BakingBalkan Flatbread (Lepinja)
Soft, thick Balkan flatbreads with a lightly crisp crust, made for tearing apart and soaking up sauces.
2 hrServes 4Easy
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SidesBeer-Battered Onion Rings
Cold beer, a lumpy batter and oil that never drops below 180°C. The bubbles in the beer are doing structural work, so mix it at the last possible moment.
40 minServes 4Medium
PizzaChicago Deep-Dish Pizza
Cheese on the bottom, sauce on the top, and a crust closer to pastry than to bread. Built upside down for a reason — forty minutes in the oven would incinerate cheese left on the surface.
5 hrServes 6Hard
MainsOven-Baked BBQ Ribs
No smoker, no grill. Four hours in a low oven, wrapped tight, then glazed and blasted — and one small step at the start that most people skip entirely.
4 hr 30 minServes 4Easy
MainsCrispy Whole Roast Duck
Scalded, lacquered and air-dried overnight before it ever sees the oven. The drying is not a flourish — it is the only way the skin turns to glass.
25 hrServes 4Hard
MainsPan-Roasted Chicken Breast with Pan Sauce
Skin-on breast, started in a cold pan and finished in the oven, with a sauce built from what sticks to the bottom. Dry chicken breast is a timing problem, not a cut problem.
35 minServes 2Medium
SnacksCrispy Baked Chicken Wings
Baking powder and an overnight sit in the fridge, and the skin comes out of the oven as crisp as fried. No pan of hot oil, no clearing up afterwards.
1 hr 30 minServes 4Easy
BakingBrown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Browned butter, chopped chocolate rather than chips, and a rest in the fridge. Three small changes that turn a decent cookie into one worth the oven being on.
1 hrServes 18Easy
DessertsDeep-Dish Apple Pie
Two kinds of apple, cooked down before they go anywhere near the pastry. That precooking is the whole answer to the hollow dome every apple pie threatens to become.
2 hr 30 minServes 8Medium
PizzaNeapolitan Margherita Pizza
A 24-hour cold-fermented dough, uncooked tomato sauce, and the hottest oven you own. Three toppings, and every one of them has to be good.
25 hrServes 4Hard
DessertsCremeschnitte
The Lake Bled custard slice: a thick layer of vanilla custard, a cloud of cream, and two sheets of puff pastry. It needs a long chill, and there is no shortcut.
4 hrServes 12Hard
PastaBaked Mac and Cheese
Cheese grated by hand and added off the heat, so the sauce stays glossy instead of splitting into oily strings under the grill.
55 minServes 6Medium