Food in any of the countries was delicious! While I took a photo of every food I think I ate, there is no way to include them all here! Some meals were washed down with water, juice, soda, local beer or wine and a few times with rakija! Wow… strong one! Also, tea or coffee was offered at the end of meals. 

Meals with meat were chicken, lamb, pork, beef or goat. Seafood choices included mussels, oysters, octopus, and most often sea bass or shrimp. Typically with a potato on the plate too.

Salad was often red peppers, corn, zucchini, greens of some sort, cherry tomatoes, cheese, red onions, cabbage and olives in a bowl served family-style.

Pastas include spaghetti and different shaped pastas. I especially loved our pasta-making class as that was freshly made! Some pasta meals included truffles!

Breads were delicious! With olive oil, we often were dipping our bread!

Unique foods:

Burek: a filo dough with spinach and cheese and often in a spiral shape.

Ekmet dessert

Black risotto was unusual option at times as more often it was regular risotto. No, teeth were not black at the end of the meal from the squid ink which makes it black.

Just when you think you’ve seen risotto, here was delicious beetroot risotto with burrata:

Swiss chard or stinging nettles were often with a meal. So was polenta.

Pizza varied wherever I was; however, I had the absolute best pizza at Roko Pizzeria in Opatija, Croatia. Off course I’m on my way to Italy so I may find better pizza!

Here was another amazing pizza with 4 toppings:

My favorite meal and I wished I had it more than one time was ćevapi.

Desserts were often lava cake, tres leches, strudel or of course, often gelato! But let me taste Italian gelato and decide which is best! I’m off to Italy!