Servian at Dan and Holly's

Our neighbors and friends, Dan and Holly invited us for a night of Serbian food at their house. Holly's parents are Serbian and Croatian and she knows her stuff. Overall the night was great fun. We laughed like we have not for a long time.

After appetizers, the main portion of the meal started and it did so with a bang: kaimach. Kaimach is a very addictive mix of cream cheese, butter and just enough feta cheese to give it a little salt. You use it as you would butter on bread. We certainly did, devouring nearly two loafs of bread. The Kaimach was served with cranberries, which I will admit not trying. Never been a big fan, but looking at the picture now I regret.

For the entree we had Chicken Paprikash (pictured below). Not sure how long it cooked, but it was falling off the bone. The sauce was succulent and partly responsible for the quick disappearance of the bread. The chicken was accompanied with bell peppers and dumplings, which as we were told, in Serbian cuisine are more consistent (eggy was he word used) than they are in other areas.

Stealing the evening was one of our hosts, whose name I will not butcher (even though this is a food blog ;-), but that we dubbed Einstein because of the obvious resemblance.

Thanks Dan and Holly for the invitation, great conversation and finger-licking culinary trip to the former Yugoslavia.