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The lamb "drob" The lamb "drob" is a traditional recipe for easter in romania using the lamb organs. Today was the first time I did one, really happy with the result :)

I agree I agree, in fact the main reason for doing this myself is trying to avoid all those chemically done pickles.

Cellophane My grand mother was using glass jars with cellophane coating and she was boiling them after. I always thought it was to remove the air as she did that for all the jars she was preparing.

pickle thiefs In my house too, just wait for me to catch them :)

Stinging nettles Finally, spring, gives me a big pleasure to finally eat the stinging nettles which causes so much pain during the summer excursions. Eat them while they are small :)

Pealing Kind of difficult to peal each of them while hot as they are not as good when cold. How do you peal them?

Thank you LEFSElover. The smoked plums are becoming very rare here also. I only know of a source. There is also a dish based on them as many other dishes for the Christmas fast.

Stewed cabbage with pasta and bean paste Today's table: The ingredients: - stewed cabbage with pasta and smoke dried plums - bean paste with lots of onion tomatoes sauce (until here the dish is good agrees with the Christmas fast) - grilled sausages for the rest - sweet (almost liquor) 5...

For me lovage and parsley are the most common herbs you can find everywhere in the market for most of the year. Lovage has a nice flavor at it's added at the end because it looses the aroma if boiled. Parsley is stronger. Sometimes I also use summer savory (Satureia hortensis) for cooked meat as...

Carrots and tomatoes There are the carrots which are more orange than red and the tomatoes.

The autumn soup It has been cold today, it rained and it was very windy. I've listened to the drums concert with a bit of extra cold in the heart so I've decided to heat a bit up with some soup as I only had some very little bean paste in the fridge. A soup...

Thank you, Mel

Thank you Layla, I think from the picked cucumbers nothing goes to waste, I even like the liquid, usually only the dill sticks remain at the bottom of the jar.

Mel, what are your proportions for vinegar and salt?

Small jars The jars in the picture are very small (750 ml). I wanted to use larger jars but I already had lot of those jars and decided to use them. Normally I have seen pickled cucumbers prepared at home in jars from 1l to 10l or even in 50l barrels in the same way as pickled cabbage.