Baked Potatoes with Sauerkraut (Pečené Zemiaky s Kyslou Kapustou)
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…
Posted by lubos Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010
Categories: Meatless Recipes, Recipes
Ingredients: bacon, caraway, potato, sauerkraut, sour cream
Tenderloin on Cream (Sviečková na Smotane)
Ingredients: about 2lb cut of beef (sirloin, tenderloin or eye round), bacon, 4 carrots, 1 parsley root, 1 onion, 1 stalk of celery, lemon, few caraway seeds, 1 bay leaf, 6 peppercorns, whipping cream, knedľa Prep Time: The way I did, 3 days. Some 3 hours otherwise. You may have noticed that there are not too many meaty dishes on this site. This is not because Slovaks don’t eat meat. On the contrary, meaty foods are actually quite popular. The reason is instead different. It is I who is not a big meat eater. And because of this, I don’t Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Categories: Pork, Beef and Chicken Recipes, Recipes
Ingredients: bacon, bay leaves, beef, black pepper, caraway, carrot, cranberry sauce, lemon, onion, parsley, whipping cream
Cabbage Halusky (Strapačky)
Ingredients: halusky (Slovak potato dumplings), sauerkraut, caraway seeds Prep Time: At least an hour for the kraut to get soft Last weekend the EU embassies here in Washington, D.C. held an open house. Each embassy had some free goodies symbolizing that respective country. Germans had bratwurst, Belgians beer and chocolate, Poles kielbasa. The Slovak embassy cooked up strapačky and served them with cold Slovak Golden Pheasant (zlatý bažant) beer. If you attended this even, and want to try making this simple, yet very traditional dish at home, well you are in luck. Here is (my) recipe for strapačky. About the Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Monday, May 17, 2010
Categories: Pasta, Dumplings and Halusky, Recipes
Ingredients: bacon, bryndza, flour, potato, sauerkraut
Mushroom Soup (Hubová Polievka)
Ingredients: 1oz dried mushrooms (or 8oz fresh ones), 5 cups water, 3 large potatoes, 4 slices thick smoked bacon, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons sour cream, salt Prep Time: 30 minutes My friends Chris and Patricia came for a weekend visit during my 2010 trip to Slovakia. They live in or near Munich. I took them on a short country tour: Bratislava (the capital), Bojnice (fairytale castle and a spa) and Banská Bystrica (my beautiful hometown). And of course, the tour involved much sampling of Slovak food. Chris very much enjoyed the Slovak cuisine, but Patricia was little less impressed. Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Categories: Recipes, Soup Recipes
Ingredients: bacon, flour, mushrooms, potato, sour cream
Bacon Biscuit (Škvarkovník)
Ingredients: 1lb flour, yeast, ground-up bacon bits Prep Time: 30 minutes to an hour for the dough to rise, some 20 minutes to prepare the biscuits, another 20 minutes for dough rising and finally 20 minutes for baking. In Slovakia, we make this amazing bacon-flavored biscuit (pagáč) called škvarkovník. The name is derived for the word for bacon bits, škvarky. When done properly, the biscuits are extremely fluffy and the dough comes apart in layers. I actually like to eat them like that, layer-by-layer. To make these biscuits, you will need ground up bacon bits. These are quite easy to Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Monday, February 22, 2010
Categories: Recipes, Salads, Sides and Bread Recipes
Ingredients: bacon, flour, yeast