🌊 Croatia & Heritage
Learn with Nonna: 60 Everyday Phrases in Italian and Croatian
Nonna Do speaks English, Italian and Croatian. Here are 60 everyday words and phrases from her kitchen, garden and heart, with easy pronunciation tips.
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Nonna Do’s Blog
25 stories from the kitchen, the orchid windowsill, the garden, the craft table and the island where it all began.
🌊 Croatia & Heritage
Mali Lošinj: The Island of Vitality Where Nonna's Story Begins
Pine forests, healing air, dolphins and an ancient bronze athlete: discover Mali Lošinj and the island of Cres, where Nonna Do was born in the village of Belej.
🏡 Home & Design
Mediterranean Interior Design: Bringing the Adriatic Home
Sea blues, whitewashed walls, terracotta and old wood: Nonna Do's guide to Adriatic-inspired interiors, from color and materials to orchids, shells and light.
💚 Healthy Living
The Power of a Smile: Mindfulness, Faith and a Giving Heart
Nonna Do is always smiling. Here are the simple, everyday practices of gratitude, mindfulness, kindness and quiet reflection behind a giving heart.
🏡 Home & Design
The Nonna Method for an Organized, Joyful Home
A calm, room-by-room approach to home organization from Nonna Do: a working pantry, a tidy linen closet, happy craft supplies and a weekly rhythm that lasts.
💚 Healthy Living
The Mediterranean Secret to Looking and Feeling Younger
Olive oil, sea air, gardens and a full family table: the everyday Mediterranean habits that help Nonna Do and all of us look and feel our best.
🪙 Collecting
Stamps & Coins: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Collecting
Tongs, stock books, coin flips and a good loupe: Nonna Do's gentle guide to starting a stamp or coin collection, from choosing a theme to Croatia's euro coins.
💚 Healthy Living
Staying Active for Life: Tennis, Beach Walks and Gentle Strength
From tennis with the grandkids to shell-hunting beach walks, here is how Nonna's family stays moving, with a simple weekly plan for strength, balance and joy.
🎨 Arts & Crafts
Orchid-Inspired Art: Photographing, Painting and Designing with Blooms
From phone macro shots at golden hour to watercolor studies and pressed-petal cards, here is how Nonna Do turns her orchids into art you can make at home.
🎨 Arts & Crafts
A Tailor's Secrets: Mending, Hemming and Simple Alterations at Home
Nonna Do's tailoring know-how for home: an invisible blind hem, a waist taken in, buttons that never fall off, neat darning, and knowing when to call a pro.
🎨 Arts & Crafts
Beachcombing & Seashell Crafts: Frames, Mirrors and Keepsakes
How Nonna Do turns quiet beach walks into shell frames, mirrors and ornaments: collecting kindly, cleaning gently and gluing it all together so it lasts.
🌿 Gardening
A Bird-Friendly Garden: Welcoming Mourning Doves and Songbirds
A mourning dove chose one of Nonna Do's wicker hanging baskets for her nest. Here's how to welcome doves and songbirds with plants, water and feeders, and how to care for a nest.
🌿 Gardening
Growing a Mediterranean Herb Garden in Pots
Basil for Sunday sauce, sage for gnocchi, rosemary for roast potatoes: how to grow Nonna Do's favorite Mediterranean herbs in pots, inspired by the wild herbs of Lošinj.
🌸 Orchids
How to Make Your Orchids Rebloom Year After Year
Your orchid finished blooming. Now what? Nonna Do's rebloom plan: the cool-night trick, the right light, her feeding calendar, spike care and what to do with a keiki.
🌸 Orchids
Orchid Types 101: Phalaenopsis, Cattleya, Oncidium, Dendrobium & More
Moth orchids, Cattleyas, dancing ladies, spider orchids and cane Dendrobiums: meet the orchids in Nonna Do's collection and learn what each one needs to thrive.
🌸 Orchids
Repotting Orchids Like a Pro, Step by Step
When to repot, what to have ready, and how to handle the roots gently: Nonna Do's step-by-step method for repotting orchids, plus the best potting mix for each type.
🌸 Orchids
Watering Orchids: 7 Myths and the Truth
Ice cubes, weekly schedules, misting instead of watering: Nonna Do clears up seven common orchid watering myths and shows how to read your orchid's roots.
🌸 Orchids
Orchid Care for Beginners: Dorina's 10 Golden Rules
Nonna Do's ten golden rules for keeping orchids happy, from picking a healthy plant at the garden center to watering, feeding and coaxing out the next bloom.
🥖 Baking
Fritule, Kroštule & Holiday Sweets of the Adriatic
Warm fritule with rum and citrus, crisp kroštule, a hazelnut rolat and bright lemon cookies. Here's Nonna Do's holiday baking plan from both sides of the Adriatic.
🥖 Baking
Rustic Olive Bread from Nonna's Oven
A crackling crust, a chewy crumb and salty olives in every bite. Here's how to bake Nonna Do's pane alle olive as long rustic loaves in your own home oven.
🍝 Nonna’s Kitchen
Nonna's Pantry: 25 Essentials for Italian & Croatian Home Cooking
With these 25 staples on your shelves, dinner is always within reach. Here's what lives in Nonna Do's pantry, why each one matters and how to store it well.
🍝 Nonna’s Kitchen
Sunday Sauce and the Power of the Family Table
A pot of red sauce simmering all afternoon, a table set for everyone. Here's Nonna Do's Sunday sauce and why the family dinner around it matters more than ever.
🍝 Nonna’s Kitchen
Croatian Coastal Cooking: Flavors of Lošinj & Cres
Olive oil, wild sage, island lamb and fish from the Adriatic. Explore the island food of Cres and Lošinj that shaped Nonna Do's kitchen, with a simple blitva recipe.
🍝 Nonna’s Kitchen
Pillowy Potato Gnocchi, the Nonna Do Way
Warm potatoes, gentle hands and just enough flour. Learn how Nonna Do makes the soft, pillowy gnocchi our family calls legendary, plus the sauces to serve with them.
🍝 Nonna’s Kitchen
The Secrets Behind Nonna Do's Award-Winning Lasagna
Slow sauce, a silky ricotta layer and the patience to let it rest. Here is the full recipe and every secret behind the lasagna our family asks for first.
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