The playroom at the gym where I drop little Z has a couple of girls from Bulgaria Bosnia and Yugoslavia that call me the “cooker man” in a loud and thick accented voice when I walk in the door. That is almost always followed with “what are you cooking tonight cooker man?”. So I respond with my normal “I don’t know yet” but one time I returned the question and asked what they were cooking. The one said “Banica!” (pronounced Ba*ni*tsa). After making her spell it and write it out I googled it, I showed her an image and she said “yes, that’s it!”. Looking into it I noticed it was just like a tiropita and we love those around this house, but instead of being in a little triangle shape it was in this cool spiral tube, nice. This was as great! The ingredients are very flexible/forgiving/adaptable. Add spices, mixed cheeses, whatever. Key are the ones I mention below.

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