Ethno Cooking in Sumrakovac

This August I visited my friend Gaga. She is a fellow blogger, a great friend and I love her so much!

Last year we made Čomlek together and this time she took me to her parent's house in village Sumrakovac. Together with her mother Bine, we made one of the best dinners of my life!

Kačamak

Kačamak was one of the main poor people food in the old days. Today, it is made by cooking polenta and later adding yogurt or milk. Gaga's mom Bine showed me how it was made in the past, using tools that were used in their family for many generations. This version is made with white corn flour and substitutes bread.

The tools are called čurkalo and kačamalo.

Like all the old Serbian recipes this is also prepared on a wooden stove. Start with boiling water. Then add white corn flour and start stirring using čurkalo.

If needed, add more flour to thicken it. When it is half way done and thicker you will need to use kačamalo for stirring.

And this is how the cooked kačamak looks like. When it's done it is transfered onto a wooden board called lopar.

Liver in Pleura

Liver in pleura (Džigerica u skrami) is another old Serbian recipe. It is made by mincing pork liver and other offal, all wrapped in pleura. Might sound disgusting but it's delicious actually.

There is a complete recipe on Gaga's blog.

Bine's Bread

There is something about bread baked in a wooden stove that makes it so much better than baked in the electric oven...

Plain bread dough with yeast, flour and water...

First, it is baked on top of the stove. When almost done, it is transfered into the oven.

Bine also made Serbian Gibanica, phyllo pie with cheese filling.

And Gaga and me cooked my goulash with venison :)

Epic!

Note: Kačamak je moja ulaznica za Ajme' koliko nas je. Domaćica je Mihaela.