Dough: 600g flour, 150g powdered sugar, 2 tbsp cocoa, 3 tbsp honey, 50g (~half a stick) butter, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking soda Filling: 0.5L milk, 5 tbsp corn starch, 250g butter, 1 shot rum, vanilla extract, 1 jar of jam Topping: 200g dark chocolate, 50 g butter Prep Time: Two or three hours of actual work In this recipe, which comes from Varecha.sk, I show you how to make medové rezy, or honey slices. I have never made anything like this before, heck, it was just few weeks ago that I baked my first ever cake. If you had Read the Rest…
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Categories:
Recipes, Sweet Dishes, Kolache and Deserts
Ingredients:
chocolate, cocoa, eggs. sugar, flour, honey, jam, milk, vanilla
Ingredients: cauliflower, eggs, flour, bread crumbs, potatoes and vegetables for the side Prep Time: 30 minutes In this recipe, I show you how to make vyprážaný karfiol, meaning fried cauliflower. This is one of the most popular Slovak vegetarian dishes. It’s totally delicious and super easy to make! Just as with any dish involving frying, be careful when dealing with hot oil so you don’t burn yourself. Start off by peeling potatoes and slicing them into cubes. Let them boil in salted water while you go about making the main dish. It’s so hard to believe that potatoes are relative Read the Rest…
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
Categories:
Meatless Recipes, Recipes
Ingredients:
bread crumbs, cauliflower, egg, flour
Ingredients: one potato, 0.8 lb sauerkraut, 1/6th cup of sour cream (optional), caraway, oil, bacon Prep Time: 10 minutes plus some 30 minutes for baking Today I came back from a four day conference (International Conference on Plasma Sciences in Norfolk, VA) to an empty fridge. An almost empty fridge. Besides one lonely yogurt, some cottage cheese and a stale nut roll, it contained one potato, about half a bag of sauerkraut, and fried bacon bits left over from making cabbage dumplings. In other words, just the right ingredients for making baked potatoes with sauerkraut, the dish from the times Read the Rest…
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Categories:
Meatless Recipes, Recipes
Ingredients:
bacon, caraway, potato, sauerkraut, sour cream
Ingredients: 4 eggs, 400g (3 1/3 cups) powdered sugar, 200ml oil (5/6 cups), 300ml milk (1 1/2 cups), 500g (3 1/3 cups) flour, 12g (2 tablespoons) baking powder, vanilla extract, blueberries or cherries, butter and extra flour to coat the baking pan. Prep Time: 20 minutes to get everything ready, 40 minutes for baking. Yesterday I baked my first-ever cake. It turned out delicious. The name of this cake is bublanina, which means, roughly, bubbly cake. It is a light and fluffy coffee cake filled with your choice of fruit. I used blueberries, but feel free to substitute whatever you Read the Rest…
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Categories:
Recipes, Sweet Dishes, Kolache and Deserts
Ingredients:
baking powder, eggs, flour, fruit, milk, oil, sugar, vanilla
On Tuesday, June 15th, Slovakia will make an appearance in its first-ever World Cup game as an independent country. The 7:30 ET match will pit Slovakia against New Zealand. Do toho, Slovensko! (Let’s go, Slovakia). Thinking of the game I realized I have no idea what could be considered Slovak “game food”. You know, how here in the USA friends get together before football to grill burgers and hot-dogs and drink few cold ones. Well, beer (pivo) is definitely part of game watching in Slovakia. So are salty peanut flavored snacks called chrumky. But to find out more, I asked Read the Rest…
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Categories:
Food
