On Tuesday, some of the students in my Beginner English class had a Christmas Eve potluck. I brought Christmas cookies. They brought peppers stuffed with beans, several types of philo dough pastries (with pumpkin, walnut, candy[above pic]), traditional bread rolls, sweets, and wine. It was lovely. One of the girls in the class wrote out fortunes for the New Year, such as: you will go on an adventure, you will get a new computer. These were then rolled around tooth picks and placed in the top of the pastries. My fortune was to receive a sandwich… Another tradition included in the celebration was that of hiding a coin in the bread. Sort of like what we do in Louisiana with the baby in the King cakes, but instead of a plastic baby you receive money.
Traditional Budni Vecher food includes: grape leaves stuffed with rice and walnuts, dried fruit, banitsa, bean stuffed peppers, pumpkin, and soda bread. There is always an odd number of dishes served and never any meat or animal products…this potluck was perhaps the only vegan meal I’ve had in Bulgaria.
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