and Sparkling Wine Tips |
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Champagne is a region of France, and only wines which come from this region can properly be called "Champagne". Similar drinks from the rest of the world should be called "sparkling wines".
Champagne's signature bubbles were included by accident! Back in the 1700s, wine was supposed to be flat, like most wine is today. Bubb... |
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