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Dec 29, 2010 1:50:27 GMT -5
Post by terroreign on Dec 29, 2010 1:50:27 GMT -5
The best balkan snack to me has go to be, hands down - Burek. It is addicting with Jogurt and Ajvar, and it's for me a must-have whenever I'm in the old country, in fact I just finished eating some home-made right now. ;D There are several sorts, I prefer the beef though....preferably of the "Rolled" variety. Soft, chewy and hot from the oven....it's #1
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Dec 29, 2010 6:35:51 GMT -5
Post by Novus Dis on Dec 29, 2010 6:35:51 GMT -5
Potato. And it's called pita where I come from.
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Dec 29, 2010 6:51:11 GMT -5
Post by Kralj Vatra on Dec 29, 2010 6:51:11 GMT -5
Sa mesom za mene molim! I jednu casu mleka!
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Dec 29, 2010 7:44:39 GMT -5
Post by Novus Dis on Dec 29, 2010 7:44:39 GMT -5
Sa mesom za mene molim! I jednu casu mleka! Yes! Milk for me too.
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Dec 29, 2010 8:04:55 GMT -5
Post by Patrinos on Dec 29, 2010 8:04:55 GMT -5
Potato. And it's called pita where I come from. you come from Greece? spanakopita!Lately I've tasted kremmydopita, onion-pita, which is great!
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Dec 29, 2010 8:21:29 GMT -5
Post by odel on Dec 29, 2010 8:21:29 GMT -5
Potato. And it's called pita where I come from. you come from Greece? We call it Pite, we're not Greek though. Also seemingly Krivo, we like our Burek just the same. It's probably because of the Albanian in you
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Dec 29, 2010 9:12:35 GMT -5
Post by Kralj Vatra on Dec 29, 2010 9:12:35 GMT -5
Potato. And it's called pita where I come from. you come from Greece? spanakopita!Lately I've tasted kremmydopita, onion-pita, which is great! Dude dont copy Epirotan recipes. You guys down there, have Sygglino, Tsigarida, loads of pork, Lalagia, which i like very much. I like peloponesean food, but i dont think you have speciality in Pitas like we Epirots have. BTW, keep in mind that very close to the Epirotan Pitas are the Pitas from the Muslims in Bosnia. Deucaon most probably have tasted those. Now, despite the ressemblence between Epirotan and Boslim pitas, there is huge difference between the ingredients of Epirotan pitas and the Serbians. Epirots (and albs) have lots of feta, spinach, chicken, wheat. Serbs have a lot of corn, wheat of various kinds and pork!!!
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Dec 29, 2010 9:28:04 GMT -5
Post by Emperor AAdmin on Dec 29, 2010 9:28:04 GMT -5
Meat with yogurt (here in us it is called butter milk)
We use the word pita also.
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Dec 29, 2010 9:32:54 GMT -5
Post by Novus Dis on Dec 29, 2010 9:32:54 GMT -5
Oh! Greek yoghurt is nice. And pavlaka.
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Dec 29, 2010 9:59:51 GMT -5
Post by Kralj Vatra on Dec 29, 2010 9:59:51 GMT -5
Oh! Greek yoghurt is nice. And pavlaka. Ooopss over there in Foca do you call it Pavlaka or Vrhnje? My wife calls it "Vrhnje", i think she needs a little "serbification" ;D!!
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Dec 29, 2010 10:14:44 GMT -5
Post by Patrinos on Dec 29, 2010 10:14:44 GMT -5
you come from Greece? spanakopita!Lately I've tasted kremmydopita, onion-pita, which is great! Dude dont copy Epirotan recipes. You guys down there, have Sygglino, Tsigarida, loads of pork, Lalagia, which i like very much. I like peloponesean food, but i dont think you have speciality in Pitas like we Epirots have. BTW, keep in mind that very close to the Epirotan Pitas are the Pitas from the Muslims in Bosnia. Deucaon most probably have tasted those. Now, despite the ressemblence between Epirotan and Boslim pitas, there is huge difference between the ingredients of Epirotan pitas and the Serbians. Epirots (and albs) have lots of feta, spinach, chicken, wheat. Serbs have a lot of corn, wheat of various kinds and pork!!! Epirotic pites are better when it comes to spanakopites(spinach, and generally "green"). The rest are equal, even if I think that the tyropita from Elia, which I know, is magnificent. My wife calls it "Vrhnje", i think she needs a little "serbification" ;D!! vrhnje? can you pronounce this word?? 5 consonants vs 1 vowel!!
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Dec 29, 2010 11:00:51 GMT -5
Post by Emperor AAdmin on Dec 29, 2010 11:00:51 GMT -5
vrhnje? can you pronounce this word?? 5 consonants vs 1 vowel!! welcome to the Slavic linguistic universe where the words just roll of the tongue ;D ;D ;D Try this patrino very fast (we would play this as kids, not sure why though) Vrba mrda na vrh brda Vrba mrda na vrh brda Vrba mrda na vrh brda Vrba mrda na vrh brda Vrba mrda na vrh brda Vrba mrda na vrh brda Be careful since it might get your tongue tied up ;D (seriously) Getting a suspect to repeat this 100 times in a row without a break might get a confession even out of an innocent man, I'll tell you that much (meaning is next to impossible).
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Dec 29, 2010 11:12:11 GMT -5
Post by logjiktek on Dec 29, 2010 11:12:11 GMT -5
Laknor/Lakror/Byrek/Pite it's the same thing in Albania but maybe the styles are different?
My father worked in a Byrek shop when he was younger and he has perfected the art IMO. We usually do feta cheese, pras (I'm not exactly sure what it's called in English lol), meat and sometimes potato. Once in a while my dad does an Apple pie version of Byrek. I'm not a big fan of it but my siblings are.
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Dec 29, 2010 11:26:55 GMT -5
Post by Kralj Vatra on Dec 29, 2010 11:26:55 GMT -5
vrhnje? can you pronounce this word?? 5 consonants vs 1 vowel!! 4 consonants, nj is one sound. (you know "Ni" as the peloponeseans pronounce it ) Anyway, there are words with no vowel at all : Trst, Krv, Smrt, etc.. ;D
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Dec 29, 2010 11:29:38 GMT -5
Post by zoti on Dec 29, 2010 11:29:38 GMT -5
We usually do feta cheese, pras (I'm not exactly sure what it's called in English lol) Pras is Leek in English. Albanians prefer by and large feta cheese. We like feta cheese on everything. When I ordered a Pljeskavica burger at this Bosnian place in Queens the waitress asked us if we were Albanian. We asked her "why do ask?" She goes "All the Albanians ask for feta cheese in the burger"
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Dec 29, 2010 11:32:04 GMT -5
Post by rex362 on Dec 29, 2010 11:32:04 GMT -5
I take mine with beef kidney .....yum yum .....and even tripe/skhembe and might as well not have any if no homemade yogurt/kos or buttermilk/dhall on the table pras?? I think we call it presh ...poor boy lakror btw....how about ithra ...what you call that in english ??
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Dec 29, 2010 11:43:23 GMT -5
Post by Emperor AAdmin on Dec 29, 2010 11:43:23 GMT -5
Albanians prefer by and large feta cheese. We like feta cheese on everything. When I ordered a Pljeskavica burger at this Bosnian place in Queens the waitress asked us if we were Albanian. We asked her "why do ask?" She goes "All the Albanians ask for feta cheese in the burger" That's the Greek inside them that is trying to come out ;D (just teasing)
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Dec 29, 2010 12:17:54 GMT -5
Post by rex362 on Dec 29, 2010 12:17:54 GMT -5
stinging nettles .....never new that
my mom makes a tea out of that stuff and also in lakror
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Dec 29, 2010 12:26:49 GMT -5
Post by zoti on Dec 29, 2010 12:26:49 GMT -5
That's the Greek inside them that is trying to come out ;D (just teasing) We call it feta in English but to us it's just "djath". I think it must be an Epirus thing (where I come from) as Pyrros pointed out. I eat feta cheese with bean soup, mountain tea (also an Eprius thing), plain bread, meat, salad, pretty much anything other than dessert. Most Albanians I know prefer Bulgarian feta (tastes more like ours) as opposed to Greek feta. You're right that the Greek influence is pervasive especially in Southern Albania as we use lots of Greek loan words for food and cooking. Albanians were never known for their cuisine or culture like the Greeks, we were basically warriors and that's what we're known for to this day (of course the modern day name for a warrior is "criminal" ). Also our byrek is closer to the Serbian/Bosnian than the Greek tyropita or it may the Kosovar influence (own most of the byrek shop sin Tirana) of the last 20 years.
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Dec 29, 2010 12:29:56 GMT -5
Post by Patrinos on Dec 29, 2010 12:29:56 GMT -5
vrhnje? can you pronounce this word?? 5 consonants vs 1 vowel!! welcome to the Slavic linguistic universe where the words just roll of the tongue ;D ;D ;D Try this patrino very fast (we would play this as kids, not sure why though) Vrba mrda na vrh brda Vrba mrda na vrh brda Vrba mrda na vrh brda Vrba mrda na vrh brda Vrba mrda na vrh brda Vrba mrda na vrh brda Be careful since it might get your tongue tied up ;D (seriously) play? ;D I remember laughing when hearing Greek sportscasters trying to pronounce the croatian football player Prso... vrhnje? can you pronounce this word?? 5 consonants vs 1 vowel!! 4 consonants, nj is one sound. (you know "Ni" as the peloponeseans pronounce it ) Anyway, there are words with no vowel at all : Trst, Krv, Smrt, etc.. ;D That 'li' and 'n' is an urban myth... only few Patrinoi pronounce it that way, Lemnioi and Chiotes pronounce it always like that....
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