Village activities
It's a tradition that in early autumn families gather provisions that will see them through the cold season.
Spring and summer are great for growing vegetables in lower Transylvania; however, during autumn and winter, nothing grows while in some mountainous regions only potatoes grow. We will join a family and cook zacusca, a vegetable spread that you will fall in love with, made from eggplant, pepper, tomato, onion and depending on taste, perhaps also mushrooms or beans. Pickles can be considered a cuisine of their own as almost all vegetables are pickled, even some fruits like watermelon. We will pick the vegetable fresh from the garden and turn them into delicious provisions for winter. Besides zacusca and pickles, there are also gems and compotes we can make from plum, quince, berries, and apple. We can spend from one afternoon to a whole week preparing this, the more we do, the more ready we will be for winter.
