Even if for me Easter is more or less some free days off, I can't say the same thing about my parents, they really overdid themselves this year, without expecting any guests, preparing a lot of food for the Holidays.
Starting out with a lot of meat, a combination of chicken, pork and beef; all of it splashed with wine and condimented with salt, pepper, some paprika, garlic and others and left overnight in a cold place to really absorb the condiments. Some of it will be made in the oven, and some will be grilled later.
Next we have a lot of dough, for what is I think more specific to Balkan area, the "cozonac" or at least this is how it's written in romanian.
The "cozonac" and "pasca" are really a tradition in Romanian culture, especially for Easter, the original recipe contains nuts and Turkish rahat, which you can translate in english as crap, but that's just a funny coincidence.
From the same dough we also made "pasca", the one round shape that's more or less a cheese pie.
Next we have "piftie" or "racitura" which is made using natural gelatin, by that I mean we really use the fatness from pork meat, boiling the meat and bones, butting the meat in small pieces and adding condiments to the resulted soup, leaving it in the fridge for at least 12 hours until it's getting sort of solid.
Next we have the "beouf" salad, which I think is a French recipe at its origins, but really modified to be in Eastern Europe standards, decorated with pickles and some greens.
And in the end we have the red eggs, highly decorated using leafs and paint.
Romania is a heavily religious influenced country, with a majority of Christians, this makes the holidays to be something carefully prepared, even if just the family is present. This involves a lot of work from every family member, but I think it's worth it as the next days will be just quality time with the family.
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