Appetizers

My favorite kind of soup made with homemade broth, lots of vegetables and turkey meatballs, this is an easy, quick, healthy and delicious soup recipe. I’ve made this particular soup…

Fried zucchini slices, Romanian style, one of the easiest and most delicious ways of enjoying zucchini in summer. This recipe for fried zucchini slices is probably the most common way…

This is the recipe for the typical Romanian Eggplant / Aubergine Salad or spread, made with roasted eggplants and mayonnaise or oil.  Here you have it: an updated post describing…

Romanian or Moldavian placinta cu branza or Romanian Cheese Pie – this is just one version of the many cheese pie recipes you will find in Romania. And I have…

Tender cauliflower florets in a mayonnaise mustard and garlic dressing, this is a typical Romanian salad recipe. This used to be one of my favorite salads as a teenager. Just…

Oven-baked vegetarian patties with cauliflower and potatoes, soft and creamy on the inside and incredibly crispy on the outside. Although baked in the oven these are the crispiest patties I…

A comforting salad full of delicious things like potatoes, beets, olives, carrots, gherkins, eggs and homemade mayonnaise. This would be the vegetarian version of the Romanian Boeuf Salad with Potatoes,…

Drob de pui – a delicious chicken appetizer for the Easter brunch, a twist on the traditional Romanian lamb drob. Romanian Easter Chicken Drob or Pastete or how to get liver…

Tomatoes, peppers and cucumber slices stuffed with three delicious and easy to make cream cheese fillings. Romanian people do love their appetizers. Lots of salami, ham and cheese rolls, stuffed…

Spicy deviled eggs filled with a tuna capers chili mixture, a creamy delight for your Easter brunch. Deviled eggs or oua umplute in Romanian or gefüllte Eier in German, these…