Along Eldorado Parkway just east of US 75 sits a small, quaint bakery and deli run by husband and wife Ogi and Dora Stoyanov. The Stoyanov's opened Ogi’s European Bakery & Deli in McKinney on Feb. 26 and have years of experience cooking, baking and making sausage. “We are professionals,” Ogi said. “I’m the sausage maker with 35 years experience. Dora is [the] baker.” Born and raised in Bulgaria, Ogi and Dora moved to McKinney in May 2016 after living in Odessa, Texas, for nearly 12 years. “Our son was [in the U.S.] for university, and we came after a year or two and stayed,” Ogi said. Moving to America changed the couple’s lives and allowed them to live the American dream, Dora said. In Odessa the couple owned a full-service restaurant but moved to McKinney in search of more opportunity, Ogi said. “We think that food is very important for [one’s] health,” Dora said. “We try to cook [with] no preserves, and we use real products. We make everything from scratch.” Dora said she grew up eating and making food with natural ingredients and thinks that processed foods are not good to eat. At Ogi’s, Ogi makes sausages and sandwiches, and Dora makes the bread and an assortment of pastries. Recipes used at the bakery and deli are a collection of family recipes and those created by Dora and Ogi. “My favorite thing to make is sausages,” Ogi said. “I have seven different kinds of my own recipes.” Sandwiches range from a bratwurst burger to a smoked pork sandwich. Pastries at the bakery and deli include baklava, Napolean cake and Berry Cream Cake. “We like to cook,” Dora said. “To cook good is to love. You have to cook with love to be good. All our life we’ve tried to cook to make people happy.” Ogi and Dora said they strive to make people happy and healthy through the food they serve. “Now [guests] can come often to see us to eat good food,” Dora said. “This is very important. We really think that [food] could make you sick and could keep you healthy.”