"Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula tells the story of Vlad Dracula, the historical figure who gave Bram Stoker's Dracula his name. Vlad is a dispossessed noble, and a patriot who fights the occupation forces of the Turks hoping to avenge the murder of his father by Romanian nobles and the capture of his brother by the Ottoman sultan."
...So we got to make Romanian food. Big shout out to Emily that remembered the name of the 'meatcicles' we loved so much at a party hosted by a romanian friend: Mititei, or Mici (prounounced like 'meetch'). They're a popular grilled Romanian sausage, often served with mustard and beer.
Mititei (very much not for beginners)
What We Used:
- 1 lb. pork tenderloin
- 1 lb. beef
- 1/2 cup of beef stock
- 2 slices of bread
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp ground cumin
- 1/8 tsp thyme
- 1 clove of elephant garlic
- salt and pepper to taste
- The Food Processor: This thing got a workout, so I thought it might be good to list.
Note that this really isn't the traditional method of creating them... We did the best we could...
Sam started by cutting up the tenderloin and we loaded it into the bowl of the processor where it was mulched down and set aside. The same thing was done with the beef (we had a couple nice steaks that went in.) then in batches, we put the ground pork in with the beef and a bit of bread. until the pork, bread and beef were kind of a paste.
Again in batches we added pieces of the garlic and mulched again. By this point the processor was complaining loudly. I mixed it a bit with my hands and set it aside.
Sam, meanwhile, was dissolving the baking soda in the beef stock and mixing in the herbs, pepper and salt. We added the liquid to the meat and kneaded until all it was doing was sticking to Sam's hands.
The entire thing was covered with a towel and put in the fridge. It's recommended that you keep it there overnight, but we had about seven hours.
Since there was a lack of sweet things, while I was out Sam decided to make Paximade, which is a greek sweet bread/cake thing.
Paximade (beginner)
What We Used:
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon anise seed
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 white sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
I sifted together the flour, baking powder and salt, then stirred in the anise seed. In a separate large bowl, I creamed the sugar and the butter, then added the eggs in one at a time. After that, I added the flour mix and milk alternately into the large bowl with the butter mixture and beat everything together till it was incorporated.
Since I have no loaf pan, I opted to use mini-loafs!! I greased the pan and spooned the batter in, then baked it at 350 for about 35-40 minutes. If in doubt, poke the bread with a toothpick to see if it's done. Let it cool in the pan for about ten minutes, then put it on a cooling rack. It's best warm with butter and is great for breakfast!
anyway... this post is ridiculously late (due to me having pictures, then not uploading them, then discovering that the sd card had been in the computer the entire time and I didn't actually have pictures in the first place...) so here you go... we'll get back to a more regular schedule pretty quick here.
-Jess and Sam
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