Traditional Mountain Village Life | Cooking Fresh Lamb in a Homemade Bulgarian Ember Oven
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Today we will be cooking fresh lamb Village Style, using a traditional homemade ember oven. This is a method passed down to us from generations before and one we intend to keep alive. You are in for a feast!
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. 🌱
#villagelife #villagecooking #mountainvillage #животнасело
Браво за тертипа!!!!! Рядко съм виждал такова нещо! Още веднъж поздравления!
Благодаря!!! Много се радвам че ти харесва нашия начин на живот! 😊 🇧🇬
Looks like everyone had fun...It is great to see people enjoying themselves like that!
The purpose of life is to live happily. I wish happiness to you and your family! ❤️
Interesting as my father's grandparents were German by culture but ethically from the Baltic states ( Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, or along the Polish Baltic Sea Coast) Lamb was cooked similar to a pig roast over hot coals or hot charcoal either in a pit dug into the ground, usually in the clay subsoil or a split steel barrel during more modern times. They made their yeast from potatoe water. In fact, both sets of grandparents, as my mother's half of the family was German, used potatoe water. ( Racially, the Baltic states are a mixed breed consisting of German, Russian, and some Finish or Swedish ancestory and how we cooked things was usually German or Russian or a mix of ) I agree with your guest American large cucumbers are editable, but have a different flavor than the smaller ones. My wife and I use both from our much smaller garden as we really can not afford to waste the bigger ones. It might be interesting to cook a large part of your pig in your stone stove similarly as you cooked your lamb. Bread making was very important to my grandparents and is still important to us grandchildren who are now grandparents. So much so that men are not excluded from the task. Therefore, Johnny needs to bake bread. ( well at least from my perspective) Your sister, the silent partner, in the video series needs to know how to bake bread. If nothing else, it would make a great video as bread making usually never turns out right the first time. Unless, Grandma very closely supervises it and then it may turn out right. But as a life couple you need to bake bread as an individual, on your own, successfully.
Sounds like I need to make a video on us having a go at baking bread! 🥖 I actually really like the idea and think it will make for a very fun and informative video. I will definitely be sure to do it 🥂🌞
Another great feast! Thank You for sharing! Really appreciate the information on culture and customs!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
I just wish I could send you some lamb and rakia in the mail 😃😄🥂🥖
It's good to see you keeping your traditions alive. It's so easy to loose them and then they can be lost forever. Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.
I couldn’t agree more! Thanks for watching! Always so good to hear from you 😃🌞
Always love the content! ❤
Glad you enjoy it! 🌞❤️🥂🥖
Yummy!
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Love the home cooking, Laurie. I hope to find something like this some day.
I love home cooking too! I used to be obsessed with restaurants but quickly learned that there is nothing better than cooking and enjoying a meal with your loved ones 🌞🥂
Very good 👌. Lovely to see family living the way they should 💞
Thank you so much 🙂
I couldn’t agree more!
Beautiful, lovely, interesting, impressive❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much 😀❤️
Thanks for sharing! And sharing your beautiful smile! Have a great week!
Thanks for watching! And for the lovely compliment! 😃🥂🌞
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 😍😍
Be happy with simple things ❤
This is the secret to happiness!
So much fun!
I think so too! 🤩
11:52 - Ако много внимателно се загледате ще видите един простор, обаче това се вижда само, ако наистина много внимателно гледате!
Хахаха 😄😃😁
Masha Allah, the food is very delicious and you make great videos. May Allah bless you.
Thank you so much! I’m so happy you are enjoying! 🌞
you do a great job of narration, such a soothing voice..!
Thank you so much! I’m so happy to hear you are enjoying! 🌞😊🌞😊
Very hardworking ❤❤❤❤❤
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Браво! Всичко е топ! Джони е късметлия! 😀
Много се радвам че ти харесва! Само ако можех да ти изпратя малко агнешко през пощата… 😋😄🥂
Благодаря! ❤Важно е желанието! 😁Малко остава и се прибирам в България за постоянно, и редовно ще си угаждам с всякакви български благинки!🤤
Everyone Looks so lovely....the video brings back memories for myself My ex was from a small village in the north of Hungary. When we would go back the whole village would come over and they had the huge kettle making hungarian goulash and pork.....hope all is well with you Laurie....greetings from 76th & 5th Manhattan.
Thank you so much! I’m so happy I could bring back old memories. It sounds like you have a lot to be very happy about! 😊🥂
Dagnabbit! 😂 Сега искам агнешко за вечеря! И Бъди мил с Гошо! Няма да изяде цялото грозде. Просто ги тества. Той иска да е сигурен, че са безопасни за вас! #екипгошо
Хахаха охххх ако можех да ти изпратя агнешко през пощата!! Хаха Гошо е чудо!! 🫏😃
By the way your Bulgarian is getting better and better! Браво!
@sistersofbulgaria9396 Дума по дума. Ден след ден. Това е единственият начин. 😁
I really enjoy your videos and your culture is excellent
Thank you so much! I’m so so happy you are enjoying!!
Amazing vidéo Thanks!
Glad you liked it! 😃
The perfect life! ^^
I agree! 🥂😃
Yummy!!!!!!!!!
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Outstanding
Thank you so much! So happy you are enjoying! 🌞
@ Have a great week
Very excellent video❤❤❤❤❤❤❤, always i like your videos ❤❤❤❤❤, enjoying ❤❤❤❤❤
Many many thanks! ❤️
Wow, very super lamb meat, very testy, yummy, ❤❤❤❤❤❤, enjoying ❤❤❤❤
Thank you 😋 It’s very yummy
Good times... 🐐🔥🥂😍
Yes it was!! 🥂☀️🍇
Има стъклени дамаджанки по 5-10 л по сайтовете за втора употреба, купи си и по-добре дръжте ракията в тях да е по-автентично и здравословно :)Johnny really experienced the culture :D
Супер идея! Носих едни много красиви шишета от Америка, но са много малки 😄
Ще търсим такива дамаджани. Благодаря! 🥂
Oooo Jonny is a new man 😃
Your special dress, which is from the village, is a similar colorful dress in our country too. Masha Allah, your dress is very cute.
Oh wow! Which country is that?
Hi laurie, how are you? Have a nice day, good morning ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Good morning! 🌞 Best wishes to you and your family! ❤️
Another great feast, thank you for sharing this, Laurie
I'm sad for Gosho. Was he maltreated, so he's scared of humans ? Often scared animals attack as the best means of defence.
Thank you!! I’m so glad you enjoyed!!
Ooooo no no 😃 Don’t worry about Gosho at all. He is living his best life and is very loved. He is just wild 😃🫏
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 Sorry Laurie, I hadn't even considered that he was wild 💩 I'm from an animal rescue environment so tend to think like that, as that's what I see.
Good job❤❤❤❤
Thank you!
20:40 Laurie, it's called "sourdough bread"
Ah I had a feeling that was what it was called but it tastes different than the sourdough bread we get in America lol. I guess there are different methods to preparing it. Thank you!
@ Over there in Bulgaria flour is with out additives 👍
vıdeolarını hayranlıkla izliyoruz Türkiye den selamlar
I’m so happy you are enjoying! Greetings from Bulgaria! 🌞
Laurie, you are so cute❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you! 🙏🏻
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if you dont know this homemade is healtiest soap,is good for the scin ,not,as chemicals,from the store.За рани се прави мехлем от свинска мас невен и лавандула,доколкото помня,а си намери 3 те тома на Петър Димков Българска Народна Медицина,има всички рецепти от билките,след като се интересуваш
Wash day video with clothes line footage please 🙏 🥰😛🤩👍🏻
Буквално усетих миризмата на агнешкото :)
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Have you recovered from your illness Laurie ive noticed all the videos are from the summer
I’m still not 100% well. I’m doing my best to keep up posting every week but cannot film new footage at the moment. Thank you for checking in..
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 I pray in JESUS name you have a rapid full recovery from the effects of pneumonia and return to full health GOD bless you Laurie xx
no videos from autumn or winter ? only videos from summer
I’m still not 100% well. I’m doing my best to keep up posting every week but cannot film new footage at the moment.
@sistersofbulgaria9396 sorry, didn't know there was some issue i hope you are getting better?
it was easy avoid the slaughter of animals ,by selling them to market ,But doing it for yourself ,as parents tradition was producing meat for self .But modern farming was producing thousands of pigs for the market ,or send cows to market to be bought by butcher ,Never had to deal ,with the dark side of farming ,when a teenager ,and only before no cars ,people had to do this .And life was about butchering own stock years ago .and women ,or grand mother killed chickens ,everyday to feed a hungry large family say ,It was survival living on chickens ,or lambs ,or calves even .If it gets easier to do ,or having lived by this life ,so know other way ,and never had supermarket to see ,easier ways of living
yes, slaughtering our own animals for food causes us to contemplate the earths cycle of life and death. We can better understand the sacrifice of a life being lost, to sustain other lives. Whereas when we purchase a cut of meat from the supermarket, or butcher's shop, it's easier for us to not need to stop to think about the sacrifice
I agree with you 100%. I’m really disturbed by the mass amount of animals that are bred and mistreated for meat. I always think about it when I see meat in the supermarkets and it really disturbs me.
Raising your own animals with love and care and only butchering one animals for the whole family is the right way to do things in my opinion. It’s sad that we no longer live this way.
ABSOLUTELY!! You said it perfectly
Ей, с къв кеф бих ви дошъл на гости!
Заповядай! 🥂😃
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 Като нищо ще заповядам 😀
You need to block Qasim. Stalker.
I know why you think this but don’t worry. I’ve known him for a while. He just a nice guy and likes to post a lot of comments 😃
ТЕЗИ НОВИТЕ СЪСЕДИ, КОИТО ИЗВИКАХА ПОЛИЦИЯТА, БЪЛГАРИ ЛИ СА?
Българи! 😮 😱
Well let's see, you're having a печено, there are many Caniai aureusi in your midst,Тейлър Суифт might drop by & полицията have dropped by.
Hahaha печено или чеверме… не знам кое е по вкусно 😃
Can you believe the police was called! 😂 It’s all good now.. we made friends with the neighbors and even have them over
Защо говорите на английски след като сте само българи
Очевидно Джони не е :)
Е, някои хора по Света упорито си внушават, че като имат Макдоналдс (🤮🤮🤮) и вече са в Рая.
Наш'та малка мацка нагледно им показва колко мноу съ съ убъркАли.
Разбираш ли идеята? Правилно постъпва маценцето!
Не сме само Българи тук. Имаме гостенин от Америка.
Ти ме разбираш на пълно! Искам хората по света да видят как се живее в България! 😃 🇧🇬
"Машалла" и "Евалла" са ислямистки слова във възхвала на Аллах ползвани от мюсюлманите. Когато се ползва от български християни изглежда нелепо. Хубаво е човек когато приказва, поне да осъзнава смисъла на думите които изрича.
Бъдете здрави! 🍀
Много добре знам от къде идват думите, и си ги ползвам с удоволствие. Не смятам че е “нелепо”. Всеки си решава сам.
И вие да сте здрави 🍀
@sistersofbulgaria9396 Ваше право, Вие си решавате какво да говорите, но е наистина учудващо да се чуват подобни неща символизиращи най-сериозния опит да бъде унищожен българския народ и култура, от човек който я обича и пропагандира.
Тия диви турски пълчища днес се опитват да унищожават кюрдите в Сирия, Ирак и на своя територия, а не отдавна ,през 70те унищожаваха и гърците отново. В тях нищо не се е променило от османската окупация до днес.