This August I visited my friend Gaga. She is a fellow blogger, a great friend and I love her so much!
Last year we made Čomlek together and this time she took me to her parent’s house in village Sumrakovac. Together with her mother Bine, we made one of the best dinners of my life!
Kačamak
Kačamak was one of the main poor people food in the old days. Today, it is made by cooking polenta and later adding yogurt or milk. Gaga’s mom Bine showed me how it was made in the past, using tools that were used in their family for many generations. This version is made with white corn flour and substitutes bread.
The tools are called čurkalo and kačamalo.
Like all the old Serbian recipes this is also prepared on a wooden stove. Start with boiling water. Then add white corn flour and start stirring using čurkalo.
If needed, add more flour to thicken it. When it is half way done and thicker you will need to use kačamalo for stirring.
And this is how the cooked kačamak looks like. When it’s done it is transfered onto a wooden board called lopar.
Liver in Caul Fat
Liver in caul fat is another old Serbian recipe. It is made by mincing pork liver and other offal, all wrapped in pleura of the pig (the fatty membrane surrounding pig lungs). Might sound disgusting but it’s delicious actually and caul fat is often used to wrap meat for the grilling.
There is a complete recipe on Gaga’s blog.
Bine’s Bread
There is something about bread baked in a wooden stove that makes it so much better than baked in the electric oven…
Plain bread dough with yeast, flour and water…
First, it is baked on top of the stove. When almost done, it is transfered into the oven.
Bine also made Serbian Gibanica, phyllo pie with cheese filling.
And Gaga and me cooked my goulash with venison
Epic!
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Marija, jođ jedan odličan izveštaj u seriji "antropologija hrane". Nema dela koji mi se ne svidja. A o fotkama da ne govorim. Izvanredno!
Fotke su me totalno oduševile, ne znam što mi izgleda ljepše i ukusnije. :)Posebno je dobra ova fotka Gage koju sam već vidjela na fejsu. :)Vidim da ste baš uživale zajedno i pomalo vam zavidim.:)
these old recipes are the most delicious! people could really cook in the old days, and using simple ingredients they succeeded in bringing out all those flavours!
Wow, beautiful pictures !!
Fenomenalan post… uzivala sam citajuci ga. Slike su fenomenalne a hrana tako mami… Ma savrseno!
Awsome post and fantastic pictures!!!You and Gaga are a "Dreamteam"!
Love those pictures. My mama cooked on a wood stove when I was small and your pictures bring back memories. I loved your post.
Whoa this sounds amazing! Especially those phyllo cheese pies. They have me drooling… It's amazing the things that can happen when two foodies get together!
I've never cooked Serbian before, but you might just inspire me. Beautiful photos – those phyllo pieces are too tempting.
Bravo vas dve, tri… koliko vas je vec
Wow. Wow. Wow. I am so impressed by your cooking techniques here. Beautiful!
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