id you know that poppy seeds, those little black dots that like to hide between your teeth, are packed with minerals? Apparently they are a great source of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium!

n Croatia nut roll is a very popular dessert, especially around Christmas time. Every self-respecting lady of the house is making her own nut rolls, probably using ‘secret’ grandmother’s recipe and proudly offering a slice of her homemade treat.

undt cake is a cake baked (surprise, surprise!) in a bundt pan, which is a round, ring-shaped fluted pan, also called gugelhupf [gügəlˌhu̇(p)f] pan. What the fudge is gugelhupf?! Is somebody choking me, or do I need a Heimlich?!

oppy seeds are dried, kidney-shaped seeds of the annual plant Papaver somniferum (En. sleep-bringing poppy). The plant is used in production of opium, and just in case you ask yourselves – yes, you can fail a drug test after eating poppy seeds, for real!]]>