Ep.4: Cooking Vocabulary in Serbian

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Good morning everyone.

Here is Ivana.

Good morning. Here is Yamaki.

Good morning. Today I'm good. How are you?

I drink coffee.

I enjoy. And you?

Yes, I enjoy my coffee.

You used it perfectly.

You said enjoy, which is the imperative way.

Enjoy. Thank you.

So we need some cake next to that.

or something sweet would be nice right yeah i think i would prefer what

would i prefer

like a yeah like a chocolate cake i just love chocolate and coffee i

would just make i would

make a chocolate coffee cake that's what i would do okay good combination i

would love something

with fruits bananas strawberries really coffee and fruit bananas i mean with cakes fruits

go better for me okay uh what about um a rat look would

you would you eat that yeah but i think our

rat look which is your locum i think our rat look is that compared

to locum is just like

plain it's really plain yeah because you have all of these like you have

like a rose water

and then you have nuts and then you have this and that.

Double roasted nuts and fruits and other flavors, vanilla and stuff.

And for us, it's like pour.

Like there's a cube of liquid.

Either pink or yellow.

No more.

That's it. There's a jelly for you.

That's it. That's Suck it.

Yes.

Actually, you know, it's quite sad, but like we sometimes just take like sugar

cubes. and that's it and then you suck on it like yes while drinking

coffee oh so sad anyway we're not

talking about cakes today but we are talking about cooking in serbian exactly we

wanted to give you

some recipes i mean while giving recipes of course lots of vocabulary about uh

cooking styles yeah so i think i need to learn them as well i

just you know from the many i know that like cooked roasted boiled kind

of things yeah which i also don't use now i haven't used it for

a while so i'm

like oh how do you say it but yeah definitely uh oh but you

wrote down what are what are your

favorite meals okay everybody already knows i mean serbian serbian favorite meals

yeah serbian

because it's like serbian cuisine is just a mixture of all the other cuisines

has their its own specific things but a lot of the things are serbian

now yeah yeah so it is it is something

common here in turkey of obviously sarma oh i wrote that too i love

sarma yeah okay i think

it's my favorite meal but my favorite would be prebranac okay second one oh

okay why prebranac

it's so plain you would say like just beans and tomato sauce or in

onion and tomato sauce but so fulfilling and it comes here in a you

know you know clay yeah and you just uh put some uh chili

pepper black pepper something on top and then it's so

tasty you know i didn't write beans but now that i think about it

it's just like such a special

specific way how we make it i just didn't see that anywhere else and

i think in in europe they call this like bean soup but yeah beans

yeah really really soup to me actually prebranas is

just a meal like full of beans to us to us it's not a

soup but that's how they call it yeah like

bean soup but yeah but it's not what else did you have anything else

of course break is another

thing i don't like quite often eat that but from time to time because

you make this in the thing is your uh bread with spinach uh is

great because you don't have cheese in it in turkey you have

mostly cheese a little bit spinach but here it's full of spinach and it's

postno so yeah something

that i can eat vegan version so that's something i really love here and

i discovered months later I did not know about it.

Yeah. So I, for me, Sarba and, and, uh, Burik, uh,

well, I I'll,

I'll do Burik slash Pita because there are different rules about what, what is

depending on the ingredients, why I don't make it or eat it as often what,

is just because I don't know how to make it and i because i

like buric or pita which is made from scratch and i don't and it's

quite tough actually to make it from scratch my mom is obviously really good

at it. You know, she grew up in Bosnia.

They loved anything like pita related.

You know, you do know that in Bosnia, they call burek anything with meat.

So burek sa siro.

Sorry, burek sa meso.

That's burek. Anything else is pita.

So pita is like pita sa siro.

Pita sirnica.

You know, they have like pita sa siro mi sirnica.

and so on so how these things uh so she knows

how to make it really well and i love it i love it i

mean i just love dough i just love it but i don't know how

to make it so here i don't eat it that

much i just buy the rolls from piazza but it's not the same as

them but that's the easiest recipe

you can do and it's quite greasy right that's just what it is that's

the point like it's dough and grease you know i mean like oil and

uh you can easily buy it vegan slash vegetarian personal

right i wrote down another one paprika is it stuffed peppers paprika no no

actually no it's

not uh that's punyene paprika yes that's punyene paprika that's true what is paprika

paprika i think

is hungarian because like goulash is also hungarian paprika so a lot of these

shes sound like ending words are probably um and yeah it must be because

paprika is is it's not bell pepper paprika

is actually no sorry in here there's like paprika the spice paprika i see

you can also add yeah so

it should be uh with potatoes so it's like cooked right it should be

with potatoes and then you can You can add bell peppers if you want.

And that, but the important thing is to add that spice, paprika.

The way I ate it, which is very plain and probably not traditional, but

we loved it because it was literally just like potatoes.

And how do you call them?

Oh, God.

Knödel? Knödle? Knödle?

Knödle, which is these like, oh, my, how do you call them?

What are they?

They are, oh, Knödel is in German.

Like a type of vegetable?

dumplings dumplings okay wow but dumplings they're not

like stuffed dumplings they just make

it out of it's it's literally just uh oh flour and

i think you put eggs in it you don't have to

but it's easier with eggs like i think it was uh i think it's

with a egg yolk if i'm not mistaken and then you can add a

bit of like salt and then you just mix it and a bit of

water whatever and

then it just it's literally just like a dumpling which is it's very soft

and it's just uh potatoes

dumplings yeah and uh yeah my parents didn't make it with bell peppers

but of course i think you

should add bell peppers and you can add some other veggies if you want

and i guess you can also add a bit of meat but it's mostly

just like this like very like cooked watery soupy kind of

thing and i loved it because i love carbs so it's like i love

potatoes i love flour like dough and

i love that uh paprika kind of taste so i'm gonna check it out

here like if i see paprika i will

let you know you probably won't find it vegan but you can make a

vegan version why not okay Right.

So very nice meals.

I'm guessing hungry.

So we

are talking about, by the way, cooking is kuvanie, right?

Kuvanie. Good. So basic verbs to use while sharing recipes.

Do you want to start English-Serbian or Serbian-English?

English-Serbian.

Okay. So we need the ball first.

You put everything in a bowl, right?

which is chinia chinia or you can say posuda as well but

chinia chinia means a bowl like it's not

a pot it's actually just a ball so put is staviti okay

and then something would be nešto i just So,

nešto would be an accusative.

Oh, my God.

Saviti koga šta učiniju u kome...

Oh, I think...

I don't know if it's dative.

But anyway, use učiniju.

Saviti nešto učiniju.

Okay. then you mix those things, those neštos.

so if you mix something to nest is

promesha ti mesha niya was the one

that we talked in the dog's episode

yeah okay mesha ti is like you can also say oh just like

mix the soup

or whatever mix the meal

like just mix the meat I don't know whatever like just

you know but promesha ti means

put like mix everything together

right pro changes the meaning No, promesati

promesha actually means to

it's weird like it's like a finished action like uh mesha mesha means i'm

mixing and promesha is

like can you finish mixing something like that it's just weird kind of thing

yeah okay exactly

promesha anyway if you're making a cake you need to whisk things whisk eggs

for example whisk whatever like uh which would be umutiti umutiti or ulupati

ulupati kind of like it's

more like whip that's like lupati is like yeah that's throw right like no

lupati is like

loop well uh like hit i don't know how to explain yeah hit it

to like it can be actually many things

it can be also like don't like say nonsense that's what I remember yeah,

lupati is actually like

hitting

like

don't hit the door don't slam the door

that's great crying

pržiti

pržiti pržiti

maybe maybe it is maybe it is like because of like you know like

when you put it on top and

it's like right it kind of like imitates right i don't know it sounds

similar at least yeah at

least you're gonna remember it now but i had one i don't know the

translation in english but you might know it uh dinstati and the reason

so i was also thinking what is dinstati and actually

what it is it's we usually

say that for like onions or maybe like mushrooms or something like that and

that means when you

put something on oil and then this thing lets um um oh my god

water out yes so you're basically

kind of like steaming it and and frying it and in the in its

own water you're like cooking it that's dinsdati yeah for mushrooms especially i will

remember yeah yeah of course dinsdati

patchwork and dinsdati look yeah so it will be anything that lets go of

the water the liquid

okay sounds good dinsdati and then boil to boil something uh

you can say skuvati actually which

is to cook um you can say prokuvati as well both are what both

of them have kuvati skuvati yeah because it's like i think cooking in its

essence is like in in something like in some

liquid in some usually that's what it means like if i say kuva no

yellow i always think of something

that's been cooked in the liquid right like in the big pot and so

on but obviously it doesn't

necessarily have to be so but yeah uh-huh sechi you wrote this is a

different ending here yes to cut is seci

and if you want to say I am cutting secem secem or

cim

and secem secem, okay, secem, beli luk

and if you want to say, you know, usually they say

cut the onion, whatever

iseti yeah, iseti and this e again is

again implies the finished action like cut it finish cutting it basically like

you say it's a safety like we can say safety look but it's like

cut like keep cutting the onion but

there's an ending right that you're gonna end so is safety so like finish

cutting the onion and yeah

good and as pro-meshati just mashati is yeah

it's to stir it's like mashati again

to melt the butter or the frozen thing uh top itty uh again

top is like heat topla top like to

heat it up oh yeah yeah yeah yeah top top is hot right so

it's like warm uh it's warm actually so

again top itty but i would say it's top itty it's top itty yes

because it's like finish yeah but just it's gonna end one day right so

it's like it's topi it's topi uh

i don't know like what can you do what can you lead

i don't know yeah maybe most of the time it's is right yeah

so here it's is not s i see stop it is stop it the

other one was e ic which is we just i oh it's just

i okay okay this is like to make it warm and to heat is

also something actually to heat up right it would be to heat up

pot creative pot creative okay

yeah grety is heating like to

grety is no actually grety is make something warm right like to make myself

warm um and then

or grety oh no sorry grety sobu heating heat the room right okay uh

and then pod grety would be mean just like well you just have to

reheat it because it was it was it was kind of like before

you cooked it and it was it was hot right and then i don't

know you put it in the fridge or

whatever and now you just have to reheat it so that for example my

coffee is like there's a coffee

machine and i say uh pot gray pot gray i'm careful like i'm reheating

well if you yeah so so you made the coffee yeah then you drank

it then it got really cold and then you can also put it back

the stove or like in the microwave and you can do that but usually

on

we just we do that for meals

right so we make a big meal and then you know one week put

it in exactly put it in the fridge and

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And like Sece, you wrote Pece.

Sorry, guys. To bake is Pece.

So it implies something in the oven, right?

Pece, yeah. It's always on the menu.

yeah well pecenya yeah yeah that's true peceny peceny pecenya yeah so it should

be exactly

baked for potatoes i think peceny krumpir yes yeah my

favorite yeah okay and to serve after all these

of course i'm gonna have oh don't

worry we are ready already i think if you've been

you you must be a more a bit more than a beginner to learn

this because it's like

there's these differences but yeah um for example i can say uh let me

let me serve you like

for example when they write the recipes they say um cool it

down a little bit and then serve it

right for that after this yeah because

it again it doesn't mean you're a servant and you'll be

doing that forever it just means that do it this one time poslužiti okay

because služiti would imply more like you're a slave you

know like you have an owner for companies they serve you

like yeah yeah exactly yeah in a way i sell yeah

way. Formal to me.

Yeah. Okay. These are some verbs.

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Exactly. Let's give some things, utensils in the kitchen.

We already have chili, yeah?

And I will add pasta.

as well okay just to make sure yeah pod uh there

are two ways to say it or lawn nuts lawn nuts and the difference

is that lawn nuts as far as i know i could be wrong lawn

nuts is a bit bigger and when i say bigger it's usually a bit

like taller and this is for like big like for slava or something like

that or like for big lunches or something so yeah and

they're usually with maybe like steel i think it's steel right stainless steel is

it or like metal i

don't know how you call it because yeah so you have different things for

sherpa but lonets is

like usually this like gray silver thing right um and like very big yeah

okay and i love this word because somehow it's it reminds me of an

animal i don't know a t-gun yeah t-gun pan pan frying pan

yeah and baking tray is it's weird it's

just so we actually they have in germany they say blech so it makes

me think who took it from who but but yeah blech blech okay good

we already know

these three

right? Kashika, noz, viljushka.

Yeah. Kashika, noz, viljushka, spoon, knife, fork.

know this even if you're a beginner.

You should

Yeah. So, and then I had to add this one, which I always

forget in English, ladle, which is a thing for soup, right?

Like this big spoon.

We say kutlacha.

or sipacha

and I think

I say I think my mom says sipacha but I think sipacha makes more

because how do you say to pour sense

it means sipati sipati I say yeah to pour something

pour me some like

I don't know it's not like this

pour me exactly so it would be sipa it's much