VISITING ROMANIA, ONE CAN PLUNGE, MOUTH WIDE OPEN, INTO A WORLD OF TASTY, SIMPLE FOOD, DELICIOUS MOST OF THE TIMES – THE WORLD OF ROMANIAN COOKING. BUT WHAT IS A GOOD MEAL WITHOUT A ROMANIAN URSUS BEER OR A BOTTLE OF MURFATLAR WINE…
Breakfast and Snacks
- branza cheese
- gem jam
- iaurt yoghurt
- masline (verzi/negre) (green/black) olives
- mezeluri cold meats
- oua eggs
- fierte (moi) (soft) – boiled
- jumari scrambled
- ochiuri fierte in apa poached
- moi soft
- prajite fried
- omleta omelet
- paine bread
- paine prajita toast
- piper pepper
- rosii tomatoes
- salam salami
- sare salt
- slanina si oua bacon and eggs
- sunca si oua ham and eggs
- unt butter
Meat / Carne
- afumat smoked
- antricot entrecote steak
- biftec beefsteak
- bine prajit well done
- cabanos sauseges (long and dry, served fried)
- carne de caprioara venison
- carne de miel lamb
- carne de oaie mutton
- carne de porc mistret wild boar
- carne de porc pork
- carne de vaca beef
- carne de vital veal
- cascaval pane fried breaded cheese
- carnati sausages
- chiftele meatballs
- copt baked
- cotlet chop
- cu putin sange rare
- cu sos in sauce
- ficat liver
- fiert boiled
- fiert inabusit stewed
- filet Chateaubriand tenderloin
- frigarui kebabs
- friptura de… fried/roast…
- friptura de vaca beefsteak
- iepure rabbit
- iepure de camp hare
- in sange very rare
- la gratar barbecued/grilled
- mici/mititei small spicy skinless sausages
- muschi de vaca sirloin steak
- muschi filet fillet steak
- potrivit medium
- prajit fried
- prajit la cuptor roast
- pulpa de miel leg of lamb
- rinichi kidneys
- sarmale in (foi de) varza cabbage leaves with rice and minced meat
- sarmale in (foi de) vita vine leaves stuffed with rice and minced meat
- snitel (pane) schnitzel
- sunca gammon/ham
- tocana/tochitura stew/casserole
- umplut stuffed
Poultry / Pasari
- aripa wing
- curcan turkey
- fazan pheasant
- gaina chicken
- gasca goose
- piept breast
- prepelita quail
- pulpa leg
- rata duck
Fish and Seafood
- afumat smoked
- caviar caviar
- crap carp
- creveti prawns/shrimps
- file fillet
- homar lobster
- icre roe
- icre negre caviar
- la cuptor baked
- langusta crab, lobster
- morun/nisetru sturgeon
- pastrav trout
- prajit fried
- raci crab
- rasol boiled
- saramura de/in saramura in brine
- sardele sardines
- scrumbii kippers
- somon salmon
- stridii oysters
- salau pike
- ton tuna(tunny)
Vegetables/Cereals/Salads
- ardei(grasi) rosii/galbeni/verzi red/yellow/green peppers
- ardei iuti chilli peppers
- brocoli broccoli
- cartofi potatoes
- castravete/castraveti cucumber(s)
- ceapa/cepe onion(s)
- ciuperci mushrooms
- conopida/conopide cauliflower(s)
- dovlecel courgette/zucchini
- fasole verde green beans
- ghiveci stewed vegetables
- linte lentils
- mazare peas
- mamaliga/mamaliguta polenta
- morcovi carrots
- murat pickled
- muraturi pickles
- orez rice
- paste fainoase pasta
- rosie/rosii tomato(es)
- salata asortata mixed salad(usually cucumbers and tomatoes)
- salata verde lettuce
- spanac spinach
- taitei noodles
- ulei de masline olive oil
- usturoi garlic
- varza/verze cabbage(s)
- vinata aubergine/eggplant
Fruits and Desserts
- ananas pineapple
- banana banana
- caise apricots
- capsuni strawberries
- cirese cherries
- clatite pancakes
- coacaze negre blackcurrants
- desert dessert
- fructe(proaspete) (fresh) fruit
- grepfrut grapefruit
- inghetata ice cream
- lamaie lemon
- mandarine tangerines
- mar/mere apple(s)
- para/pere pear(s)
- pepene galben melon
- pepene verde watermelon
- piersic/piersici peach(es)
- placinta flaky pastry pie
- portocala/portocale orange(s)
- prajitura cake/torte
- pruna/prune plum(s)
- struguri grapes
- zmeura raspberries
Herbs and Spices
- arpagic chives
- busuioc basil
- cimbru thyme
- macris watercress
- menta mint
- mustar mustard
- paprica paprika
- patrunjel parsley
- rozmarin rosemary
- salvie sage
- scortisoara cinnamon
- sovarv oregano
Drinks
- cafenea coffee house
- terasa terrace
- cafea coffee
- turceasca Turkish
- neagra black
- cu lapte with milk
- decafeinizata decaffeinated
- ness instant coffee
- zahar sugar
- ceai tea
- cu lamaie with lemon
- ceai din plante herbal tea
- lapte milk
- apa minerala mineral water
- gazoasa sparkling
- negazoasa/plata still
- suc natural fruit juice
- limonada lemonade
- cald(a) hot
- bere beer
- imbuteliata bottled
- romaneasca Romanian
- importata imported
- la halba draught
- bautura nealcoolica soft drink
- cu gheata with ice
- vin wine
- rosu red
- alb white
- roze rose
- sec dry
- dulce sweet
- spumos sparkling
- vin de casa house wine
- pahar glass
- o sticla de… a bottle of…
- jumatate de sticla half bottle
- carafa carafe
- cu/fara apa with/without water
- coniac brandy/cognac
- gin gin
- vodca vodka
- whisky whisky
- rom rum
- apa tonica tonic water
- sifon soda water
- Noroc! Cheers!
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