Category: meat

Food for your stomach

There are pretentious expressions, like this food is for your heart, or for your senses or such, sometime the food is just for your stomach

food for your stomach


Meaty meal

Basic, simple, meaty food. You know, the kind that makes your stomach happy.

meaty meal


The roasting of Mr. Pig

This year I didn’t manage to attend Ignat traditions but I’, publishing a few old but not published before pictures. They deserved publishing from the first time, but due to their violence I was a bit skeptical.

roasting of mr. pig

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Handy hands

Handy hands: they make the world move.

handy hands

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Hard work

A man is hard at work so the others will enjoy the flavor.

hard work

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Yin and Yang

Supposedly, is all about balance, a little of this and a little of that and you will reach equilibrium.

yin and yang

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Simply meat

This is simply meat. Juicy, tasty, fine cooked meat. What else to add?

simply meat

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Crave

Anyone craving for some tasty meats?

crave

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Pork and saukeraut

After in previous posts I may have engrossed some with explicit pictures from traditional pig slaughtering>, is probably the time to show some pleasant-looking pork based food. From Caru’ cu bere in Bucharest (the same place I enjoyed papanași a while ago), here’s what they call, in the English language menu “Romanian pork shank served with pan fried sauerkraut, polenta, horseradish and chili pepper” (ro: ciolan de porc cu varză călită, mămăligă, hrean și ardei iute). This is a serving for two, the dish is large enough.

pork and saukerat

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Aint’ no jamon

Friends who visited Spain keep telling me about jamón, the local speciality. I wasn’t there yet, can’t tell if it is up to its reputation, I can only show you some regular Romanian smoked ham. Not bad.

jamon

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Pastrami

Take a big loaf of mutton pastrami, cut in into pieces. Optionally, at the same time fill some glasses with must (or wine)

pastrami

Grill the pastrami. Optionally cut the grilled pieces into smaller, bite-sized pieces.

pastrami

In parallel, prepare a bowl of mamaliga.

pastrami

Eat the pastrami with mamaliga. You will want the must too.

pastrami

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Sarmale in the pumpkin

This is a less known way to cook sarmale: get a pumpkin and take out the seeds. Fill the interior with uncooked sarmale and whatever else is needed: tomatoes, peppers, smoked bacon, herbs.

sarmale

Put in in the oven and let it cook.

sarmale

Take it out when done.

sarmale

Serve the sarmale together with a bit of cooked pumpkin pulp. Enjoy.

sarmale

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Saramura: making of

Saramură is a traditional Romanian dish, made most of the time from fish. You start by grilling the fish (mullet in this case)

saramura

Then put the meat in a salty sauce (brine) with garlic, hot peppers and vegetables. Served with mămăligă.

saramura

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Fishmongers

That day it was a holiday and the tradition it was to eat fish (on top of that, fish is a Bengali speciality), so the streets of the Ukhra village were full with fish vendors. They were happy so see me, a white man, something unusual there and very eager to get photographed.

fishmongers
fishmongers
fishmongers
fishmongers

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Cîrnați de Pleșcoi

Shooting at the volcanoes is nice and exciting, but it won’t keep the hunger away. Travelling trough beautiful landscapes is also nice and exciting, but it also won’t keep the hunger away. You need real food for that. And as the volcanoes are located in the Buzău county, what is more appropriate than Pleșcoi sausages (cîrnați de Pleșcoi)? And plenty of them, eat until you can’t eat more and then eat some more 😀

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