What I Eat with My BABA in the BALKANS 🥘 aka What I Eat with My Grandma in BULGARIA EASTERN EUROPE
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- So, you want to know what we eat in Eastern Europe? I left the farm for a few days to spend time at Baba Nina’s (my Grandma) house in Sofia, Bulgaria (Southern Balkans) and have been loving second if it! Of course, life with Baba is centered around FOOD (very very delicious food 😋) and I thought it would be exciting to share some of what she cooks with you! 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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I’m Greek girl (really close to Bulgaria) and right now I’m in the village with my grandma for the summertime and this exactly my life and I love it sooo much despite of being a city girl. We have soooo much similarities in lifestyle.
Ooooooo that’s so cool! I see Greece from my window. Next time I will wave at you 😃❤️
We definitely have sooooo much in common
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 I know we are soooo close. You actually will wave at Macedonia ❤️ love Bulgaria sooo much ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ех, че готино!!!Гледала съм подобни видеа от други държави, но истински се радвам, че сега ще гледам и български вариант!
Хаха благодаря!! Многооо се радвам че ви е зарадвало този клип 😊😊
Надявам се много да ви е харесало!
Качих още 3 подобни клипчета (с другата ми баба, пак с Баба Нина, и “какви ядем на село”). Пускам ги долу 😃
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Oh the food! What a treasure and blessing to have your Babas, so special.
I’m so glad you like Baba’s food! I just finished this week’s video which is going to be about what I eat at my other Baba’s house 😋. It is truly a blessing!
Sisters of Bulgaria, wish you all the best!! greetings from your brother in Kyrgyzstan !!
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Многу вкусни јадења ❤
Поздрав од Македонија 🇲🇰
Молим те прашај ја баба ти, дали сака зет од Македонија 😊
Baba Nina's food is wonderful! Are you learning the recipes, Laurie ?
I will tell her you said that! She will get so happy you think so ❤️. Oooo I am! I write everything down… but she has a magic touch that I can’t master yet! 😃
What, no boza and banitsa for breakfast? I love mekitsa, we have it sometimes in the US, but often when we visit the boy's Baba (my MIL). We always have to bring back packs of chubritsa. We eat endless shopska salad when in BG. I can't wait to return this summer to get spoiled by Baba's cooking. Nazdravei!
Haha booza and banitza was another day! 😃
My favorite is hot banitza with “Ayran” 🥛 sooooo good.
Your life sounds so amazing!!! Having a baba to love you and cook for you is the best thing in life 😊.
Ooooo my mom and sister also bring back so much chubritza when they come!! They also bring red pepper, djodjen, rigan, laika, lipa and so much more. Their suitcases are always packed with more herbs and spices than clothes hahah 🧳
Радвам се, че въпреки си израснала в мегаполис като New York ти си запазила българският дух в себе си !!! България има нужда от нас ❤ поздрави от Нидерландия
I am greek and with my grandma we also used to make tursi and musaka and pies and fried donughts and and go to pazar and drink the tea you showed and eat those berries that you showed and also the green plums it was our summer delicacy as kids
Ooooo it sounds like you had a golden childhood! We visit Greece veryyyyy often. We love your seafood haha. Not to mention the fun dinners we have with your people ❤️
С трамвай 5, в посока Княжево, се отива само до пазара "Красно село". Страхотно видео❤
I was a lot of times in Bulgarian houses as a guest and i enjoyed all little plates and a lot o Rakia! Greetings from Greece!
We visit Greece all the time too! I was just there 2 weeks ago 😃. We loveeee your seafood and salads. Greetings from Bulgaria! 🇬🇷 🇧🇬
We cook pretty much the same recipes in Romania (including the “sarmale”/cabbage rolls and the fried sweet dough which is similar to our doughnuts). We also have your pazar (here bazar or piață) literally everywhere, wit fresh and healthy products brought from people’s home gardens). Enjoy!
And since I heard you speaking Bulgarian, our cucumbers are “castraveți’, our garden is “grădină”, etc., etc.
@@ramonasimut445 ... and you say "Da" for "Yes" as all Latin people do.
@@firelight-vitality I wish.
How awesome! I have a few friends from Romania and we always dance “horo” together 💃🏻 🎶 I think we have a lot of similarities ❤️🇷🇴 🇧🇬
Lovely to see you ladies enjoying time together. Your baba and I share that love of dough based foods.
Thank you so much! Oooooo she LOVES dough!!! She wakes up at 3am to make sweet bread 😃
I love Bulgaria! I was on 2017 in Bulgaria. Pozdrawiam z Polski!
Oh wow! I’m so happy you were able to visit and enjoyed it! I hope to visit beautiful Poland one day ❤️💖
This clip made me hungry. Your grandmothers are lucky. For most, it's usually the other way around. Grandmothers live in the country, and they send fresh food to the grandchildren in the city :)
I told Baba you got hungry watching her food and she invited you to dinner 😃. Honestly, I never thought about that before but you are so right! All my friends have grandparents who live na selo and get their goodies from them. I guess Baba and I are both lucky: I bring the food and she cooks it 😋
I LOVE these videos!!! Keep them coming!! ❤ 😋
Thank you so much!! 💖💖💖
Another beautiful and fun video, thank you. I loved every moment of it, so very interesting seeing real life and traditions in Bulgaria. Blessings for a wonderful new year to you and your family. 💖🥀🌻🌲🌳
Thank you so much John! I am very happy you are finding life and traditions in Bulgaria interesting! Baba and I are wishing you and your family a very happy new year! 😊🥂💖🎉
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 ♥🍾 Happy New Year! 🎆
Oh wow! Your baba is lovely! I love her expressions over the the food you brought to her. True gratitude and delight. Life is good.
Aww thank you so much! I told her what you said and she got so flattered 😊. Her whole face got red 😄. Yes, she is always very grateful, as I am to her. She takes such good care of all of us! ❤️
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 yes, she's an international superstar now!
Haha I never thought of it that way! 😆 Just wait until I tell her! 😁😆
Hi Laurie, once again a wonderful video,... the food, the market, and most of all your lovely and wise babas, enjoyed it very much and still hope we will meet one day, I leave for Bulgaria in my rig of hope and dreams around beginning op april.
Hi Michel! Thank you so much 😊 It makes me so happy that you enjoyed the food, markets and my Baba’s! They both got so happy when I told them and send you much love! I hope we meet as well! Let me know when you leave in April 😊. It sounds like you have a lot of fun and amazing adventures ahead of you!
3:37 We have a lot of strawberries, cherries ................."and an angel's kiss in spring".
Ooooooo sounds divine! Speaking of, what is “an angel’s kiss in spring”? 😮
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Chestnuts another favourite that was very popular in England many years ago when there were more open fires before the age of central heating.
Ooooo aren’t they delicious!! They have to be fresh though. My last batch had maggots inside 😄😄
Снимай баба ти докато готви и да каже рецептата , така ще е най интересно .👍
И моля ти се добави български в автоматичните субтитри 😊
Ооооо добре! Стига да искаш! 😊 Баба ще е много щастлива 😃
Оффф тези автоматични субтитри… ако знаеш от кога се мъча да ги включа 😩. Днес пак ще проуча! Имаш ли идея случайно как става тази работа? Гледала съм клипчета в UA-cam и май се прави в UA-cam Studio , но имали някакви документи който съм трябвала да попълня за субтитрите .. просто не мога да го разбера.
🖐️ много ще се радвам ако наистина се получи да снимаш с рецептите , виждам че баба ти е наистина извор за идеи на вкусни храни ❤ и бързо ги прави.
Обаче нямам идея как се добавят Бг суб.
понеже ти имаш 16 езика мислех че просто добавяш и нашия . Дано се получи 😊
Do you have the toursi recipe? My mom use to make it all the time. So good. 😊
Yes! I have a video just on how to make “Cabbage Toursia”. We used a new method this year which didn’t require constant “pretakvane” and it worked great! I’ll post the link below in case you want to take a look.
Your mom sounds like a great chef and persevere of history! 😃❤️
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The Chicken 🍗 looks yummy 😋🤤
Ooooooo IT WAS!! 🍗 😋 I wish I could send you some in the mail 😃
That stuffing looks like it has some raisins in it. I wish I had a Baba to cook for me.
It does! Good observation!! I forgot to mention them 😃. Well, if you are ever in Bulgaria you are more than welcome to join us for lunch or dinner.. or both! My grandma is right here next to me and got so happy that you liked her food ❤️. She says you are welcome with open arms 😊
Chubritza is Summer Savory...predi az zhivea Sofia 4 1/2 godini ❤
Oooo Mersi!! I have to write that down because I never know what Chubritza is in English 😃
Sofia is one of my favorite places to live ❤️
Sofia is Ok for a short stay but small town Bulgaria is the best! I’m sure that you also make Compote with all that fresh fruit and berries. My Baba made Tiganitsi which is very similar to the Mekitsi. Try putting some BG feta in the batter….
Oooo I agree! There is nothing better than Selo! I have to admit, I don’t remember Baba ever using the word Tiganitsa when cooking but it sounds very familiar. I will ask her!
Thank you for reminding me! She does put Bulgarian cheese in the Buhtichki batter!!! I can’t believe I forgot to mention that because she always says that this is the secret to what makes them so yummy! I will remember to include this in future videos 😊
Yes! We make compotes and jams and medicines and much more! I actually made a few videos on this 😃. I willI send you link to one on them in case you want to take a look 👀😊
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@@sistersofbulgaria9396 Could be a Bansko word. Keep enjoying a great life and I hope that you don’t start smoking cigarettes like everyone else there! Said seriously but humorously too.
I want to visit your баба! She can teach me recipes! 😁
She says welcome!! Just let her know what you like you eat and you got it! 😉😊🥘🌶️🥬📍
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 Ask if we can start with кюфтета & мекици and we can go from there! 😁
was it a shock to come back in Bulgaria after spending all your life in America
To be honest it was not a very big shock for me but this is because I have been coming to Bulgaria every summer my whole life so I knew what to expect. The bigger shock was moving from such a big city to a rural way of life. Even big towns seem rural compared to NYC lol. 😃
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Thank you so much for watching! And for this lovely comment! 😊
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You speak very well Bulgarian..Were i live in North Carolina there was not many Bulgarians..I had little bit hard time wen i moved back with the language barrier after living 30 years abroad..
Oooo don’t worry, you will remember the language perfectly very soon (I’m sure you already did!).
My parents would send my sister and I to Bulgaria every summer for 2-3 months so I learned to speak, read and write when I was little. We also spoke a lot of Bulgarian at home with my mom and sister. I think that’s why I can speak it well enough.. but I do still have an accent! 😃
Hi Laurie, my name is Gareth from A Taste of Bulgaria. I was wondering if you wished to Collaborate on a video?
Hi Gareth! Thank you for reaching out. That sounds like a very cool idea. I’d love to talk more about it 😊
OOOhhh - your back with family and you know the culture the people and the language...Not a foreigner from somewhere else without money and that have to do the investments in the unknown building everything from scratch...well all kinds of videos are welcome..
I never said I was a foreigner. I am a proud Bulgarian in my OWN country. I lived in America my whole life to go to school and moved back to Bulgaria- how else would I have perfect English?? This does not mean I didn’t build what I have from scratch. Everything we have we earned with our blood, sweat and tears. But then again why I am explaining myself to you? You don’t like my channel- then leave 🤷🏻♀️
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 Bulgarians as rude as always...I did not say I did not like it. Yours are new 🆕 I just watched it. I did not know alot about it - but I will. Just a little bit unknown at first.
Well, with all due respect your comments from my other video came across as very rude and accusatory. You could have simply asked and I would have explained- not comment in such as way as to imply I am lying. Yes, we Bulgarians are defensive when we feel attacked. I think if you knew me you would know that I am the nicest person you will probably ever meet, until I feel attacked. Then claws come out because I am fed up with rude people all looking to out to put others down. I left NYC because I was sick of mean people. It sounds like your comment came across the wrong way and I misunderstood you. I appreciate you explaining and apologize if I came across as rude back but I think you can understand how someone could take your comment the wrong way.
пирог не з аличі точно
It is most definitely plums. We made it again together a few days later. Just mixed with the big ones called “сини сливи” 🙂