
Eggplant rolls with ricotta, parmesan, and walnuts
Eggplant is probably one of my favorite vegetables, and I try to eat it as often as possible.I made a stuffed eggplant dish, where eggplant slices are roasted in a ribbed pan with olive oil and then rolled into rolls filled with a ricotta-parmesan mixture. Preparation time: 1 hourLevel: EasyServes: two to four Ingredients:Two large […]

Roman-style artichokes (Carciofi alla Romana)
A classic dish from the Roman region, it is eaten in Italy, especially in the spring. It tastes so authentically Italian and delicious that it simply has to be made.It takes a bit of effort to clean fresh artichokes, but there is nothing complicated here and the entire dish preparation takes about fifteen minutes. Preparation […]

Charcoal Chocolate Tartelet
2025a The Delicious Tartu dessert served at Café Crepp comes with a story about how it came to be. The goal was to make a black tartelet, without using food coloring or other harmful chemical dyes. Charcoal seemed neutral enough to use. As a result, the tart turned out to be a bit black, but […]

Glazed butternut squash steak with ratatouille and kale chips
At the Maitsva Tartu Food Festival, a vegetarian main course is strictly recommended. I chose roasted pumpkin for this, for which Joosep prepared a wonderful coffee-BBQ glaze.The six components of the dish were the same as the duck fillet main course.In recent years, I have started making fried pumpkin in the fall, either with cheese […]

Duck fillet with ratatouille and kale chips
During the 2025 food festival, a total of over 27,000 special menus were ordered from the 22 participating restaurants. These statistics were published in Tartu Postimees. This number is more than ¼ of the population of the city of Tartu. The winner of Tasty Tartu was the restaurant TOKO. Excellent result! Congratulations to the people […]