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!!! OMG!! GUYS! I can't believe it but I've found that one baklava that has been haunting me ever since I had my first bite in Plovdiv, Bulgaria!!! Yes, it's past 3 am and yes, I been online looking at recipes for hours and yes, this is what I do with my free time because I have no life. But! I've found it.....I'm close to deliriously happy right now.....mostly due to the fact that I've been staring at the screen and various recipes in various languages for the last 3 ++ hours or so and I probably need to sleep soon. I'm also really really REALLY hungry at this moment too.....

It all started with Jamille and exchanging baklava stories (among other things) the other day. We plan to meet up sometime next week to make some since we both can't deal with a full tray of it (well, we could but I'ma thinking the sugar overload would kill us ded). But it's all her fault that I resumed my search for that elusive little slice of heaven that particular baklava is to my stomach. Now, I finally have a name - it's apparently a sarma baklava where sarma means rolled and it's basically a thin sheet or two of phyllo dough, brushed with butter and stuffed with pistachios (no yucky walnuts for me - seriously, the reg walnut baklava is great and all but a pure pistachio baklava is GOLD! if you can't tell, i have an ongoing love affair with pistachios....mmmmmm...) and rolled up into a pistachio-phyllo log of luuurrv. Man, I am making myself soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hungry.

urm....okay, i'ma gonna go sleep now. i'm not sure why I had to excitedly declare my love for baklava at 3.45 in the morning but I just can't help it.....i have a sweet tooth a mile wide. this is also bringing back my eastern european/balkan food cravings like nobody's business