Is autumn, the season for grapes to get ripe. The wides use for the grapes is wine making, but before the fermentation they become must, a wonderful drink full of sweetness and flavor. Best served with grilled pastrami.
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Life may be hard next to a pregnant woman: after a copious lunch a small desert may be craved, but as everything looks so good, you have to chance to end-up with double the quantity (here 4 cakes for 2 people). And since she can’t eat it all, you will have to be the hero and take care of more than half of it. Is more fun when you are an appreciator who can’t pass a good dessert.
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I feel like playing on words today, so will continue on the same line, I guess that is not the pumpkin you are looking for.
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I am quite sure my readers had a different expectation seeing a title like “Hotness”, but surely they are hot and I like trolling sometime 😀
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Is still summer, the time we eat more ice cream, so the question may logically appear: how the ice cream is made? The answer is simple: from milk!
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There is an old saying, “the forest is the Romanian’s brother” (ro: “codru-i frate cu românul”), which I feel like paraphrasing today, “the mic is the Romanian’s brother” (ro: “micu-i frate cu românul”), where mici is a very traditional Romanian food (a kind of sausages) which most of the time is accompanied by beer.
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The seller was shouting “nu daÈ›i banii pe prostii, luaÈ›i cîrnaÈ›i pentru copii” which translated from Romanian to English is something along the lines of “don’t throw your money away of craps, buy sausages for your children”, but with rhyme. I was knowing it with “candies” instead of “sausages”.
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Saramură is a traditional Romanian dish, made most of the time from fish. You start by grilling the fish (mullet in this case)
Then put the meat in a salty sauce (brine) with garlic, hot peppers and vegetables. Served with mămăligă.
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It quickly became the most common fast food around here after its introduction a few years ago, you practically can find shawarma anywhere in the city. When talking about something you have to eat in a hurry and keep you full, we pretty much forgot our mititei and skipped over hamburgers and hot dogs, directly to shawarma.
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Good looking and everything, I won’t eat that until I learn is perfectly safe and edible. supposedly isn’t, so a picture was enough for me.
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Another totally random encounter in Vienna was a beer festival taking place near the city center, a few hundreds of meters away from the St. Stephan cathedral. The setting was not very different from the festivals at home, the same tables and chairs, some different brands of beer and food, a much larger orchestra playing.
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Staying in Vienna, you absolutely to have one dish: Wiener Schnitzel, which is not much different than the schnitzels I remember from home, but apparently larger (the surface is large but the meat is thin) and mine was served with potato salad on the side.
Even the burger had some local touch (and no buns, which is good). The beer here is Czech (Kozel).
And there is plenty of international food, like those brunch plates:
Something is missing from here, the Wiener Strudel, maybe next time…
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This is a very Romanian meal: beans soup with smoked pork (Romanian: fasole cu ciolan) and papanasi (doughnuts with jam and cream). The soup was served in a bread, to attract the tourists (myself included) and there was also a glass of boiled wine, which is not pictured, I drank it long before the soup was brought to the table.
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I am a vocal atheist, but at the same time I know a bit about religious traditions around (you can’t be an atheist without being familiar with the religious dogma) and I enjoy some of the traditional food (does it make me a hypocrite?)
Mucenici or Măcinici is a traditional for for the Christian-Orthodox holiday celebrating the 40 martyrs of Sebaste with takes place on 9 March. Is a dessert of two sorts: in Muntenia (south) is like a soup of “8” shaped little pasta, sweetened and traditionally flavoured with cinnamon and walnuts, in modern times we also add for flavour rum essence and lemon or orange peels. In Moldova (north-west), again some “8” shaped bigger dough pieces, baked in the oven, then dipped in honey syrup and flavored with walnuts (those are also called “Saints”)
This year I only had the southern sort, the soup. The pasta was bought from the store, the rest is home-made. Hopefully for the next year I will have some photos with the other one too.
Another tradition for this holiday is to celebrate all the saints, so if there were 40 martyrs dying… you have to drink 40 glasses of wine, one for each saint. Not bad… but way more than I can handle 🙂
And there is yet another tradition: if your name don’t have a patron saint (your given name is not the same as the name of a saint officially celebrated in the religious calendar), then 9 March is your name day. Another opportunity to celebrate, I guess…
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During my Indian trip all people around were worried about my ability to eat their food, asking me all the time “is it OK for you or too spicy?” and I was keeping telling them “is close to the limit, but I am all right with it”. Well, Mexican pizza with nasty jalapenos on top trained me well, I guess 🙂
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