Simple improvisation. A friend came, bringing few beers. We drank them and felt a bit hungry. That’s what I scraped from the fridge and boiled in the pot.

Ingredients

25 grams of butter,	2 ltr. cooking pot,	few medium mushrooms,	One medium onion or few green onions,	Some yogurt,	Dozen slices of an old sausage,	ground black pepper, ground red pepper, one tbsp of salt.

Preparation

Put the cooking pot on the hot plate. Put the hot plate to “4” or medium flame if you use gas. Melt the chunk of butter. Clean the mushrooms and peel the onion. Cut the mushrooms and onion in half and slice them. Dice the old sausage remains and put them in the pot, sprinkle the salt and the spices. Cover the pot with it’s lid and let everything steam for 5-10 minutes

Pour in 1 liter of warm water. Cover with the lid. Let it boil for 30 minutes.

Before serving, put a tablespoon of vinegar and a tablespoon of yogurt in every cup.

Someone bring another few rounds please…

Lettuce and cucumber. One of the spring salads that help you kill the spring sickness. It’s stays in the Bulgarian menu until late May.

Ingredients

2-4 tbsp olive oil,	One medium cucumber,	Few cloves of garlic,	One big lettuce,	Cup of yogurt,	Salt

Preparation

Clean the Lettuce from dirt and wash thoroughly with water. Wash the cucumber. Slice everything in 1 cm stripes and distribute in 2 salad bowls. Stir. Put salt. Stir again. Let it rest for 5 minute, the salt will start pulling juices from the vegetables. While this goes on clean and peel the garlic gloves. Use garlic press or sharp knife to shred the garlic to small pieces and put it in one cup with the yogurt and the olive oil. Stir. Pour the mix over the 2 bowls of salad. You are ready.

If you are lazy enough (like me, hehe 😀 ) – Clean the garlic and put it with the yogurt and olive oil in blender and make it to thin sauce for 1-2 minutes.

This one specific salad is suitable for grape spirits like Rakia, Vodka and Brandy. Enjoy.