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 Miloš mixing ajvar by Aurorae
DAY #1
- Buy fine, juicy red paprika and grill them
- Peel off the skin and remove the seed from inside
- Ground them in a machine
- Add salt and hot peppers according to the taste. If you want to put hot peppers, just ground them as well and mix into red paprika mixture. But be attentive with amounts of hot! :))
- Add 1 litre of oil at every 50kg of bought paprika (so, if you are not so ambitious, and you buy only 10 kg, add 2 dl of oil)
- Mix constantly on a veeeeeeery light, easy fire so it simmers, for 3 hours (!!!)
- Increase the fire, and mix for another 1/2h on a more powerful fire until the water evaporates and you get a dense mass, like mayonnaise
- Cover with paper, not nylon, some paper that is thin and can let the air through. Like wrap paper at the market where they sell flowers, simple white one that you can buy in the big roll. Cover with it, so it can stay overnight and "breathe"
DAY #2
- At measure of 50kg bought paprika, add 2 table spoons (or 1/2 of small coffee cup) of essencia (I'm not sure how to write it in English, that is a CONCENTRATED vinegar acid)
- Mix thoroughly
- Pour into clean, dry jars
- On the top pour melted fat (for instance, pork fat). After you'll open the jar to eat the ajvar, you will remove the fat, naturally. :) The purpose of fat is to preserve ajvar.
- Store.
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And that is ALL! :)))
Some people also mix tomato and that long, big, violet (purple) vegetable resembling zucchini, I forgot the name (aubergine maybe?), but I like plain, only red juicy, fleshy paprika! :))
You can perhaps try with even 5kg, just to see how it goes... :))
GOOD LUCK!!! And bon apetit! :))
On the photo you can see my brother mixing ajvar in the huge pot specialized only for that, and studying in the meantime!!!
TIP: Cover everything around (including yourself!) with newspaper if you're cooking in the house because it is going to "spit" red spots! Leave a Comment
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Jelena by Aurorae
People often throw them money from the balconies and windows, or sweets.
Usually they are invited to play on weddings and celebrations (birthdays for example).
Every year there is a "sabor" (meeting, reunion) of trumpet players in Guča, a village in central Serbia, that lasts for several days and there is a lot of food and drink, feasts all day long, lots of music, and at the end they elect the best trumpet musician. Of course, not only Gypsies participate, but often Gypsies are the best in that. Leave a Comment
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 Serbia&Montenegro by Jelena by Aurorae
There are many Easter customs, the main ones are to go to church at midnight and bring coloured eggs (they were dyed on Good Friday in RED, although recently many started using different colours and colourful stickers).
Easter fasting end on the Easter day, it is broken by cracking eggs and eating them. The one who doesn't have his egg cracked when they are knocked one against the another, is a winner! There is even an egg-knocing world championship in a small place in norhtern Serbia! :)
It is also a custom to light the candle on that day in the house... Leave a Comment
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 a jar of ajvar by Aurorae
it is a legendary tradition of every woman who holds to her domestic dignity :) to prepare ajvar every autumn. People go in masses to big open markets buying dozens and hundreds of kilos of red paprika. Then they grill them in their yards, and you can smell grilled paprika all over Serbia (since this is a page dedicated to my country :)) in October. Even here in Belgrade, with concrete and skyscrapers people go down to yards and grill paprika. Hilarious!
The taste is UNIQUE! And if you want to try it yourself, and if you are a huge cooking enthusiast, here is how to prepare it:
It takes 2-3 days (depends how much paprika you have). So, get ready to dedicate entire weekend to ajvar.
This is how a jar of finished ajvar looks like, from my mother's expertise (and our help along the way!)
(since the text is too long and won't fit into one tip, I moved the recipe itself to the second tip!) Leave a Comment
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 Serbia by Jelena by AuroraeLeave a Comment
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 pasulj cooking by Jelena by Aurorae
Many people often make jokes about pasulj and laugh at it as it's considered the food of the poor, but it's actually very very tasty!
Here is a photo of home made pasulj at camping by the Ibar river. Leave a Comment
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 by Prasnjavi
After that, one of the graffiti was:
“If it is invisible for you, we’ll send you the picture”..
In fact, it started even before aggression. One of graffiti was:
“Will you bombard or I can paint my walls”. Leave a Comment
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 Ivo Andric by vesna04
Ivo Andric got the Nobel Price for the literature 1961. His works are translated and published in the most of the main world languages. I am very proud of that fact. We are very small country. To have a genious that is born in big nation is expected, statisticly it is a bigger chance, but in such small country it make it more special. Leave a Comment
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 Nikola Tesla by vesna04
Is it nice to have electricity? The answer is positive of course. Well, everybody not only Serbs have to give a credit to Nikola Tesla. He invented many other things too. What about wireless communication, radio, fluorescent lights, and more than 700 other patents. To be honest his genious had a financial support in USA, so we have to share the pride with americans.Serbian inteligence and american money...hahaha, no comment on this. Leave a Comment
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 Vuk Karadzic by vesna04
Everry Serb has to be tankful to this man. He was genious. Thanks to him, writing and reading Serbian is piece of cake.
His writing reform has brought to the ideal system where one sound is represented by only one letter, and one letter represents only one sound which means: write as you talk and read as it is written. I neded about 2 minutes to learn my foreign friends to read :))
Honestly I did, piece of cake, I told you ! Leave a Comment
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