After last night's post I woke up this morning with this memory: trying to make banitsa last winter in Walla Walla.

I figured I'd whip up a batch. Wow my dAd who's never been to Bulgaria. Great idea.

But it didn't work so great in practice. It turned out to be filo dough and feta cheese with some egg and milk. It was crispy and flaky. Rather uninteresting. There wasn't much bite or flavor to it. Sure I was cooking with American ingredients but really the banitsa was bad.

I am not sure why because I did watch these rather painful youtube videos on making banitsa. This one has <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZh5hQbeh8" target="_blank">a traditional Bulgarian sound track</a>. The second one I watched was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0cQXWKOOs&amp;feature=related" target="_blank">a baba making banitsa in slow motion</a>.  I also watched some college guys on Erasmus ectrying to make banitsa in a dorm room--this was much funnier than helpful

That was exciting.