To celebrate our 1 month, 1 week, and 1 day mark until we leave for Bulgaria (which was actually Friday) we decided to have a grand Bulgarian feast. We put off our little party until Sunday because Tony's family wanted to participate...don't ask me why! haha.
We made Pile (pronounced Pee-lay) c Kartofi (Chicken with Potatoes), except we didn't actually cook the potatoes in with the chicken. Instead, we made another favorite of ours--french fries and feta cheese. We also made Shopska Salata, a salad made with cucumbers, tomatoes, feta cheese, oil, and vinegar, and had some nice crusty bread. Oh, and we couldn't forget the Rakia! Which is basically Bulgarian Brandy (non-alcoholic [grape juice] of course). I think my favorite part of the dinner, just because of the reaction from Tony's family, was the fact that there were no ice cubes in the water. They don't put ice cubes in their drinks in Bulgaria (or in most of Europe for that matter), and we were being as authentic as we could here in the States for our little celebration dinner. It was really funny how put out they were by not having ice cubes in their already fairly cold water. :P
Here are some pictures from our dinner, it turned out really good and I had a lot of fun with it. :)
We had to start our dinner out the right way...with a toast to health!
See the little cups of Rakia? And the water, bez ice cubes
On the right is our Shopska Salata
Mmmm...I make some decent Pile. Thanks for the recipe, Krassy! 
looks interesting? NOT
ReplyDeleteDon't bring that to Indiana where we are going to have southern fried chicken, homefried potatoes and lemonade with lots of ice. Pile that!!!
The time i spent in England and Norway was brutal. Bad, Bland food like you just described and no ice. How barbaric! imagine mom with no ice? lol
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