Adriatic North Mission

Okay, my favorite food is the Krofnas. They're donuts and they're full of chocolate usually, or something else, and they're just way good.

Absolutely most important things to have in the Dreadnought mission are blood cream cake found at Lake Bled in Slovenia, cevapi or cevapcici in Slovenia, they're little meat sausages that are wonderful, and then there's pljeskavica or pljeskavica, which are essentially giant hamburger like patties, there's ajvar which is a pepper sauce, it's not spicy at all, it is wonderful, and otherwise there are lots of really small restaurants over there, you don't have much McDonald's, so you find these little nooks and crannies that missionaries have just found over time, and they give you the most wonderful foods over there that are local. Another great sauce to have with your cevapi is kajmak, which is like a cheese sauce.

When I got to Serbia, my favorite thing that they had there is called sarma. And it's crazy it sounds, it's just like rotten cabbage leaves wrapped around meat and beans, or meat and rice I mean, and then it's soaked in the sauce, or like cooks in the sauce for a really long time. So good. You know, oh, potatoes. Potatoes are like a huge deal. Like every meal that I ate there I swear I had potatoes, and they were always prepared very deliciously.

In Slovenia, I loved the fact that it was healthy, you know, they home grew everything. And so we had homemade soups, we had homemade breads, we had homemade like anything you can imagine, very focused on vegetables and fruits, which was, you know, it was new to me just because like being a college student, it was a struggle to find time to prepare vegetables, you know, and so I loved like trying all the new things. I mean, there wasn't really anything weird, or spicy. I actually that was one of when I told Heavenly Father I wanted to serve a mission, I'm like, please don't send me somewhere I have to eat spicy food all the time. Like, I just won't, it won't be kosher. But I loved the Slovenia. It was the Slovene cuisine, you know, it, it was just very healthy, you know, and I enjoyed that a lot.

Like most of the other things in the countries, food is very dependent on where you are. Missionaries typically like the cevapi in Bosnia the best. Bakeries are a little bit better and less expensive in Bosnia and Serbia. Serbia you'll want to get pljeskavica. Croatia and Slovenia has really good kebab, and all of the members can cook very well. A lot of the bakery foods are going to be your best friend and going to be very good, so I'd highly recommend trying out those as much as possible.

There are a lot of really, really, really good foods in the Adriatic North Mission, but some of my favorites were just what in restaurants missionaries had discovered and gone to for a long time. There's always really good gyros and I really loved sarma. If you ever get the chance to try that, it's amazing. I taught a man who fed us sarma and it was so good and I was just, oh, I gained some weight on my mission because of that, but I would just try sarma and then missionaries normally know local restaurants that have really good food.

When I got to Bosnia, there's a few things, key things that if you're there, you have to try, you know, just the sarma and they call it the cevapi. It's just a meat, I don't even know what's in it, never asked, but it's just like there's that and burek, which is a pastry filled with anything really, like there's, there can be a potato burek or like apple burek or meat burek or cheese burek, like there's just like all these different ways to eat the food.