What I Eat with Baba (Grandma) in Bulgaria 🥐Authentic Village Cooking: Traditional “Козунак”🥖
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Bulgaria is all about traditional living and cooking and Easter in Bulgaria is no different! Today I will show you another amazing dish my Baba (grandma) cooks in our little Balkan paradise: Bulgarian Kuzunak (Козунак)!! This is a big deal because Baba agreed to share her secret recipe with you all and I really think you will enjoy this festive deliciousness!
Warning: Kuzunak is very difficult to make and requires tedious attention to detail. IT TOOK US 15 HOURS TO MAKE!! But was well worth it! 🥖🥯 🍞
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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Happy Easter ! 12:12 Yum 😋
THANK YOU!!!! Ooooo it was! 😋
Happy Easter! My Baba would make Kusinyak too. She loved making it and we loved eating it!
Ooooo you are so lucky! 🍀 Not everyone gets to taste fresh Kuzunak made by baba! 👵🏻 🥖
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 I was very lucky for that and a lot of other Baba reasons just as you are now!
Thank you for sharing and happy Easter to you all ❤ Christ has risen
Thank you so much for watching! Христос Воскресе! 🐇❤️🐣
And a big ol HOWDY to Baba Nina! ❤ Just an FYI, and I think many would agree, Бих гледал с часове как баба Нина готви! 😁
Haha I’m glad you saw that! And so happy Baba’s cooking is interesting!! I just wish you could taste it too 😋
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 I'll get there eventually 🤣 Not sure I could handle a 4 day holiday weekend though! Are you sure y'all couldn't squeeze one more holiday in? National Day of Napping maybe? 🤔😁
Hi, I subscribed early on and then lost you. I enjoy your videos and tales from your home country. Wish I was as good a cook as Baba. We have dairy cows,pigs, chickens, and ducks here. Not to be a know it all, but pig fat is Lard, also that looks like yummy raw milk…the fat there would be the cream. I hope this doesn’t seem critical. Looking forward to the next video. 🌝
I’m so happy you found me again! I think what’s going on is you need to click the little bell icon so that you get notifications every Sunday when I post. Otherwise for some reason the videos don’t always pop up. I only just learned about this myself because people have been commenting telling me they aren’t getting notified of new videos and we realized it’s because the bell icon needs to be on.
You are so lucky to have such a big farm with so many different animals!! No doubt you get to enjoy the best food.
Thank you for letting me know! You are not being a know it all at all!! I appreciate any and all corrections. I find myself having a hard time bouncing between languages at times 😄. For example, I know “pig fat” only in Bulgarian as “mas” because I only experienced farm life here. In NYC I didn’t come across “pig fat” often enough to realize that it was called “lard”. Thank you for letting me know! And thank you for the way you delivered the corrections- you were very kind and thoughtful in how you worded everything 😊
I appreciate you watching very much and am very happy you enjoyed! Hope to hear from you again next Sunday!! 😊 🌞
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Your channel just came across mine, everything tastes better with pig fat, ;0 reminds me of cooking with my Grandmother. I've had to work in NYC many times, ugh,, GG on leaving that place.. Hello from Miami
I’m so happy to hear you agree with me on the pig fat 😋 It sounds like your grandma was an amazing cook!! 👩🏻🍳 Hello from Bulgaria!
we still need to meet up. We now have our visas and are here in Drabishna
Congratulations on the visas! I am here right now for Easter but leaving later today to help my grandmother. She broke her leg and we are caring for her. When things settle down I will message you 🙂
Pork fat is the same as Crisco Lard that is bought , most people seem to not want to hear where there produce actually came from . Around here come fall the people who still butcher hogs in fall always sell pork lard by the one gallon pail for way cheaper then store bought . Waiting to see what’s inside this dish …….
I have never heard of Crisco Lard! Very interesting. I have heard of regular lard but didn’t think of the word when filming. Thank you for clarifying! We also jar lard and cook with it all winter. ❄️
I think you will enjoy the next steps that go into making kozunak! 😋 Thanks for watching!
@@sistersofbulgaria9396 Sometimes called by different names but anything white and used in baking etc is usually lard
😮 soo complicated and it's like looking after a baby!
I only use 7g / ¼oz of fast acting yeast powder for bread, different standards, I guess your Baba uses live yeast 😊
Just wait until you see what comes next! You haven’t seen anything yet! It gets wayyy crazier 😄
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