Ingredients: bread rolls, butter, honey, jam, hot chocolate Prep Time: 2 minutes You can use the freshly baked rolls (čerstvé rožky) anywhere you would use regular bread. They go great with soups, spreads, and you can even turn them into a butter and cheese sandwich. Another of my favorites is to top them with butter and honey or jam, and make a quick mid-afternoon snack. Such a mid-afternoon meal is called olovrant in Slovak. I feel almost silly posting this simple dish, but then, it shows some differences between Slovak and American cuisines. In Slovakia, we don’t have peanut butter. Read the Rest…
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lubos Date:
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Categories:
Breakfast Dishes and Snacks, Recipes
Ingredients:
bread, butter, cocoa, honey, jam
Ingredients: 2/3 lb soft salami (Bologna, 300g), 1 onion, 1 larger can of sweet peas, 2-3 dill pickles, 8oz sour cream (200g), 3 tbsp mayo Prep Time: 15 minutes Something I always look for on my travels to Slovakia is stopping in a deli for freshly baked bread rolls (called rožky) and some Parisian salad, parížský šalát. Whether this salad has anything to do with Paris is to me a mystery. At least my roommate who grew up in France has never seen something similar to this. Anyway, here is a recipe for this tasty and very simple side dish. Read the Rest…
Ingredients for 8 rolls: 2 cups flour (225g), 1 cup milk (1/4L), 4 tbsp oil (60g), 1 tbsp sugar and 0.5 tbsp of salt, half a packet of yeast Prep time: only about 20 minutes of actual work, two hours to let the dough rise, 20 minutes for baking If you have visited Slovakia, you surely came across little slightly-curved mini baguettes called rožky. These baked bread rolls are a HUGE part of Slovak cuisine. I have no statistics to back this up, but I suspect Slovaks get at least half of their bread in the form of rožky (plural Read the Rest…
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lubos Date:
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Categories:
Recipes, Salads, Sides and Bread Recipes
Ingredients:
flour, milk, oil, yeast
Ingredients: 1.5 cups rice (350 g), 4.2 cups milk (1L), 1/5 stick of butter (20g), 3/4 cups powdered sugar (80g), teaspoon of vanilla extract, 3 eggs, canned cherries or apricots, raisins Prep Time: 2.5 hours, but most of it is “hands off” Here is a recipe for the one meal that to me symbolizes childhood more than any other dish out there. This sweet rice and fruit concoction was on the list of foods rotated in Slovak elementary school lunch cafeterias. Boy, how much did I look forward to the day when ryžový nákyp was one the menu! The rich Read the Rest…
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lubos Date:
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Categories:
Recipes, Sweet Dishes, Kolache and Deserts
Ingredients:
butter, cherries, egg, milk, rice, sugar, vanilla
Ingredients: chicken, 2 lbs salt, side (rice works great) Prep Time: 10 minutes of prep, then 2 hours for baking In this recipe I show you how my mom bakes chicken. This’s got to be the easiest (and tastiest!) chicken recipe ever! Just place the chicken on a bed of salt, stick in the oven, serve. No basting required and all you need is one whole chicken and about 2lbs of salt. 2lbs of salt?? Won’t the chicken be insanely salty? No, not at all. The salt acts to absorb moisture from the air, and the dry air turns the Read the Rest…
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lubos Date:
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Categories:
Pork, Beef and Chicken Recipes, Recipes
Ingredients:
chicken, salt
