It was Croatian Week at Delegates Dining at the UN so we got our first chance to try Croatian cuisine. We tried a bit of everything – Mediterranean salad with smoked ham and oranges, roasted veal, risotto with calamari, Dalamatian beef with gnocchi, marinated chicken with dill and lemon sauce, refried beans, pasta with truffle oil, and a nice horse radish soup topped with fried pumpkin chips. Croatian 
cuisine is an interesting mix of Mediterranean and eastern European. The flavors are all familiar. The dishes could pass for Italian, Spanish or Hungarian (but without the garlic).
We were lucky to be served by Delwar, our favorite waiter at Delegates. We got 2 free glasses of a Croatian red called dingac which was surprisingly good and went very well with most of the dishes. We pigged out on the dessert pastries. Nothing to write home (or blog) about. They did have a pastry that was like our buchi – or is it bicho (see picture to your left)? I can never get it straight.
BTW – Croatians like to take mid-morning snack called “marenda”. Siguro parang merienda natin. Next week is Portugal week at Delegates. Looking forward to vinho verde and bacalhau . . .
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