If you walk through our streets, you will feel the scent of good food that can reverse the mood of the moment and cheer up any sad person!

That scent was very well known to our grandmothers, great grandmothers as well as it is to us today. The link with the past is the most lively and profound through the food. Food determines the life of every individual in the most memorable way.

To keep the tradition alive, 2nd grade pupils of

Elementary school Marjan did their best to collect

the recipes for a small portion of tasty traditional

dishes in order to preserve them for the future.

This school year, pupils are

learning about healthy and varied

diet, so, together with their teacher

they decided to collect recipes for

healthy food and dishes that are

traditionally cooked in this region.

They tried to prepare some dishes

with the help and assistance of

their mothers and grandmothers.

Let's take a look!

Menu

We have agreed on who is going to bring which food, bearing in mind that it should be local and ecologically grown.

Then we determined what we all like the best and decided what to cook.

Warm appetizer: fish soup of hake

- cook: Dario’s grandma Marica

Main dish: baked octopus with potatoes and five kinds of salad, homemade bread

- cooks: Hrvoje’s grandma Vera andGabriel’s grandma Katija

Dessert: hrostuli and fritters

- cooks: Tino’s grandma Vinja and Livia’s grandma Ana

Good preparation is half the work done

Pupils were divided into three groups. The first group washed the vegetables

and prepared the kitchen utensils.

The second group squeezed some local lemons

and oranges to make refreshing drinksThe third group carefully set the tables

The big chefs and the little chefs

Very pleased grandmothers told us that

this was a great start. Lunch is still the

main meal that brings together the whole

family, and is based on local vegetables,

fish and seafood, Mediterranean spices

and olive oil.

Grandmas Vinja and Ana – the dessert

Grandma

Marica –

warm

appetizer

Grandma Vera – the main dish

Octopus as a star of the day

Veronica's dad caught a fresh octopus while diving

in the sea. It is not easy to clean the octopus.

Where are its teeth?

Union is strength.

Hake soup is both delicious and good

for you.

The Fruit is nature's candy

Hrostuli and fritters make for excellent

dessert.

Too many cooks spoil the broth – or do they?

Normally, it takes about an hour to roast the

octopus but our oven malfunctioned and it

only slightly warmed it. Nevertheless, the

grannies improvised and fried the octopus in

a pan so that children wouldn’t go hungry.

The children were taught an important lesson – „if life deals you

lemons, make lemonade..” They ate their lunch and, of course, drunk

their lemonade with pleasure.

Table manners are important.

You are what you eat.

So please don’t eat junk food

After lunch, the pupils set up a play called

Fruit talk

In the end

The children washed the dishes and

cleaned the kitchen.

They have learned to cherish and

preserve for the next generation the

traditional values they inherited from their

grandmothers and grandfathers.

Everyone enjoyed learning without pen

and paper and looks forward to our next

gathering in the kitchen.

And now just a couple of recipes for the dessert.

Enjoy!

Hrostuli

Dough:

50 dKg of flour

Some baking powder

2 egg yolks

1 egg

2 tablespoons of sugar

1 tablespoon of rum

A pinch of salt

2 dl sour cream

1 tablespoon of oil

Decoration:

10 dag of powdered sugar

Preparation:

Stir flour with baking powder. Mix egg yolks, egg, sugar, rum and salt to create foam.

Make a dent in the flour and add sour cream, oil and egg yolk mixture in it.

Knead dough and let it rest for about half an hour in the refrigerator.

Roll it out thin and cut into thin stripes. Fry in hot oil for a short time (2 min).

Fritters from Split

Ingredients:

3-4 eggs

4 tablespoons sugar

lemon zest

some brandy

vanilla sugar

2 grated apples

2 tablespoons of raisins

½ liter of yogurt

1 baking powder

As much of smooth flour as itabsorbs.

When the mixture is ready leave itto rest for 30 min.

Fry in hot oil.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar.