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Today we bring you several fish dishes.

The Nativity Fast has started for orthodox Christians. While all meat is forbidden, fish is permitted on certain days. One of the...

The first recipe we bring you today is the one for monastic sour soup. For that, we need several potatoes, one small cabbage, two onions, two...

For the Christmas fasting period in the Orthodox church and in Romanias traditional households, vegetarian dishes are the norm, with no meat and no dairy products added

Transylvania is seen to have fatty and heavy dishes traditionally

Pumpkin is a ubiquitous ingredient in European cooking

Every place has its own sound. Every place has its background noise. Listen to the sounds of a number of selected sites in Romania and compare them...

We are in the season when plenty of Romanians prepare for winter by cooking pickles, jam and stewed fruit

To make the polenta, take cornmeal and boil it with salt to taste. After cooling it, place a layer on the bottom of a cooking vessel. Over it place a...

Lets experiment the recipe for a shepherd dish, called in Romanian 'bulz'. It is a preparation based on polenta, mixed with sharp cheese

Today we are going to Oltenia, an area in the southeast of Romania.

For Romanians, the most popular way to prepare aubergines is to puree them.

With markets in Romania now full of all types of vegetables, todays recipe is blends chicken and vegetables, but with a twist.

This time we invite you to try recipes involving eggplant, or, as they are known in British English, aubergines. The...

We invite you to try recipes involving eggplant