I remember when we first moved to Slovenia in 1997. I looked at the size of the refrigerator in
my home and thought we would die from starvation. Silly American girl, Slovenian’s do not eat
leftovers like we do and they shop fresh daily for their meals. Typically, each town or village has its own
grocery store, fresh produce market and bakery.
(Ljubljana itself has markets to rival anything I’ve seen on any travel
food show.) Each morning I sent one of
the kids just a couple of hundred yards down the road to the bakery to get us a
fresh loaf of bread for breakfast, which normally consisted of meats (salami,
pâté, chicken bologna), cheese, jams and spun honey. After walking to meet the kids at school, we stopped
at the grocery store to get the “meat du jour” and also stopped at the
vegetable hut to put down a couple of coins on veggies. I did not make enough food for leftovers, and
for the most part never missed them. I’m
not sure the midnight kitchen prowler would agree, but believe me, he was getting
enough food!
Burger-Brat Pita Sandwiches
Today I had
one BBQ burger left and one brat so I decided to make wraps with the
leftovers. I first cut up the meat and
warmed it up in the pan, browning the pieces just a bit. Next, I grabbed whole
wheat pita bread and put the chopped meat pieces on the bread. After that I shredded cheese, Middle Eastern
plain yogurt, chopped red onions, cucumber, chopped green peppers, salt,
pepper, and cayenne pepper. I rolled the
pita and started eating.
Remember how I told you last year I was teaching a young lady just a street away from where you used to live in Dragomer? Well, it has changed quite a bit... The Merkator store is gone (literally, the entire building is not there any more), and the vegi hut is now a florist... Ljubljana is much the same, though. But with the big retail chains like Lidl and Hofer building their shops in smaller town too, much has been changing. Fortunately, the small vegi huts still linger on in most towns.
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