Before we had arrived in Bulgaria we had to discuss what we are going to prepare for cultural evenings. It was a hard task. All the things we though to make were not really good best before date, so we couldn't bring all those ingredients. And actually we couldn't make consensus, Estonian foods are not the tastiest one and we didn't want to shock foreigners with those flavours. Then we decided to bring snacks and sweets with us. I bought 1 kg Kalev candies and 900 g chocolate with me. Anna bought dried fishes and other sweet and salty snacks, so did Heleri. We tryed really hard to figure out what we should prepare for this evening. We even googled Estonian national food 😆 We understood that our cooking habits in Estonia is not really related with our national dishes. At least I don't eat Estonian foods at home. If you have no how idea how to cook for 30 people it makes everything much more complicated. Plus the fact that it is impossible to find right ingredients from Bulgarian trade. At least we decided to let main dish cooking for Turkish ladies and make a dessert. Our plan was to make Estonian food day.
In the morning we made "kama". In the afternoon we offered Estonian candies, chocolate and different types black bread. Probably we offered it in the evening as well, or only in the evening with the garlic sauce. I can't remember really well anymore. And finally in the evening we offered our cake and Vana Tallinn liqueur that Anna brought from Estonia. Rashed already has tasted it because Estonians always try to promote it. I am happy that even Antonio who doesen't drink alcohol tryed it. I am also glad that cake tasted well even though difficulties we had making it. I have no idea how it is possible that but in Bulgaria they not sell normal cookies. All cookies are weird. It's always problem when you travel away from Baltics. You don't have Kalev or Selga in the stores. I am not even going to talk about milk products. They are all different from our ones. But it was deffinately our fault that we shouldn't make ourself clear in Estonia that we want to prepare cookie cake and buy cookies from there. We spent hours in the kitchen to make that cake Estonian music playing in the backround. I was really done after being in the kitchen, I was so tired that fell asleep and when Heleri and Anna tryed to wake me up to decorate the cake I still didn't want to enter in the kitchen. I continued my power nap and woke up before the dinner. It was rude to let others finish the cake? Maybe but I am not the best cook and I better let others deal with that. It was such a relief when our cultural evening was over. Almost all other countries had already had their evenings. It put us even more pressure on but at the end the most important thing is that we did it. I really liked Turkish food and thanks to our cooks we had an opportunity to eat this kind of food more times. Interesting was Armenian evening. I love those stuffed grape leaves and quiz about Armenian architecture. We tryed so hard with Anna to remember all those names. Fortunately it payed off and Anna won. Wohoooo. What to say about Italian evening? We all know the story that you can't find right ingredients from Bulgarian shops. Well, yes it might be true but this excuse doesn't make food tastier. But everything wasn't so bad, tiramisu tasted good. Sangria made Spanish night perfect 😙 Seher can make miracles in the kitchen. It was nice that she helped Ana with Romanian foods. I didn't take any photos of cultural evenings. But I still have one culinary photo 😂
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