Comments on: Edible Easter http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/ Dispatches from an American in Romania (was Transylvania) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:06:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: C. Ovidiu http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-26921 C. Ovidiu Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:18:50 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-26921 I trust you checked their authorization beforehand this time. Remember Vlady-Prod? :D I trust you checked their authorization beforehand this time. Remember Vlady-Prod? :D

]]> By: Denisa - BLOG my mind http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-26923 Denisa - BLOG my mind Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:40:51 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-26923 <strong>Delicios...</strong> Că tot a fost Paştele şi, probabil, aveţi timp liber, vă sfătuiesc să băgaţi un ochi la Romer!can. ;) Ye shall not know paradise until ye hath tasted of cozonac şi pasca cand it’s fresh.... Delicios…

Că tot a fost Paştele şi, probabil, aveţi timp liber, vă sfătuiesc să băgaţi un ochi la Romer!can. ;)
Ye shall not know paradise until ye hath tasted of cozonac şi pasca cand it’s fresh….

]]> By: Romer!can http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-26924 Romer!can Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:45:30 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-26924 CO - You caught me, bud! I trusted my instincts because the family seemed so endearing. But, you're right, I didn't check the back kitchen. Still, couldn't you have waited until well AFTER I had enjoyed the food? There's still some left... heh. Denisa - Multumesc. CO - You caught me, bud! I trusted my instincts because the family seemed so endearing. But, you’re right, I didn’t check the back kitchen. Still, couldn’t you have waited until well AFTER I had enjoyed the food? There’s still some left… heh.

Denisa - Multumesc.

]]> By: Narc http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-26938 Narc Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:14:35 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-26938 You know, I love how you think. /That is all... You know, I love how you think.

/That is all…

]]> By: Lola http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-26994 Lola Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:20:10 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-26994 Uhm, coconut flakes on pasca is about as traditional as curry marshmallows - but I'm really glad you enjoyed it. Tip (in case nobody tipped you in before): try cozonac dunked briefly in red wine and let me know how you liked it. Or if you were able to stop. :)) Uhm, coconut flakes on pasca is about as traditional as curry marshmallows - but I’m really glad you enjoyed it.

Tip (in case nobody tipped you in before): try cozonac dunked briefly in red wine and let me know how you liked it. Or if you were able to stop. :))

]]> By: strudel http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27081 strudel Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:41:54 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27081 GOT THIS MAIL FOR ROMERICAN - HOPE NOTE A DISGUISED GUY FROM THE EGG-GANG . ------------------- Hi! My name is Paul and I discovered strudell.com like one hour ago. Can you help me to contact ROMERICAN? He posted the articles about Romania. They are really funny and I would like to know him better. Thank you very much. Paul xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx [<em>Sanitized.</em> -R!] GOT THIS MAIL FOR ROMERICAN - HOPE NOTE A DISGUISED GUY FROM THE EGG-GANG .
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Hi!
My name is Paul and I discovered strudell.com like one hour ago.
Can you help me to contact ROMERICAN?

He posted the articles about Romania. They are really funny and I would like to know him better.

Thank you very much.

Paul

xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx

[Sanitized. -R!]

]]> By: Paul http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27119 Paul Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:32:56 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27119 Gee...strudel...I didnt know that you will post my e-mail. I thought that those kind of things are kinda private....my fault. Anyway, what's the EGG-GANG. I'm lost in translation. Gee…strudel…I didnt know that you will post my e-mail. I thought that those kind of things are kinda private….my fault. Anyway, what’s the EGG-GANG. I’m lost in translation.

]]> By: Paul http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27120 Paul Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:35:13 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27120 Hey Romerican! Super funny comments about Romania. I miss the Pasca and the cozonac. I will come back, maybe next time with a wise comment. :D Hey Romerican! Super funny comments about Romania. I miss the Pasca and the cozonac. I will come back, maybe next time with a wise comment. :D

]]> By: strudel http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27200 strudel Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:49:41 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27200 Shy cosy blogger-dolls post their e-mail and invite unknown readers to write them. Tough brave warriors do not want people know their e-mail and use strange nicks in it to confound the secret service. World is getting too complicated . We need lady Auntie to publish an upgraded version of her Handbook of Manners. Apologies. (Gee .. Paul, I didn't know you would scold me here in front of everybody). Shy cosy blogger-dolls post their e-mail and invite unknown readers to write them. Tough brave warriors do not want people know their e-mail and use strange nicks in it to confound the secret service.
World is getting too complicated . We need lady Auntie to publish an upgraded version of her Handbook of Manners. Apologies.

(Gee .. Paul, I didn’t know you would scold me here in front of everybody).

]]> By: mutz http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27206 mutz Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:20:13 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27206 Only for the brave! Try cozonaci cu cirnati! Cozonaci with anything (instead of bread)... Only for the brave!
Try cozonaci cu cirnati!
Cozonaci with anything (instead of bread)…

]]> By: Denisa http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27208 Denisa Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:35:49 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27208 Cozonaci cu cârnaţi? Ouch, where did you get that from? Cozonaci cu cârnaţi? Ouch, where did you get that from?

]]> By: mutz http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27209 mutz Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:42:00 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27209 from Oltenia. Very nice contrast (not every commercial stupid kind of cirnati) I'm talking about cirnati de porc, facuti la casa omului, afumati la afumatoare la foc fara lemne rasinoase... It's fusion gourmet cuisine :) from Oltenia. Very nice contrast (not every commercial stupid kind of cirnati) I’m talking about cirnati de porc, facuti la casa omului, afumati la afumatoare la foc fara lemne rasinoase…
It’s fusion gourmet cuisine :)

]]> By: Romer!can http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27239 Romer!can Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:13:48 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27239 Narc - While rare, I do have my lucid moments. Lola - You haven't heard of the cocos farms along the white sandy beaches of Romania's coastline? I tell you whut, them there coconuts from Dracula Cove have the best flavor this side of the Mississippi. Er, yeah, I guess you caught me there... I was a little tied up in my exhuberance for describing the pasca I wrapped my mitts around, instead of focusing on the fact that Dacian cuisine doesn't feature a lot of coconut flakes. Cozonac with wine? You're evil! I'll think about it. strudel - Thanks for playing sentry against the double agents. Paul - Welcome to the show! Strudel fancies himself something of a court jester, so don't let the jingling of hat bells distract you. There's a roving band of protein lobbing youngsters stalking me because I won't give them an autograph. It'll pass soon. Thanks for the compliment. Buckle in and hang on for the ride. mutz - That is for the brave, indeed. I do not eat pork (my greatest handicap in living here) so carnati is out of the question for me. However, I do know one or two guinea pigs who are likely to be delighted with the danger. Shall I recommend them to use mustar sau fara? Denisa - It does sound painful, in a way. My first thought was a hot dog rolled into a pastry. I wonder if that works with Lola's wine suggestion... Narc - While rare, I do have my lucid moments.

Lola - You haven’t heard of the cocos farms along the white sandy beaches of Romania’s coastline? I tell you whut, them there coconuts from Dracula Cove have the best flavor this side of the Mississippi.

Er, yeah, I guess you caught me there… I was a little tied up in my exhuberance for describing the pasca I wrapped my mitts around, instead of focusing on the fact that Dacian cuisine doesn’t feature a lot of coconut flakes.

Cozonac with wine? You’re evil! I’ll think about it.

strudel - Thanks for playing sentry against the double agents.

Paul - Welcome to the show! Strudel fancies himself something of a court jester, so don’t let the jingling of hat bells distract you. There’s a roving band of protein lobbing youngsters stalking me because I won’t give them an autograph. It’ll pass soon. Thanks for the compliment. Buckle in and hang on for the ride.

mutz - That is for the brave, indeed. I do not eat pork (my greatest handicap in living here) so carnati is out of the question for me. However, I do know one or two guinea pigs who are likely to be delighted with the danger. Shall I recommend them to use mustar sau fara?

Denisa - It does sound painful, in a way. My first thought was a hot dog rolled into a pastry. I wonder if that works with Lola’s wine suggestion…

]]> By: Denisa http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27266 Denisa Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:12:19 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27266 Mutz - Fusion gourmet cuisine? I'd call it extreme cuisine, but if you've tried it and it's OK, enjoy! I am not that brave;) ...Although I have to admit I like to eat cartofi prăjiţi cu... struguri sau portocale. Romer!can - Don't you know what they say here... that the best vegetable is PORK? Just kidding, good for you, it's not healthy. Mutz - Fusion gourmet cuisine? I’d call it extreme cuisine, but if you’ve tried it and it’s OK, enjoy! I am not that brave;)
…Although I have to admit I like to eat cartofi prăjiţi cu… struguri sau portocale.

Romer!can - Don’t you know what they say here… that the best vegetable is PORK? Just kidding, good for you, it’s not healthy.

]]> By: Paul http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27305 Paul Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:25:30 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27305 Talking about "edge" cuisine, coming back from "Piatra Craiului" Mountains, only left sweet crakers and "pate de ficat" (fois gras in french, I dont know in english, sorry) - lot's of cans. I couldn't eat "pate" for one year after that. Talking about “edge” cuisine, coming back from “Piatra Craiului” Mountains, only left sweet crakers and “pate de ficat” (fois gras in french, I dont know in english, sorry) - lot’s of cans. I couldn’t eat “pate” for one year after that.

]]> By: Paul http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27310 Paul Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:29:39 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27310 Strudel, you are always welcome. By the way...what kind of are you? Apple? Blueberry? Pumpkin? Damn I miss home and "cofetaria" across the street and my mother's cakes, the subway system, thiefs on tramcar no.21 and other small things that seemed non important but now they are so far. Strudel, you are always welcome. By the way…what kind of are you? Apple? Blueberry? Pumpkin? Damn I miss home and “cofetaria” across the street and my mother’s cakes, the subway system, thiefs on tramcar no.21 and other small things that seemed non important but now they are so far.

]]> By: mutz http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27320 mutz Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:21:16 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27320 Romerican - no mustard Denisa + other interested: (As seen on TV) Mustard icecream is used in that fusion cuisine. THAT is extreme. Romerican - no mustard
Denisa + other interested: (As seen on TV) Mustard icecream is used in that fusion cuisine. THAT is extreme.

]]> By: Romer!can http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27349 Romer!can Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:42:38 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27349 Denisa - You ever heard of pork soda? Imagine the possibilities. Paul - I should comment on pate sometime. It's definitely a hidden standard of the Romanian diet and I have no idea why. It's sold in dog food tins, looks like dog food, smells like dog food, costs less than dog food... You have my deepest sympathy and utter dismay that one would find himself so hungry as to eat crackers and liver pate. It's unsufferable, I say! Clearly, you must have received this inhumane treatment under Ceausescu (or his PSD legacy, at least). mutz - I'm going to have ask around and see if I understood correctly "afumati la afumatoare la foc fara lemne" because that make me howl with laughter. Denisa - You ever heard of pork soda? Imagine the possibilities.

Paul - I should comment on pate sometime. It’s definitely a hidden standard of the Romanian diet and I have no idea why. It’s sold in dog food tins, looks like dog food, smells like dog food, costs less than dog food…

You have my deepest sympathy and utter dismay that one would find himself so hungry as to eat crackers and liver pate. It’s unsufferable, I say! Clearly, you must have received this inhumane treatment under Ceausescu (or his PSD legacy, at least).

mutz - I’m going to have ask around and see if I understood correctly “afumati la afumatoare la foc fara lemne” because that make me howl with laughter.

]]> By: mutz http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27391 mutz Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:50:07 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27391 lemne rasinoase means wood from coniferous trees. There are two different schools of smoking: one with cold smoke, from sawdust, an another with hot smoke, from pieces of burning wood. In the first case, the smoke house is something like a barrel? well closed. In the second way, the smoking process "e pe vatra" (hearth?)- open fire, and cirnatii are hanged above. For the second school of smoking aforementioned, the resin? from such coniferous wood is a blasphemy! lemne rasinoase means wood from coniferous trees.
There are two different schools of smoking: one with cold smoke, from sawdust, an another with hot smoke, from pieces of burning wood.
In the first case, the smoke house is something like a barrel? well closed.
In the second way, the smoking process “e pe vatra” (hearth?)- open fire, and cirnatii are hanged above.
For the second school of smoking aforementioned, the resin? from such coniferous wood is a blasphemy!

]]> By: Romer!can http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27397 Romer!can Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:13:18 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27397 Hmm, cool details. I'll have to learn more about that for when barbecue time rolls along because clearly there are some universal basics at play. But, you can see why I'd laugh at the idea of smoked ceva in a smoker fire without wood! Hmm, cool details. I’ll have to learn more about that for when barbecue time rolls along because clearly there are some universal basics at play. But, you can see why I’d laugh at the idea of smoked ceva in a smoker fire without wood!

]]> By: Martha http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27433 Martha Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:50:56 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27433 Hi! The cakes looked delicious and made me hungry. Unfortunately, I have to have some blood work and can't eat for a few more hours. I always enjoy reading your blog. Best wishes! Hi! The cakes looked delicious and made me hungry. Unfortunately, I have to have some blood work and can’t eat for a few more hours. I always enjoy reading your blog. Best wishes!

]]> By: mutz http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27470 mutz Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:27:38 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27470 sorry- exprimare neglijenta- Butbutbut you must read until the end of phrase ok. it's your blog. YOU have the last word, yessir. (thinking: what is that? he thinks i use for smoking rubber tires?) (pungas? ) sorry- exprimare neglijenta- Butbutbut you must read until the end of phrase
ok. it’s your blog. YOU have the last word, yessir.

(thinking: what is that? he thinks i use for smoking rubber tires?)
(pungas? )

]]> By: shadowchase http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27652 shadowchase Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:48:51 +0000 http://romerican.com/2007/04/08/edible-easter/#comment-27652 thanks for posting photos of the chocolate jesus....i love art, edible or otherwise...aside from the controversy it seemed well done thanks for posting photos of the chocolate jesus….i love art, edible or otherwise…aside from the controversy it seemed well done

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