Food!

Ahhh food---especially rich, heavy food with vegetables serving as a minor side condiment--Serbia has good food.  Today we began the day with Palacinka--which are very simple crepes and are apparently sold at little stands everywhere.  Mix 1 egg with 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of flour--heat a pan add a little oil and pour in about 1/4 c of batter and fry.  Serve with jam and powdered sugar.  A little bland for my taste, but a perfectly good start to the day.  For dinner I made a traditional pork and hamburger patty made with some red pepper and paprika, a tomato and cucumber salad, a pastry with a whole lot of butter and feta cheese and then some traditional Christmas bread.  Obviously Serbs aren't going to eat their special Christmas bread with any old meal, but in the interest of experiencing as much of Serbia as possible--I made the bread.  It's a sweet bread made with butter, milk and sugar and my goodness did it rise! I'll try and post the receipe tomorrow--it made two huge loaves--and that's after I set aside some of the dough to make a braid to go around the bread.  Serbs bake a coin inside the cake and whoever finds it gets good luck.  I wrapped a quarter in tinfoil for our bread but none of us have gotten lucky yet.