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Post by Silly Yak on Feb 16, 2011 10:33:56 GMT
Bulgarian CD information
(from David)
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Ñòðàäàì îò çàáîëÿâàíåòî öüîëàêèÿ, êîåòî îçíà÷àâà, ÷å íå ìîãà äà ïðèåìàì ÿñòèÿ, â êîèòî èìà æèòî, å÷åìèê èëè ðúæ. Àêî ÿì õðàíà, ñúäúðæàùà áðàøíî, íàïðàâåíî îò íÿêîè îò òåçè ïðîäóêòè (ãàëåòà, ãðèñ, ìàêàðîíåíè èçäåëèÿ, ñïàãåòè, ñîåâ ñîñ è ò.í.) ùå ñå ðàçáîëåÿ.
Àêî èçáðàíîòî ÿñòèå ñúäúðæà íÿêîè îò òåçè ïðîäóêòè è òå íå ìîãàò äà áúäàò çàìåíåíè ñ äðóãè, èëè èçêëþ÷åíè îò ðåöåïòàòà çà ïðèãîòîâëåíèå, áèõòå ëè ìè ïðåäëîæèëè äðóãî ÿñòèå?
Áëàãîäàðÿ Âè ìíîãî!
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Translation:
Request for the chef
I suffer from Coeliac Condition which means I cannot eat dishes containing wheat, barley or rye. If I eat food containing flour made from any of these (or breadcrumbs, semolina, pasta, soya sauce etc.) I will be ill.
If the chosen dishes contain any of these ingredients and they cannot be substitued or excluded, could you please recommend another dish?
Thank you very much!
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Post by Silly Yak on Feb 16, 2011 10:34:47 GMT
Bulgaria ...
Posted by Cassie & Frank M on 16/6/2005
GF board
Well, we went to sunny Bulgaria for a week (got back today) We'd printed out loads of dietary cards in Bulgarian explaining about CD and what we could/couldn't eat (it's on the supp board). The first place we ate at was at the Hotel Mistral where we were staying in Nessebur, they took one look at our card, shook their heads (which in Bulgaria could mean yes, by the way) and handed it straight back.
So then we went to another restaurant the following day and asked for some meat on a skewer that Frank knew about when he'd been previously.....they came back with battered calamari!!!!
We're getting a bit wary/weary of it all by this time and stuck to salads with grated cheese on (Shopska Salad)....then by luck in Old Nessebur we found a Bulgarian Coeliac..........what a difference. She (Maria) explained that most Bulgarian food is naturally GF so we went for Bulgarian cuisine big style, replacing garlic bread with garlic potatoes.
Our favourite was a dish called Stomna Kebap, we thought because it was a 'kebab' it would be either a skewer or bread variety but it was a beautifully hot stew with loads of meat and veg cooked in an earthenware pot, the flavours were outstanding. The creme caramels over there seemed to be all gf too, they were very addictive.
All the menus are in Bulgarian (in fact it REALLY helps to learn the Bulgarian alphabet before you go as a lot of the words are the same when deciphered, a lot of the Bulgarian letters look the same as the English version but have a very different sound)German is the second language there and English is a very poor third, very few Bulgarians spoke more than the absolute basic English so it aint easy, the cards (after our first experience) was a godsend.
Nearly all meat and fish out there is grilled over a barby kind of thing and loads of herbs are used but we craved carbs after a couple of days. After the initial first two days it got easier.
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Oh yeah, we took our own bread (obviously) and a toastie maker and bought cheese, tomatoes n onions for delicious toasties in our rooms. There was no kettle, i don't know if that's standard Bulgarian practise (or cos we went economy) but if you aint going self catering then it may be wise to invest in buying a little travel kettle before you go.
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Post by Silly Yak on Feb 16, 2011 10:37:26 GMT
Gluten and wheat free pasta in BG Posted by Cassie M (Bulgaria) on 19/11/2006 GF board It's finally arrived.........and i haven't even started buggin' 'em yet. The Piccadilly stores that have just arrived in Bulgaria supply Gluten and wheat free pasta.............I'm working on the bread and flour side of it but i've nothing to do with the supply of pasta here. Brilliant news for those coming over for a black sea coast holiday next year. The English version is in the top right hand corner. They now do sell Schar B mix but if you're on holiday you probably won't have the facilities to use it. Ready made bread from Schar is sometimes sold at Piccadillys or health food shops in Burgas (rare) www.piccadilly.bg/index.php |
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Post by Silly Yak on Feb 16, 2011 10:39:43 GMT
Well thankfully Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU on Jan 1st 2007 so now we should get some kind of labelling, the only problem with the imported foods over here is they always put the white import label over the ingredients list !!!!
The word for coeliac disease in Bulgarian is tzolakia which is spelled thus: öüîëàêèÿ when printing off BG dietary cards note that i cut and pasted this word in instead of 'coeliac disease written in Latin. which is why we had so many blank looks when we handed ours over the first time we were there.
The word for flour áðàøíî in Bulgarian is pronounced brashno, they do have corn flour here pronounced tzaråvichno brashno or öàðàâè÷íî áðàøíî
and it's to be found in Piccadili's and Metro just off the main Bourgas roundabout from Vetren.
Bez brashno means 'no flour'. spelled âåç âðàøíî
sus brashno means 'with flour' and spelled ñúñ âðàøíî so if you hear it, don't eat it.
Soya flour can also be found here and it's called coevo brashno or ñîåâî áðàøíî. This can be found in the bigger supermarkets in Bourgas.
They do a great GF national dish served at nearly every restaurant called kavarma, the pork one is to die for, also the shashlick kebabs here are fresh meat and vegetables on a skewer, no flour either.
Chips/fries out here are pronounced perjenny kartoffee and they do a great goats/sheeps cheese to go on top at almost every restaurant/cafe, with chees is sus sirenny so if you get stuck you can always have the cheesy chips and a shopska salad. so:
"perjenny kartoffee sus sirenny i shopska saladi" will get you by if you're not by the black sea coast where at least one member of staff should speak reasonably good English these days.
Other info
pile (pronounced peelay) is chicken
svinska is pork
beef is teleshko
patitza is duck
molya is please and merci is thank you. It DOES make a difference. Hurry up out here, it's hot and sunny and the food here is fabulous.
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Post by Silly Yak on Feb 16, 2011 10:41:19 GMT
Re: Sofia, Bulgaria
Posted by Cassie M (Bulgaria) on 27/5/2007
Basically, you're safe with the following:
Shopska salad (obviously). If you are dairy intolerant ask for no cheese (bez sireni).
Kavarma either Chicken (pileshka) or Pork (svinska), they don't do beef much but a lot of veal which i totally disagree with but that's another story.
Shashlik kebaps which is meat and veg on a skewer.
Dropcheta po celski which is liver and onions basically 'village style' and is superb.
Pipir i kertuk is peppers and a kind of cottage cheese and is very filling too.
Very little English is spoken out there and they appreciate the effort being made to speak their own language as they are starting to feel (naturally) threatened by the amount of Brits out there who just come for the cheap beer/fags/properties and expect everyone to speaka da English!!!
The word for flour is brashno with a sh sound
The word for without is 'bez'.
Piccadillys big supermarkets are good for buying all kinds of stuff including gluten free pasta and so are Metro but if you haven't got a Metro card you won't be able to buy anything......
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