Every Christmas Day, we eat something we’ve never eaten before. This year it was Sarmales, a traditional Romanian dish, of rolled fermented cabbage leaves, stuffed with a pork/millet/veg mix and cooked in stock and fermentation juice.
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The rolls were delicious. The pork was local, from @lavalledelsasso, I fermented the whole cabbage late November (video on my IGTV) and the cooking juice was half duck stock and half sauerkraut juice. We ate them a top Italian sorghum also cooked in duck stock.
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Thank you @irina.r.georgescu for bringing this and much more about Romanian cuisine to life in my imagination.