Talk:Romanian Cuisine/@comment-72.165.53.34-20100303000040/@comment-84.42.201.47-20100916154217

hey Ron, I know all about pastrama or I wouldn't call myself a Romanian

So here it goes:

PASTRÁMĂ, păstrămuri, Noun s/pl. is mainly the meat from: sheep/goat/pig/goose, that is mutton/goat meat/pork/any poultry meat (most usually will be mutton/lamb meat), which has to be salted, smoked, dried, and strongly seasoned (pepper, paprika,thyme, pressed garlic, 1/2 cup of white wine. Can be either dried in the sun, but most usually marinated like this for a week before actually grilling it or anything else.(eg. baking, chopped and added to pizza, etc.)

Just as English has so many phrases, Romanian does too, Latin rooted it is a wonderful language spoken by wonderful people if I can say so myself.

So actually PASTRAMA is the name of thus prepared meet, but you can encounter the word in many collocation such as:

A tine la pastrama(keep someone in 'pastrama'), meaning keeping somebody in jail; or, a pune la pastrama( set it to 'pastrama', more or less), meaning kill somebody; or, a se face pastrama (even harder to translate, to transform into 'pastrama'), meaning lose a lot of weight...

So this is only to give you a glimpse, and it was a little researched by myself and taken straight out of the Dictionary.

Cheers!