Green seasoning is my go to "secret ingredient" when I feel like eating something Caribbean. It is a blend of herbs and vegetables that gives your meal this amazing feeling of vacation (or at least it does so for me) :-)
Green seasoning can be used as a marinade for both sea food and meats, or added by spoons as seasoning to stews, soups, rice dishes, etc. 
As many things in the Caribbean recipes for Green Seasoning have this famous "make do" element in them - you make your Green Seasoning with the ingredients that are available.
Here is our version of this green goodness. 

Everyone's mom makes chicken and rice in one form or the other. This dish is one of those "around the globe" things, and yet there are probably so many different variations as there is moms in the world.  This one is our Caribbean inspired chicken and rice. Feel free to tweak it however your own inspiration leads you. :-) 

Žgvacet is a traditional Istrian (peninsula in the north western part of Croatia) goulash-like slow cooked dish. Traditionally it was mostly made from hen (old chicken) meet even though other meat options are just as tasty. Typical for Žgvacet is that you need to brown the meat first, than you add the onions and afterwards use a lot of wine to cook it in. Since this is an old traditional dish there are as many original recipes as there are grandmothers in Istria since every one of them adds that little extra something that makes her Žgvacet the best.

Time needed: about 3,5 hours
Preparation: about 30 minutes
​Cooking: about 3 hours

Now this is a simple one! Juicy cuts of chicken meat in a soft and spongy dough/crust. The name is weird (in its original and translated into any language) but it does describe the final product to the point. Once pulled out of the oven you will have knobs of chicken meat peaking out of your delicious pie. 

Time needed: about 1 hour
Preparation and assembly: about 15 minutes
​Cooking: about 40 minutes

These are just awesome southern american buttermilk biscuits! Quick and simple recipe for perfect soft and flaky results. I've seen dozens of recipes for buttermilk biscuits and they all had their pros and cons. Most of the time they seamed a bit to much work. Recently I accidentally came across a recipe on Facebook where one southern lady made these. She eyeballed all the ingredients but it seamed to work perfectly. So, after couple of days of testing and measuring we came up with our own recipe. Don't ask me how many biscuits I ate in the last five days! :-D 

Time needed: about 20 minutes
Dough preparation: about 5 minutes
Baking time about 15 minutes

We already had a recipe for "Burek" - the savory meat pie made with delicious phyllo pastry. Now it's time to write down a recipe for his most famous vegetarian (ovo-vegetarian) competition on the market of Bosnian pies - Pita Zeljanica. Delicious layers of thin phyllo pastry filled with...

​Time needed: about 2 hours
Dough preparation and resting: about 1 hour
Baking time about 40 minutes

This tasty breakfast item with a memorable name "Slut" we brought with us from the Grand Central Market in Downtown LA.
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Eggslut is a very busy place on the Market that offers some great breakfast/lunch/snack options. If you find yourself there don't get scared of the long line of people waiting. Grab couple of minutes of patience and just queue up for some tasty treats!

Time needed: about 1 hour
Preparation and assembly: about 30 minutes
Final cooking: about 15 minutes