At home we love cheese. Actually, we
absolutely adore cheese! All kinds of cheese – Bulgarian white and yellow,
English mild or mature cheddar, Leicester, Gloucestershire, French Fromage Bleu,
Italian Grana Padano and Peccorino…and so on and so forth. Sometimes when we’re
not really hungry, I just slice 2-3 types of cheese on a plate together with
seasonal fruit – apples, pears, oranges. It makes a wonderfully light dinner,
best enjoyed with white wine or rosé.
Speaking of seasonal fruit, the best aspect
of your parents living in the country and having a house in a village is the opportunity
to enjoy freshly picked, absolutely organic and totally delicious fruit and
vegetables. The last thing I managed to lay my hands on was a bag of pears from
the region of Harmanli, where my parents live. The climate there is quite dry,
which makes it perfect for grapes and pears and other types of fruit which are
supposed to be very sweet.
