13-VII-2019.
The annual meeting of rasejani, this time in some other village, at the parents' house of one of the guys. It took us some time to get packed into the van, and didn't quite hit the road we wanted through Kikinda, but we got there just about 20 minutes after the others, not too bad. The freshly repaired alternator in the van still didn't make that funny signal light go away, so I was testing different speeds when it would perhaps try to stay off.
So let's see - pretty much the standard set, Škrba with his wife, Zlotvor with his wife (same name, but much nicer), Stinge alone (but much more open for talking and fun than usual, something changed), pLazić of course, he sets the date by timing his vacation, Magi (wider than ever, legs don't hold him for longer than a dozen minutes, has to sit), the host with wife and sister, and inevitable ajVar. Apropose the diameter, she said I was „the fattest among the thin, thinnest among the fat“, ie. only Stinge and ajVar are thinner than me... um, scratch that, looking at pictures again, ajVar has a finger or two on me. In diameter.
I brought a liter of cherry. Stinge said „something wrong here... where's the color? Shouldn't it be roze?“ „That's the point, this is not the usual generic brandy with sour cherries added afterwards for taste and color, this is the distilled cherry, crop 2015/16“.
The usual gulaš was cooked - again, Kunta's recipe took four hours to cook. The works - onion, beef, pork, chicken in equal amounts, each layer being simmered for 45 minutes before the next one is added. And then some more, for spice to permeat it. Give or take, four hours.
The kids hung loose all over the yard, and got even more worked up when the rain started. Everybody enjoyed watching them, and specially the scene when Raja squeezed a towelfull of water over Sanda's head (she was delighted) and then went to soak it again for Linda. Eh, why didn't we have such freedom when we were kids... said someone.
Too bad we didn't bring any fly-swatters. Could have beaten the world record.
Switching from 9 to 12 liters of milk, weekly. Turned out we'd run out on a weekend. Perhaps the popularity of pancakes helped.
Mentions: 01-II-2021., Dragojlo Kuntić (Kunta), Gradivoj Škrbić (Škrba), Linda Sredljevich Aquilla (Linda), pLazić, rasejani, Ryu (Raja), Sanda Sredljević Aquilla (Sanda), Stinge, in serbian