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Decorated Honey Cookies (Medovníky)

This recipe was sent to me by Margarete Minar, the author of Foreigner’s Guide to Slovakia. Margarete moved to Slovakia when she was 25 to teach English. Although at first she found the life there difficult, she quickly fell in love with Slovakia. “Moving to Slovakia turned out to be one of the most rewarding experiences of my life”, says Ms. Minar. “Now that I have married a Slovak (yes, I met him while I was working there) and have a bunch of wonderful Slovak relatives, I constantly find things that demonstrate the ‘foreignness’ that I still experience, even though Read the Rest…

Cookies (Koláčiky)

Dough: 350g all-purpose flour, 1 packet yeast (30g), 2 yolks, 2 tablespoons powdered sugar, salt, 30g butter, 250 mL milk Filling: farmer’s cheese, raisins, sugar Topping: 100g flour, 100g powdered sugar, 50g butter And here is the last of the three recipes from Alena’s mom kitchen. This time, it’s for little round cookies or koláčiky. This treat shares the sweet dough with the apricot cake and the poppy seed rolls. Roll the dough out and then use a floured drinking glass to cut out circles (like when making pirohy). Then top each with the sweet farmer’s cheese (tvaroh) mixture mixed Read the Rest…

Apricot Cake (Marhuľový Koláč)

Dough: 350g all purpose flour, 1 packet yeast, 2 yolks, 2 tablespoons powdered sugar, salt, 30g butter, 250mL milk Topping: 100g flour, 100g powdered sugar, 50g butter Filling: farmer’s cheese, sugar Here is another deliciously-looking recipe Ala sent in. It’s for an apricot cake, marhuľový koláč. You start it by making the same dough used to make poppy rolls. Then roll the dough out to the size of your baking pan. Top with sweetened farmer’s cheese. Top with apricots and the topping made out of flour. Finally bake at 350F for about 30 minutes. Enjoy!

Poppy Rolls (Makové rožky)

Ingredients: 350g all purpose flour, 1 packet of yeast, 2 yolks, 2 tbsp powdered sugar, salt, 30g butter, 250 ml milk Prep Time: 30 minutes for baking Ala from Žiar nad Hronom sent me another recipe, this time for poppy rolls (makové rožky). Her mom made these and they look delicious! Start by preparing your standard leavened dough from all the ingredients, except for one yolk and the poppy seeds. Once the dough puffs up, roll it out into a circle, and cut into triangular wedges. Then roll these into rolls (just like when making the regular bread rolls), brush Read the Rest…

Chevabchichi (Čevabčiči)

Ingredients: 0.5 lb ground beef, 1 clove garlic, 1/2 tsp black pepper, 1tsp paprika, salt, bread crumbs, side (onion, mustard, potatoes, butter) Prep time: 30 minutes Here is a recipe for a simple meet dish. It’s called čevabčiči, word which doesn’t mean anything at all in Slovak. This dish surely came to Slovakia from overseas, probably somewhere near the Balkans. The day after I made it I went with a friend for lunch to an Iranian kabob restaurant Moby Dick’s, where I ordered “kabob-e-kubideh”. Although it came with rice, these two meals shared much in common! So I asked the Read the Rest…