Ok, lets see what you have, I love my food and enjoy the taste of Bulgarian food very much, so lets see what you lot can put here.

I hope it will be interesting. I'd love to get some recipies to try out. Cooking is one of my pleasures living here.

Best wishes to all of you

I'm with you ... I love cooking (one of my great passions in life) and especially love seeing what we can produce with Bulgarian ingredients.

Yesterday was a batch of home-made Cornish Pasties! Two eaten immediately, 6 more in the freezer and worked out at less than one lev each :)

Ok Guy's sounds good to me I will stick with the Indian side of food? as that is what I do best [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Nice Idea, I think there will be lods that others can offer, I don't cook to much but I will be trying some of them :lol: :lol:

what a great idea this is, I don't think I have seen anything like this on the other forums

If I put on a few stone I know who to blame :lol: :lol:

Now is the time of year when vegetables like leeks. peppers, and cauliflower are in season, at their best in quality and price. Spend an hour in the market buying the best produce, an hour preping and blanching ready for the freezer and all winter eating veg that you know is fresh, cleaned properly and available to you out of season.

Bill

billfromvt wrote:

Now is the time of year when vegetables like leeks. peppers, and cauliflower are in season, at their best in quality and price. Spend an hour in the market buying the best produce, an hour preping and blanching ready for the freezer and all winter eating veg that you know is fresh, cleaned properly and available to you out of season.

Bill

Hi billfromvt can you tell me is this typical of life in Bulgaria, I only ask as I am very interested in what you sayn as I am a Vegetarian [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

There are 2 schools for preserving veg. There is the old peoples way which involves lots of jars and and hot water with all kinds of fruit and veg, quite nice but just does not hold the colour very well and the taste is "
an aquired"
taste. Freezing is the norm for most of the younger generation and of course most of the western europeans who live here. Veg is just as it was 30 years ago in the UK, mainly available and plentifull when in season. There are some supermarkets which improt out of season veg but it is not always at it's best.

Hope this helps

Bill

been doing the same

when in season, like now the cauliflower, buying from the markets cheaper, blanching and freezing in portions so will now have available all year and not have to pay the higher prices in the supermarket for imported

hopefully will have garden completed for next season and grow our own!! [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Well I shall have to have a think - I usually just open jars and add to the meat Oh I tell you what I actually made whilst in BG. I made a lovely looking apple pie with apples from the garden and I had a little shamrock on top and all that. Only problem was I forgot to put in the baking powder and it was as flat as a pancake It was discusting The neigbours dog love it. I know this because he used to growl at me all the time, now he wags his tail - so I will make him another on next year

Oddy

Never used Baking powder in pastry, if it was flat it was probably overworked. Try these two:-

Sweet paste

400 Grammes Flour
200 Grammes Margarine or butter
50 Grammes Icing sugar
200 grammes approx Water to bind

Rub margarine/butter and flour together to form fine breadcrumbs.
Add icing sugar and lightly mix.
Add water slowly to form a dough that should be the texture of putty, if it crumbles when you squeeze it between your fingers it is too dry, add a little more water.
Wrap in cling film and store in the fridge for an hour before use.

Sweet paste 2

400 Grammes Flour
200 Grammes Margarine or butter
100 Grammes castor sugar
2 eggs
Water as required

Rub margarine/butter and flour together to form fine breadcrumbs.
Mix sugar and eggs together until sugar is dissolved, make a well in the center of pastry mix, mix ingredients together to form a dough add water if required so that the dough is the texture of putty, if it crumbles when you squeeze it between your fingers it is too dry, add a little more water.
Wrap in cling film and store in the fridge for an hour before use.

This makes a very light almost shortbread type of pastry I add almond or vanilla flavourings and make biscuits with this pastry

Bill

crystals wrote:

been doing the same

when in season, like now the cauliflower, buying from the markets cheaper, blanching and freezing in portions so will now have available all year and not have to pay the higher prices in the supermarket for imported

hopefully will have garden completed for next season and grow our own!! [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Hi crystals did you do your planting and what was the result? I know I should be asking this in another forum "
How does your garden grow"
but I found this here so sorry mod.