by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 27, 2013 | Food & recipes
I’ve been on a gluten-free bender for a couple of months now. Not, like, religiously or anything. If I go out to a pizza restaurant, I’m going to eat the pizza, not some lame salad. But, on the whole, I’ve cut down on wheat (mainly bread, pasta and beer). I feel like...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Aug 7, 2012 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
A little while ago I wrote a post comparing our (first ever) veg patch with our (very experienced 64-year-old) neighbour’s veg patch. Needless to say, the comparison wasn’t kind. Svilen’s veg patch is glorious – regimentally organised rows bursting with huge...
by Auntie Bulgaria | May 14, 2012 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
On a break from gardening… Our neighbour’s garden is entirely devoted either to raising animals or growing food. Every inch is maximised and, in a garden the same size as ours, he has sheep, a donkey, chickens, turkeys, and enough vegetables to feed two...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Dec 13, 2011 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
Being in a village (as opposed to the middle of a field) we have actual neighbours. Obviously this is marvellous, especially when they are as lovely and helpful as Svilen and Penka. They are in their sixties and, as their sons no longer live at home, they have...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Nov 8, 2011 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
Okay, so we had a freak snowstorm in October. Yes, October. Thankfully it happened a few days after we got our heating fitted so we stayed nice and warm. Apparently it’s pretty unusual for the temperature to drop so much in October. Although, saying that, we were...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 4, 2011 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
Word must have spread around the village that the English had arrived. On our last evening, a local guy and his son stop by touting for work. The son speaks a bit of English and explains that his dad is a “maestro with wood”. It’s a big old village, a few kilometres...
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