File under: Food, glorious Food!

Filed by: Darren on January 2, 2007 at 9:52
Filed In: Food

EU expansion - great for the taste buds...

Bulgaria. A while ago. Two new countries joined the EU this week: Romania and Bulgaria. Quite apart from all the political debate and economic issues (haven't read up on them, not going to comment on them) there's something to be celebrated in the accession of these two former Eastern Bloc nations to our proud European Community.

As an enthusiastic - if strictly amateur - gourmand I'm more than a little intrigued by the culinary possibilities inherent in the expansion and extension of Europe's national family, as highlighted in this BBC news item.

You know, I reckon a dollop of Lyutenitsa on Mititei would go down a treat...

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Let ~~them~~ us eat cake!

I'm a bit of a failure in the 'living up to the British male stereotye ' stakes. Well, except for the whole 'thoroughly enjoying watching grown men run around a field kicking a spherical object' thing. But still.

The clincher is that I'm actually rather fond of my mother-in-law. It helps that she's probably one of the best proper cooks (in the traditional, stick-to-yer-ribs, 'here have a fifth helping you're looking skinny' sense) in Britain. Seriously, her roast beef dinners are the stuff of legend, I kid ye not.

And every Xmas, she bakes us a proper, traditional Xmas cake. It's dark, sweet, succulent, rich, packed with fruit and booze, reinforced with about a tonne and a half of marzipan and finished with crisp, sharp and pointy royal icing. And totally gluten-free (Jo and I both have a wheat-thing...)

Perfection: