eating in Slovenia

We woke up to rain this morning. The kids thought it was great. So did I. It meant we could have a morning of hanging out and relaxing. If you know anything about the way we travel, you will know exactly what I'm talking about. I won't name names but some of us can't just sit still for very long. After the rain stopped around 11am we headed out to check out the city. It is another old world city full of very beautiful buildings, castles and markets. It is Saturday today and that means markets are huge. We went from vegi stgand to vegi stand buying green and yellow beans, fresh baby carrots, potatoes, peppers, tomotoes, celantro, honey and also some fresh chicken breasts. Then back to our hostel to cook up the best lunch ever. We cut up the chicken, fryed it with fresh morel mushrooms. Boiled the potatoes, beans and carrots and Mmmm mmmm it was fabulous. I have been so hungry for fresh vegis, this was exactly what we all needed. After lunch we spent the afternoon walking around finding cool buildings and churches to explore. It was very relaxing. At 4 it started to rain again, just in time. So we headed back to the Alibi hostel and took showers and planned our next few days and started making supper. Of course we brought along our trusty bottle of epicure guacamoli mix. So we had nachos with fresh salsa and guacamoli.We tryed a Slovenian local wine called Quercus Modri Pinot (very nice). For desert we had a traditional cake from the market. It is called prekmurska gibanica. It is a layered cake with 8 layers of filling and filo dough. A layer of poppy seed filling is placed on a buttered cake dough followed by more filo dough on top of which cottage cheese, walnut and apple fillings are put, followed by another four layers of the same filling in the same order. The top layer is filo that gets iced with icing sugar after the cake has been baked. It tasted like a combination of baklava and apple pie. Not bad.
Tomorrow we leave for another part of Slovenia that is closer to the coast. We will spend a few days touring some caves and we have a huge surprise for Miranda. We had no idea that the Lipizaner stalions are bred, raised and trained in Slovenia. Well we decided to go to see them. We hope to do that in the next few days. So don't tell her.