Fergese is a national Albanian casserole. A hearty dish from southeastern Europe. Traditional casserole of sweet bell peppers,

This Mediterranean recipe for baked Lamb and Rice is the perfect family meal for celebrations, especially Easter and Ramadan.

Trilece is a popular dessert in which a very light sponge cake is soaked in 3 kinds of milk – Evaporated Milk, Condensed Milk and Doubl

A bowl full of Albanian comfort food, this instant pot White Bean Soup (Jani Me Fasule) packs a punch from a very small ingredient list.

This Albanian Soda Bread is an easy recipe that traditionally was served for weddings and celebrations. It’s called Kulaç.

Homemade jams are the best! This blueberry apple jam is perfect over toast for breakfast or filling for desserts.

This Mediterranean Zucchini & Greek Yogurt Chilled Soup is the perfect light meal for hot summer nights!! Plus that it is low carb too!!

Homemade bread made the Albanian way. I learned to make bread from my mom. It’s an easy recipe, but you have to let the dough rise twice!

Delicious orange, walnuts cake baked in a bundt baking dish. My kids loved helping me make this cake. It’s simple, not too sweet and perfect

This Mediterranean Chicken Rice bake is an old fashioned recipe focusing on few ingredients. This is a favorite family style meal!

This Farro pudding with dried figs, walnuts, cloves and cinnamon is the Albanian version for Hashure, a dessert also known as Noah’s Pudding

This Mediterranean Lentils soup is vegan and non-spicy. Soup is inspired by Albanian recipe for thjerreza. Healthy winter soup!!!

This instant pot meat and potatoes stew is cooked exactly how my grandparents used to cook it back in Albania (gjelle me mish e patate)

This Albanian version of the famous Russian Salad is called Sallate Ruse. It is a staple side dish on Albanian dinner tables for New Year’s.

This rosemary cornbread is perfect toasted and served with feta and olives, but it’s also perfect to make stuffing with.

This baked fettuccine casserole with feta cheese is called pastiço / pastiçe in my native country of Albania. It’s the ultimate comfort food

This Mediterranean Chicken Lemon Rice Soup is based on how this recipe is cooked in Albania. Soup is creamy and perfect for cold days!

This hearty and delicious green beans stew is based on an Albanian recipe for mashurka. Stew can be made with beef or lamb.

Albanian stuffed peppers bake is made with seasonal, summer peppers, rice, ground beef or minced meat, parsley, tomatoes, onions etc.

This simple recipe for red plum jam is a small batch with no pectin. This is inspired from my mom’s recipe, Albanian Recel Kumbulle.

Crispy baked Albanian Spinach Rolls with phyllo dough, feta and cottage cheese, the perfect party appetizer or snack. 

Tulumba- Turkish & Albanian style donuts in syrup