Easy appetizer recipes such as eggplant and bean dip, Charcuterie boards, all kinds of finger food and cheeses, you name it! The easiest and fastest appetizer recipes are here for you to try and enjoy.
Since the age of 6 I have been cooking and creating new, simple recipes. Since 2012, I have been focusing on easy recipes for busy people, as helping others not only brings good karma, but primarily makes us feel really good! Talking about karma, check out my self-realization journey for more details on how cooking and meditation are the same thing.
Students and young professionals, mothers and fathers with kids, entire families, groups of friends are welcome to try these delicious wraps created, tested and enjoyed by millions of people around the world. Make your life easier and more enjoyable now! Cooking is fun!
This cooking blog contains fun and easy recipes for busy people. Cooking Romania by Vivi mainly addresses mainly businesspersons with a sense of cooking. I don’t have a lot of time to cook (although I would love to LIVE in the kitchen), so I thought I should share some tips and tricks that have made my life easy and my culinary talents quite popular. Appetizers are probably by strong suit, so check out this section!
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Granny had a way of making every dish feel special, but nothing could match the joy of making her famous carp fish roe spread. Granny trusted me with one of the most important tasks: mixing the carp fish roe. Using “lingura de lemn a familiei” – the oldest wooden spoon you have ever seen in your life passed down from her mother’s mother – I would mix by hand until my arm ached.
Cooking with Granny Victoria always meant embracing flavors, especially garlic. She never skimped on it, and I’ve carried that love into my own kitchen. Her recipes, passed down from her mother and her Aunt Tușa, were more than meals – they were traditions that connected generations.
Cooking with Granny Victoria was always a magical experience, but nothing compared to the joy of making Romanian Eggplant Appetizer (Zacuscă Țărănească) together. The kitchen would fill with the aroma of roasted peppers and eggplants as we worked side by side. My favorite part was the chopping – peppers, onions, and eggplants, all laid out on the table.
Romanian deviled/stuffed eggs, or ouă umplute, are a cherished appetizer often featured at festive tables. While the base concept came from European culinary traditions, Romanians added their own flair, incorporating local ingredients like pickled vegetables, mustard, mayo, smoked or creamy cheese, dill and parsley.
My Granny cooked without counting calories, used plenty of fat of all kinds and deep fried almost every piece of meat. Her cooking was greasy, yes, but to me it was the most wonderful food on the planet and I still miss her sarmale (rolled cabbage), ardei umpluti (stuffed peppers), fish roe (salata de icre) and friptura (steak) and eggplant dip (salata de vinete).
First, you should know that eggplant is a keto/low carb food. So cooking eggplant with olive oil, butter, cheese, tomato, etc is keto friendly and delicious at the same time.
With their filling, creamy texture, mushrooms are one of the keto friendliest vegetables. Not only are they low in carbs, calories and fat, but also rich in potassium, magnesium and zinc.
The famous Low Carb Romanian Roasted Peppers (Ardei copti) now available on Cooking Romania by Vivi! Thanks to Adara, the full recipe with video is now online for you to try and decide for yourself if we Romanians are unreasonably mad about our Roasted Peppers (Ardei copti) or for the right reason.
There are a few food smells that you never forget if you live in Romania: the smell of sarmale (rolled cabbage), vinete coapte (roasted eggplant), cozonac (sweet bread – on Christmas and Easter), muraturi (pickles – in fact, the pungent smell of boiled vinegar and spices in this case).