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Dinner on the Farm

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On our holiday to Croatia, we were lucky to have the opportunity to celebrate my Dad’s birthday together as a family.

We enjoyed the generous hospitality of a relative for the occasion.

They made dinner for us all at their remote farm located about ten minutes out of the main village.

We ate in the shade of a glorious walnut tree as the warm, sun settled behind us.

There was bread, grilled meat, salad and blitva – a traditional Dalmation meal.

Definitive rustic splendour.

Here, you can see the traditional cooking area they have created in their modest, stone farm house.


This is where they rinse off the home-grown vegetables for the salad.

We were truly so fortunate to have had this experience with our family.

It was an evening of balmy, summer delights as we roamed the over-grown country side and enjoyed our celebrations under the boughs of a giant walnut tree.

Many thanks to V&V for their hospitality.

xxx

 

The food in Croatia

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I just realised I forgot to blog about the food I encountered while holidaying in Croatia recently.

There were a few highlights, one of those being the Lobster meal we ate as a family on our last night in Prigradica.

Dad had organised one of the local restaurants to cook us up a three course extravaganza of salted fish, octopus salad for entree, then lobster buzara for our main meal followed by grilled, whole fish and blitva.

Not as glamourous as this special meal, were our daily lunches that I prepared in our little kitchen.

VC was joining on the day this photo was taken, hence the three beers. Thought I better point that out so you didn’t question our drinking habits!

The local beer is Karlovacko. A lovely, light typically European beer.

This next shot is our first night at one of the local restaurants. We’d ordered a little too much food, because we didn’t know how big the serves were.

We did manage to eat it all though. No surprises there.

Whoa…it’s making me hungry looking at it.

And finally, there was AT’s birthday. Obviously I couldn’t get a birthday cake going, so I got some sweeties from the bakery in Blato instead. Mum found a sparkly candle that impressed the boys.

You can see a vanilla slice type of pastry and the two white, rolly cakes on the side were this amazing coconut cake. OMG, I was in heaven eating this. The figs were given to us by the old lady who owned the apartments we stayed in . She knocked on our door with a plate full of these ripe and tasty figs from her tree.