We either buy a pastry or buy breakfast stuff from the grocery store for the mornings. Our favorite patisserie here is called Petru. It's less than a block away from my apartment and on the way to about everywhere we go. In Romania they make these things called covrigis (pronounced cove-rigs) that are so good! They are ring shaped soft pretzels filled with almost anything you want- chocolate, cherry, sweet cheese, ham and cheese, vanilla, etc... My favorite pastries that I've had here are called Kürtőskalács. They are originally Polish, but they are popular in Romania in the Winter. Basically they are a sweet dough that gets wrapped around a spit and cooked over coals. They get covered in cinnamon, coconut, sugar, caramel, and lots of other things.
 |
| Kürtőskalács |
Lunch and dinner are a combination of potatoes, chicken, and cabbage. I actually really like the cabbage that they prepare for us, it's seasoned with vinegar. The potatoes are either mashed, cubes, or french fried. Recently the caterers have been bringing us more variety than we had at the beginning of our trip, so we've been eating pork, omelets, and ground beef. We get pizza at least once a week, which is awesome because the caterers are from Italy. Occasionally we get more traditional foods like sarmale and mămăligă. Sarmale is ground pork, vegetables and seasonings wrapped in pickled cabbage or grape leaves and mămăligă is cooked cornmeal.
 |
| Sarmale and mamaliga from a restaurant in Brasov |
