Nazdrave! The BulgarianWine.com Blog

October 25, 2021

5-Minute Wine Tasting with Molly

Join Molly at the kitchen table for a quick taste of Non-vintage Targovishte Traminer, 2019 VINI Pinot Noir, and 2015 Monogram Mavrud & Rubin

November 23, 2020

Recipe

Baklava

Nothing says holidays like home-made baklava. Practice, patience, and keeping the papery sheets from drying out are the secrets to working with phyllo.

November 23, 2020

Traditional bulgarian cold summer soup tarator with yogurt, dill, cucumber and walnuts in ceramic bowl on wooden table

Recipe

If you are Bulgarian, you do not need a recipe for tarator, the ubiquitous summer cucumber soup. If you’ve been to Bulgaria in the summertime, you have most certainly eaten tarator and probably have figured out the recipe on your own. It never hurts to start with a good plan, though—so we are pleased to share our recipe for tarator.

June 29, 2020

Photograph of a salad plate with fresh tomatoes, fresh sourdough bread, and roasted potatoes with garlicky yogurt and dill sauce

Nikolay Penev

Recipe

Cuisine you can eat with your eyes

There is a truly amazing website full of recipes in English and Bulgarian: Nikolay’s Kitchen. In addition to being a chef, author and food stylist Penev is also an extremely talented photographer. His Instagram is sure to make you feel simultaneously hungry and satisfied.

June 12, 2020