The food I eat (Bulgarian food)

Folks, I'm just grabbing my delectable lunch. Can you recognize the food?

Photos, I just took them:
(Definitely the most appetizing food on Earth. Homemade too.)

 

It's vine leaf with rice inside ? I ate that one time in a lebenase restaurant. It's delicious.

 

Vine leaf yeah. I also make them with cabbage leaf sometimes. Inside it's rice and minced meat (beef + pork mix). Lemon + Bulgarian milk is fine on top. Problem is I'm out of Bulgarian milk (you call it yogurt, we call it just milk, or kiselo mlyako) and I'm too lazy to go to the store to get some. So I'll be just eating it raw.

 

No Kasha?
Buckwheat groats.


In American, Kasha. The only kasha.

Although I understand ferighners call several things, kasha.



Moi
Kasha lover
if fried with an egg until the egg is absorbed totally,
then cooked like rice with some broth in the water
Great with red meats or roast chicken and juices used as gravy.

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No, not my thing. I ate that when I was lifting a lot of weights. When I was cleaning and cutting. It's a diet food. Now, nah. No kashas for me.

 

Maybe too Slavic or Ashkenazi for your more, Greek, standard Middle East foods.
How about Falafel?


Instead of a starchy vegetable such as potato, kasha is great on the dinner plate.
Left over good on its' own.
Diet food. Wow. Well it is high in protein and low in carbohydrates for a grain.
Too low in carbohydrate for dough made of it to rise, or work as bread dough.

 

Leaves from a tree?

 

Sarma, dolma. It has many names. One of the true wonders of, what I call, Balkan-Turkish cuisine (although you probably oppose that categorisation since you hate Turks lol). The ones made out of squash are my favourites.

 

I've been a few times in Turkey. I like it there. I don't understand the mosques singing in 05:00 AM which I find highly unnecessary (it's loud and it wakes you up, that Arab chant), but Turks are pretty welcoming, good gentlemen and know how to sell you anything with giving you a great deal of attention. Like Italians.

Hygiene there is not much. And what I also dislike is no women. You can't see girls or women in bars, cafes, no waitresses, or in shops are only old men. Pretty much men with moustaches everywhere (Istanbul).

Turkey is cool, if we strip down the negatives.

 

I recognized it in a micro second as Lebanese and Mediterranean foods are among my faves.

 

LOL!

Precisely what people ask me when they see me eating my delicious seaweed:











How I LOVE my seaweed!

 

Isn't SUSHI sea leaves too? Algae leaves. But we all eat that.

And the thing in the plate is Bulgarian. It's not Turk or Lebanese. Stop with the nonsense. You sound just like Russians sometimes, always saying that they have a bigger army, detonated the most powerful bomb, and their alphabet and language is Russian made by Russians.

 

Sorry - did not mean to say it was Turkish or Lebanese. But it is a fact that East European foods were greatly influenced by Lebanese cuisine. Indeed, much of Western cooking originated there.

Cooking is my hobby and I have long studied and experimented with all sorts of cooking from that part of the world.

 

Cooking is a hobby I want to have. I love it. However, I cook mostly basic items such as pastas, meat on the grill (basic steak and chicken), I can smoke a pork butt...and other basic cooking items.

What book would you recommend for someone who is branching out in cooking?

 

Or it was Lebanese food that was influenced by BG food. Same thing with Airyan. It’s a Bulgarian yoghurt that conquered the world. Sour milk is developed by Bulgarian scientists and was only found where Thracians lived—in Bulgaria. History. 3rd grade you’re welcome.

It was Bulgarians, in Bulgaria, that invented the first Aerial bomb, but you won’t see anyone talking about it or giving credit to us. Now every army is using aerial bombs, JDAMs and such, but nobody speaks about the true origin. The first invention is so harder than the follow-up modifications. Everyone knows that. That’s why everyone praises DuPont, Tesla and Edison so much. They were the first. Others just built on it.

They want us weak, and the world to think we’re morons, not that it’s not true, but we’re not all morons, apparently. I’m here, writing, so it’s obvious Bulgarians know how to use the Internet, something online Trolls twist and state otherwise. Nice.

For historians and WWI fans:

In 1912, during the First Balkan War, Bulgarian Air Force pilot Christo Toprakchiev suggested the use of aircraft to drop “bombs” (called grenades in the Bulgarian army at this time) on Turkish positions. Captain Simeon Petrov developed the idea and created several prototypes by adapting different types of grenades and increasing their payload.

On 16 October 1912, observer Prodan Tarakchiev dropped two of those bombs on the Turkish railway station of Karağaç (near the besieged Edirne) from an Albatros F.2 aircraft piloted by Radul Milkov, for the first time in this campaign.

Source: Wikipedia


Captain Simon Petrov in a Bleriot XI 1912


Albatros F.2 in Bulgaria, Chernogorovo, Pazardzhik Province

Also the world’s first airbag, meant to ensure the safety of pilots and automobile drivers alike, was designed by Assen Jordanoff in (1957). But you won’t see people giving him credit.

It’s parasitic behaviour to only acknowledge Western inventions. People should stop doing that.

Next time an airbag saves your life and your 1-year old little toddler doesn’t die because of an airbag and your wife don’t crack her skull or don’t exit the vehicle through the windshield—thank Uncle Assen from Sofia, Bulgaria.





And by “you”—I’m referring all people, not just specifically you.

 

So what? In America, we invented the Missionary Position. You're welcome.

 

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That’s why I respect Americka. The missionary is good for missions. Nice.

 

I'm not much into military history so I'll take your word for it. But as for food, I generally know what I'm talking about. It is true that Thracian history goes back to before the common era and exerted much influence over Hellenics. But Lebanese culture which begins with Phoenicians (referred to as Canaan in the Bible) pre-dates it though historical accounts may differ on the exact origin of each. It is acknowledged that Phoenician culture was more far ranging, going all the way to the Straights of Gibraltar and through much of Africa.

In my studies on this subject, I have never come across any historical evidence that Thracians exerted influence over Lebanese culture/cuisine or whatever. But if you have any such info, please feel free to send me a link.

 

A few years ago I read an article on the subject and it was agreed that The Joy of Cooking is acknowledged as one of the best for new cooks. However, I feel there is a better way:

✓ go to youtube and look at videos which give you step-by-step instructions on how to cook
✓ you will be able to stop each video just to get every phase of the instructions clearly
✓ read commentaries as many folks make suggestions which simplify menus



A book like Joy only gives you words. Videos give you words and actions suited to the words. Unlike TV shows you can stop them and re-wind for clarification when needed. This makes it much easier to learn cooking.

And by the way, I have often commented on YT cooking channels. Many professional cooks have commended me for my suggestions.

Enjoy!

 

Excellent points you make. There are an infinite number of videos and tutorials

Good thing I took leave for the rest of this week lol

 

Get creative.
Take a meat you know how to cook, add some pasta and make a sauce. Do the same with sandwiches and other meals...soon it gets wicked fun and you are an impressive cook.

 

I'm trying the italian meatball gravy (gravy=pasta sauce. my parents always called it gravy). I'm going to cook them in the gravy for 5 hours on low. I'm combining two recipes i found on youtube lol

 

Kick it up to WOW with unique or sharp cheeses...Asiago is damn good. Fresh Basil garnish also makes you a star in this meal.

 

In the U.S., we think of that as Greek food--dolmathes