Mlinci
Today I had a special historical Croatian dish for lunch–Mlinci. I last had Mlinci on my first trip to Croatia in December 1998. While hiking, across Sljeme ontop Medvednica Mountain, we stopped at a lodge restaurant for some Mlinci, red cabbage salad, and mulled wine. It was an excellent lunch.
This time a friend of ours cooked it for us and it was everything I remembered it to be. Mlinci is a kind of pasta but it’s somewhat complicated to make. It requires baking thin sheets of flour/water/salt mix in the oven, then cooling, then drenching in hot water, then cooking in the juices of whatever meat will accompany it. Today it was chicken. Mmmm.
I’m not that fond of hanging out in the kitchen, so I don’t cook much. But there are some dishes that I really enjoy and I must learn to cook them (Mlinci, Russian Stroganoff, etc.)