What I EAT With My BABA in the BALKANS (BULGARIA) Part III 🧄 What EASTERN EUROPEAN Grandma’s Cook
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- So you want to know what we eat in the Balkans? I’m back with Baba Nina (my Grandma) in Sofia, Bulgaria (Southern Balkans) and the feast has begun!
Life with Baba is centered around FOOD (very very delicious food 😋) and I wanted to share more of what she cooks with you!
Today she will be cooking a veryyyy special meal (that I have never actually tried before, myself), using ingredients we brought to her from the farm… and beyond! All I can say is 🤤
We all know there is nothing better than a home cooked meal from Grandma 👵🏻❤️🌶️🧅🥕🥬🥩🥘
ABOUT ME:
My name is Laurie and I swapped city life (Manhattan, New York) for a simple life in a semi-abandoned village (Село) in the Balkan Mountains (Eastern Europe).
I literally woke up one morning and realized NYC wasn’t for me. I booked a ticket (the same day!), packed a little suitcase, and moved to my beloved teeny-tiny Bulgarian farm… lost in time. And when I say lost in time I mean LOST-IN-TIME. No time-crunching jobs, no watching the clock, hardly any internet service at all, really. Imagine a village from the Middle Ages… that’s pretty much what you get here. And I’m loving every second of it!
I went from living in a city of 8 million to living on an old, historic farm… population: under 40. From skyscrapers to crumbling abandoned houses. From fast food takeout to barrel grill cooking. The advantages of village life are endless…
Update: My boyfriend and I have saved up and begun renovating our abandoned ancestral homestead (farmhouse). It hasn’t been easy but definitely interesting and extremely rewarding. There is nothing better than farming, harvesting and foraging for our own food… and keeping tradition alive. 🌱
ЗА МЕН:
Здравейте!
Аз съм Лори, на която всички се чудят как замени градския живот (Манхатън, Ню Йорк) със спокоен живот в малко полуизоставено село в България.
Събудих се една сутрин и осъзнах, че Ню Йорк не е за мен. Купих си билет (същият ден!), стегнах си малкото куфарче, и се завърнах в България… в бащиното ми селце, там, където животът е спрял, и там, където разбираш кои неща наистина имат смисъл! Забравих какво е стрес, напрежение и нареждане на деня спрямо часовника! Часовник, какво е това? За да ползваш телефона си, отиваш до специално място, където има обхват, и така говориш! Чувстваш се така, сякаш живееш в годините от Възрожденския ни период! Обожавам и ценя всеки миг, прекаран тук!
Всички се чудят не е ли трудно да живееш в село с по-малко от 40 души, отчитайки, че идвам от град с 8 милиона жители! От небостъргачи до рушащи се изоставени къщи…От доставки на бързи храни до готвене на жар и весели чевермета! Предимствата да живееш на село са безкрайни... На първо място трябва да осъзнаеш какво дава то на душата ти, защото тя е най-важна! След това да забравиш за клишето, че няма реализация!
В момента: Моят приятел и аз обновихме изоставената къща на предците ни! Пригодихме я така, че да не ни липсва каквото и да е удобство! Не беше лесно, но определено интересно и изключително възнаграждаващо. Няма нищо по-добро от земеделието, отглеждането и търсенето на собствена храна... и поддържането на традицията жива. 🌱
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You should have 1 million subscribers by now, not 1k! You will get there, I am sure! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS ❤
Awww thank you so much! I love seeing people enjoy my videos 🥰. 1 million or 1,000 I am happy 🥰🥰🥰
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 great mindset gf❤
Beautiful photos beautiful Bulgarian nature beautiful food ❤
Thank you so much ❤️. Bulgaria is heaven on earth… and the food… 😋🤤
I ♥ muddy tasting fish, Laurie! 😅 it looked really "meaty"
The Banitsa looks like soul food 😍
The rocks in the rock river were rounded by water flow and given the size of them ...a hugely powerful flow ...which is no longer there. I wonder what happened. I'll have a Google 🤔
Thanks for sharing 😊
Isn’t muddy fish just delicious!? 🤤It doesn’t get enough love 😃. Sharan is veryyy meaty and when it has a good layer of fat around the belly is out-of-this-world delicious!
Imagine the flow of that river… nature is AMAZING 🌍🍃
Fascinating ❤️
I’m so glad to hear that! 😃❤️
We loved the video again ,thank you.
My mouth is watering from the banitza 😋😋😋
Stil 4 weeks to go and then we will be back in Bulgaria.
One of the First thing we eat must be banitza😋it's delicious.
These rocks look amazing.
The nature is gorgeous there.
Have a blessed week again.❤
Ooooo only 4 weeks left!! How exciting!! All the banitza in the world is waiting for you when you come! Just make sure it’s nice and hot and buttery 🧈🤤.
Thank you so much as always for watching and for the beautiful words! And… welcome again to Bulgaria!! ❤️
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 We are here now and we totaly love our old farm house🥰We love this weather and we Love this evening with Rakia😅much blessings sweetheart😘
👍 the stone river is extraordinary. So much extraordinary nature in Bulgaria.
Isn’t it amazing!? I was mind blown when I saw it for the first time. Nature is amazing 🍃
Love your channel! Another great program! We used to catch carp around the Great Lakes when I was growing up, and it was always very good. Not muddy. We also have carp every year now for Passover, made into Gefilte Fish (fish dumplings), which are also very good. Bulgaria is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us. The "Stone River" was amazing. Peace be with you friend. 💖🌻🥀🌲🌳🐟
Oh wow! I didn’t know people eat carp in the US. I just never saw it in supermarkets in NYC . So good to hear you have such beautiful memories catching carp in The Great Lakes of all places! I have never been but heard they are incredible.
Gefilte Fish! Sounds delicious!!! I love trying new foods and that sounds particularly delicious 😋.
As always, thank you so much for watching and commenting. I always learn so much from you! Best wishes to you and your family 😊🌺💖🐣🍃🐰
БАБА НИНА! I get the feeling she's a force of nature! ❤
Ooooooo SHE IS! 💪🏼😃❤️
Awesome! What a great life you’ve made for yourself and what a blessing to have Baba there with you!
Having my Babas here is a true blessing ❤️. I cherish every second with them 🥰
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 you’re are great young woman! I’m sure they feel the same about having you back at home! Leka nosh, leka.
Aww thank you so much! You are amazing as well! I always look forward to your comments 😊. Лека нощ! 🌙
YUUUM, YUM!
😋🤤😋🤤
What a great idea for a channel I don't think we have any other Bulgarian ones like this 😊
Thank you so much!!! It makes me truly happy to hear that you are enjoying! 😊🇧🇬
Congratulations you are almost about to reach 1000 subscribers 😊 🎉❤
OMG I JUST REACHED THEM AND IM SO EXCITED !! 🥳🥳 Thank you for noticing!! I might have a drink now to celebrate 🎊😃
Love love baba banitsa....we take a shortcut by using puff pastry, but it's not the same as filo in layers.
Oooooo waking up to baba’s banitsa is THE BEST! Especially when it’s still warm and buttery 🧈 🤤
Ahh yes the carp , which as you said is a bottom feeder ,at least here it’s considered a habitat destroyer , they uproot vegetation and eventually a clear body of water can turn muddy . But I do see it is a liked fish I. Europe . Beautiful dry river bed ! Some very large boulders for sure . In the States they have the Asian carp which frankly looks odd as its eyes are on the lower part of its head ? They jump out of the water at the slightest noise and have hurt many a fisherman when hit in the head .. 20 plus pounds will do that 😮 . Love how serene it is there , none of the hustle and bustle of so many areas
Oh wow! I didn’t know carp is considered a habitat destroyer! I also have never seen an Asian Carp before… what a strange looking fish wow 😯. So scary that it actually jumps out of the water and harms fishermen. I wonder if the same is true for the carp we eat here in Bulgaria. I will ask uncle Google 😃. You learn new things every day! Thanks for all the info!!
Yes the sharan tastes very good
LOVE IT!! 😋
Baba so cute😊
Thank you so much!! She is my best friend ❤️🥰❤️🥰
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 I can relate gf
Love it!
Чудна баничка, обаче отварянето на буркана ме уплаши с този нож 🤣С лъжица по-лесно.
Хахаха 😂 И мен ме плаши!
I hope more bulgarians like you,will come back,to start saving our beautyfull land named Bulgaria,before our geedy rullers destroy the life here,for money(i hate greed so much).Healt and happynes
I hope so too! We have such a beautiful country and you are 100% right that a few people are ruining the quality of life for everyone else… it’s so sad to see the way retired people live in our country. Hopefully more and more Bulgarians move back and help rebuild our beautiful country. 🇧🇬❤️
6:37 Gorgeous Hair 😍😊
7:42 yummy 🤤😋
Awww thank you! You made my day 😃. What girl doesn’t like to hear her hair is looking good!
Sooo glad you found the food yummy! I told baba and she got so happy 😀❤️
“Sharan” is called carp in English and it is consumed in many Western European countries.
I don’t know 🤷🏻♀️ I had number of English, German and French friends say that they would never eat this fish because it is “dirty”. I am glad to hear you say that people do enjoy it in the west because it is delicious!
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 I have had the same reactions 😂 but it is delicious
Its a dead carp!😆
😂😂😂
These fish dont taste tinja in winter time,its the vegetation they eat that makes them taste tinja!
Yes exactly! 👍🏻
À while ago I bought a wood saw with handles on both sides. They told me Bulgarians call it "sharran" after the fish. Apparently this fish has large teeth?
Hmmmm 🤔 Sharan doesn’t have big teeth. It hardly has any teeth at all actually 😃. There is another very popular fish in Bulgaria called “shtooka” (щука) that has very big teeth. I think shtooka translates to “pike” in English. Are you sure they didn’t mean “shtooka”?
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 could be 😁
mam please share Bulgarian shengun country and work easy ly and move Germany easy please help me
Hi! I really want to help you but the truth is it’s not easy to get a visa via Bulgaria to Germany. It was a bit easier a few years ago but the government caught on that people are using Bulgaria as a gateway country to get to Germany so they made the rules much stricter. For example, to buy a house in Bulgaria you have to be a citizen.
I had a friend from Pakistan who wanted to get a work visa for Bulgaria and then go to Holland and I did everything I could to help but they still denied him 😔. Unfortunately Europe is not easy to get into anymore because economically people are struggling here too.
how old is your boyfriend he looks 15 to 20 years older
He’s the same age as me. 8 months older to be exact. He just looks much older than his age