Holidays in Bulgaria

Holidays in Bulgaria

Today is Thanksgiving!!! Bulgarians don’t celebrate this American Holiday, so volunteers are often left to find a way to celebrate themselves. Although I am away from the states I am not too far to celebrate with friends! Volunteers that live close to my town invited my site mate and I to dinner. I just got my stove two days ago so I decided to make my favorite holiday food (i.e. pumpkin pie, dressing with gravy, deviled eggs, and cornbread). This was a huge task to accomplish!!!

First I had to go to the store and find cornbread. I knew that had it in VT because the volunteer that was here before me left a half package full. I went to about two stores on Monday and did not find any. Yesterday, I decided to go to another store after my tutoring session. My language instructor kept asking me if I wanted her to go with me, which was a little annoying because I know how to buy things from the grocery store. Anytime I don’t know the name of an object I either write it down in Bulgarian before I leave my house or describe it to the clerk in Bulgarian words that I know. Anyhow, I found cornbread and everything else that I needed from the local market ALONE.

I started to cook the Pumpkin pie first. Peace Corps has a cookbook for volunteers, which has recipes and shows how to substitute items that are not in Bulgaria. I am so proud of myself. I made the entire Pumpkin pie from scratch! That includes the dough, and the Pumpkin Puree. Secondly I made the cornbread. Cornbread is not that difficult to make so it was a blast. My third task was to make deviled eggs while the cornbread cooked. As the eggs boiled I mixed the second batch of cornbread for the dressing. When the deviled-eggs were done and I put them in the refrigerator. The last item I made was gravy to go with the dressing. If you don’t know, dressing is very similar to bread filling except we use cornbread in the place of bread. This is everything I made for thanksgiving with my fellow Peace Corps Volunteers. I hope they like it!!!! The only problem is that now I have to get the food to my friend’s apartment by train. Its about noon here know, the party is at 6pm!!!! I will let you know how it went.

Thinking of a feasible way to transport food by train with limited Tupperware,

Crystal

P.S. I don’t now if I will be able to take pictures, because something is wrong with my camera! The stupid lens thingy will not go back in. I am so pissed because I have only had the camera for six months!!!! Urggh… Who told me to buy Nikon?!


HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!!