Most of the best restaurants around here in St.Peter are Georgian, and their food is to me some of the best I have tasted. A dish that is on every menu is Lobio, it's a basically a bean stew with walnuts and coriander, served with Georgian bread either lavash or katchapuri (cheese bread) I have made it a few times at home and love it.
The Georgian's also make some good wines a delicious one is called Isabella after the Isabella grape it's made with, it's become available at our corner shop recently and good value at just over a dollar a bottle. This is sadly the empty bottle we drank last night
Love the name! Isabella would have been the name given to my 5th grandson had she been a girl. Looks like youre having a good time! Sorry, Isabella would have been my daughter's second son's name if he was a girl.
Yes I am Chrissy I feel my life began at 70 or thereabouts, maybe it gets even better at 80, I will keep you updated
@Terry Page, I would love to have a taste of that Lobio. It looked like the sweet potato muffin that I had tasted in one of our trips to the province. Having beans as one of the ingredients, it probably is a snack food. With that cheesebread that looks like a croissant, I'm sure my husband would like that because he is fond of pastries particularly croissant. And he liked it for the reason that croissant is not filling. I'll take a pass on the wine. I prefer soda with that Lobio.
It's the combination of walnuts and coriander (which is called cilantro in some countries), that make it such a tasty dish to me. It can be a lunch on its own or a starter as part of a full dinner. Here is a typical lobio and the lavash bread
Georgian cuisine looks delicious. My repertoire of foods just got bigger now. Sometimes I'll admit I get bored eating just what you know year after year! I like the fact that in Georgian cuisine they use a mixture of beans. Asian cuisine goes great with rice. I like to eat something without rice every now and then. Thanks!
Your Georgian Khatchapuri bread reminds me of our "One-Eyed Jack"…but yours has so much more class lol. No comparison. We butter up a frying pan, tear out a hole from a slice of store-bought loaf bread, break an egg into the hole, salt & pepper it, fry it over-easy, Done. People call it so many different names here…Star Wars Cookbook calls them Sun Toast, then there's Toad in a Hole, Frog in the Pond, Eggs in a Nest, Cartwheels, Egg in a Basket, One-Eyed Egyptian, Rocky Mt. Eggs, Framed Eggs, Goldmine Eggs, GasHouse Eggs, Bulls Eyes, Hocus Pocus Eggs, Egg in a Hat where you place the hole on top of the egg when you're finished. Here it's featured in Moonstruck:
Most of the restaurants serve the Khachupuri as a large round bread full of cheese about 15" diameter, made the mistake of ordering one as a starter once and had no appetite for the main lol