Boiled Bulgarian Cabbage Stew

Kamila is such a helpful Camel around the house, when she is not playing with here friend, her helping hand is always there and today was no exception.

It is on the borders of winter now in Bulgaria and one of the most favourite of foods in this season, the humble cabbage. Well it may be humble in other countries but here it is the king of food in winter. Kamila had tired cabbage salad before and being a vegetarian Camel had the opinion that this was one of her most favourite foods and that the cabbage salad couldn't be surpassed, until today.

Baba was to make a boiled Bulgarian Cabbage Stew for this lunchtime and evening meal and Kamila was by her side helping out all the way through the process. She watched the ingredients go in one by one and took charge of the supervision throughout the two hour cooking period. She was fascinated by how easy the meal was to make and all the ingredients (all vegetarian) were so simple - Cabbage, tomatoes, onions, red pepper, salt and some sunflower oil was all that was required.

The meal was ready at lunchtime as we all tucked in, it was so sweet and moreish that Kamila gave this meal the mark of her favourite meal of all time and that is some accolade for a food as simple as this.

Her last remarks were, 'This cabbage meal wouldn't taste the same anywhere else!' We all agreed as we had tried it elsewhere and it just fails.

Kamila is learning all the time that the food here is the simplest and the best.

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Sour Grapes

It was a later night last night as Kamila saw the mushroom lights working lighting up the garden. It was like fairyland to Kamila.

Above Kamia's head now in the terrace, there were something special, a natural Bulgarian treasure. She was about to discover the vines which give so much pleasure here.

"Can I try one?" was the cal when Kamila took a closer look.

"They won't taste nice just yet, they need another month before they become sweet and ready to pick and eat." we told here.

That didn't stop Kamila who had already put one in here mouth. Here face screwed up as the grape was bitten into.

"You're right!" she mumbled, "It tastes sour."

"You can try again in September when we pick them to make the wine and rakia you'll love them then."

Kamila was getting used to waiting which goes on a lot in Bulgaria and contently accepted that yo have to wait for the best things in life.

(You can see all about rakia on The Rakia Site)

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Not a Sweet Tooth Camel

It was a hungry Kamila who notice some food on the side. she walked slowly toward the chocolate cakes and sweet rolls sniffing at them. "What does it taste like?" she asked as the sniffing continued.

We said that these were meant to be eaten after our main meal and they taste sweet. We also said that we don't eat this kind of food very often as it makes you fat and rots your teeth with all the fat and sugar inside.

Kamila suddenly stopped sniffing at the food and asked if she cold try some.

We gave here some chocolate cake to try as she start chewing the face changed to a grimace. "I'm glad I'm a camel" she said.

"Why?" we asked with a question mark over our heads.

"We camels don't eat sweet food, and I glad because I'm not fat and have a lovely set of teeth, so I'm glad I'm a camel."

Well we understood what she was saying, what a perceptive camel she is.

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