For those that don't know, that's the Serbian Orthodox tradition of the ritual celebration and veneration of a family's own patron saint.
(for more detail visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava)
Since I am an atheist, I didn't cross myself during the initial ceremony, but nobody seemed to mind.
In any case it was great food and great people.
Here's the menu:
Entree:
Chicken noodle soup (gf)
Vegetable noodle soup (gf)(vgn)
2nd course:
Meat sarma & punjaje paprika (gf)
Vegetable sarma & punjaje paprika (gf)(vgn)
3rd course:
Pork hock pasulj (gf)
Vegitable pasulj (gf)(vgn)
Main:
Fried cevapcice (gf)
Fried Egg plant and Temphe (gf)(vegan)
Roast vegetables (gf)(vegan)
Desert:
Cheese, spring onion and kale gibanica (vgt)
Cashew, spring onion and kale gibanica (gf?)(vgn)
cakes (gf)(vgn)
(gf) = gluten free
(vgt) = vegetarian
(vgn) = vegan
And he brought in some left-overs for me to take home!
Yum!
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