Kitchen Day (Is there anything I can't do?)

Yes. I am terribly modest. Thank you.

In my house, we've never cared about traditions much. Well, about certain traditions, surely, but we also disregard the most popular ones - like you have to stuff your face with food on Easter. You have to have all sorts of lamb products in your house and basically toil for four days setting up the Sunday meal. You might be thinking aren't I a wee bit late with this?

But thing is, in Ro, Easter is today, because Ro is an Orthodox country mainly. And since my grandma also holds with this Orthodox tradition, I figured it'd be nice and make some cozonac, which is basically a really troublesome, oversized cake. And one of the main cozonac ingredients is yeast, you know, so that it grows.

Well, let me tell you, I stumbled upon some freakish mutant yeast that just kept growing and growing, eventually becoming this vast dome over the cup I had it in. Then I moved it into another bowl, it grew there as well and outgrew the cup once more. Then I poured it into the cake mix, but there was still a bit left on the bottom of the cup. And I was shocked to find it was still growing in there.

Fucking freaky.

Sadly, I have no photos of the yeast, because I was too busy praying for mercy at the time. Oh well, next time. Anyway, evil or not, it worked wonders on my cozonaci. I ended up with two and a half, even though I'd only ever meant to make two decent-sized ones :)) Enough to serve a small platoon.

And while I'm happy with how they came out, they're really hard work, you have to mix it by hand and to knead it and it's not an actually soft mix, so it really makes you work. So, I spent the better part of yesterday in the kitchen, getting into the Easter spirit for a change. Talk about cardio, man, I swear I'd lost two kilos by the end of it. Which was good, since I then put it right back on when the cozonac was cool enough :))

So, Paste fericit to any Romanian readers. As for the rest of you, how's your weekend going?

Here, it's quiet as a tomb, if you'll pardon the expression since mostly everyone is inside stuffing themselves silly.

Cheers for reading,