Macedonian festival.

Macedonian festival. This year I just got the snausages instead of the every kind of meat ever made and cooked over a spit and also the stuffed cabbage and that other yummy stuff dinner. All of which tastes really good. However, that allowed me to save room for all the pastries. This includes things with fig, strudels, a Russian Hat cake/cookie thing (which I bit just so you could see all the layers of goodieness), various tortes, and those peach cookies.

I dig the peach cookies. Research says variants are served in parts of Italy, Croatia, Macedonia, and probably some other places in the general vicinity of the former Yugoslavia. I like the ones filled with jam, esp. peach or apricot jam. They are serious work, what with the baking and scooping and filling and putting them together and then coloring and sugaring them. Also, taste dee-licious. These are pretty big, too, not tiny bite sized.

Picture of the inside of the church. The outside doesn't, but the inside looks like a tiny old world wooden church with the painted screen and the lights and the icons and whatnot.

NB: It is a thing around here that the communities that make cevapi and its variants serve them with mustard and chopped up onion on some kind of local white roll or hamburger/hot dog bun. I can live with the inauthentic bread, but where's my ajvar? I really like that stuff. Sadly, no luck.